Movie Clip Transparancy (not Alpha)
I am using a movie clip to load and display an image. I need to make a certain color of the image transparent, so you can see whats behind it in the parent movie clip. Anyone know how to do this with actionscript???
Thanks!
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Posted on: 12-07-2004, 09:00 PM
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Alpha Transparancy On SWF Files
I am using one master 'file to load multiple swf's into the file so that I can use these modules to change the information readily and quickly. I am having a slight problem however. When I have all of the files load in, they all seem to work properly, however when they're all loading in at once or even two, it seems that it's only showing whichever is the lowest on the layer order. When that file is in view you can clearly see the 'background' color of the main file, however you cannot see any of the other clips. So it seems that the alpha is working however not all mc's are visible.
they are all being loaded on separate layers into separate clips being created. the code i'm using is as follows (however is different for each clip obviously as to prevent them from loading into the same location.
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this.createEmptyMovieClip("menu_mc", 0);
menu_mc.loadMovie("menucontent.swf", this);
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if anyone has any insight on this I would greatly appreciate it. I attempted searching for an issue like this however had no luck finding anything. if you know of a thread just drop the link.
Thanks a ton!
Wes
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