Flash :: Transparent Movie In Netscape?

Transparent Movie Backgrounds In Netscape And Macs
Hi All,

Is it correct that it's not possible to create a movie in Flash that has a transparent background, enabling the html background upon which the movie sits to be seen through the movie, for Netscape and Macs???

I have tried adding my html background as the bottom layer of the movie but can't get the correct alignment with the surrounding elements of the frame which contains the movie.

Can anyone suggest a way around this problem?

Thanks.
Matt

Transparent Backgrounds In Netscape
can someone please tell me how to make my backgrounds transparent in netscape??? everything is groovy in ie but netscape no so good...check it out at http://www.bonfiretv.com

Transparent Background In NETSCAPE
hey,

plz don't tell me that transparent background is impossible in netscape...we are in 2003.

Macromedia seem to say that its possible, i dl the latest version of flash player and i'm using netscape 7.0

Wmode=transparent In Embed Tag For Netscape
Can anyone help?

I have the beginings of a flash site at: http://www.visualpercepts.net

This works fine in MSIE. However in Netscape 7 when I use the wmode=transparent attribute in the embed tag it causes the menu buttons not work.

The buttons are not flash component buttons but my own creations.
I have tried creating a hit area over them but the problem still persists.

n.b. I have used wmode=transparent because I wanted gradient backgrounds which I have handled in HTML because when using flash gradient backgrounds they seem to slow down processing and the only way I know how to get to view them in flash is to use wmode=transparent.

If I remove the wmode=transparent from the embed tag and use bgcolor instead then the buttons work ok in Netscape so it is definitely a problem with the wmode=transparent attribute.

Can anyone suggest a workaround to solve this problem?

n.b. this site is still under development so menu buttons do not go anywhere except the exit button.

TIA,

Rob Champagne

Transparent Flash In Mozila And Netscape
this works for explorer:
<param name="wmode" value="transparent" />
but it doesnt work in mozila or netscape,does anybody know what tags i need to add for them?

WTF Netscape And Mozilla:Transparent Flash
I am making a site and using div ids and css to do the layout. I have an invisble flash layer on top of a layer with a selectable form and scroll bar. works fine and looks fine in IE. Looks fine in Netscape and Firefox, however I cannot drag click or select anythign beyond the invisible flash layer. ie. it wont let me scroll the texfield below nor select drop downs from the form. It gives me the "no" symbol (circle with a slash through it) Any solutions or is this just one of those unavoidale situations?

WTF? Transparent Flash In Netscape And Mozilla
I am making a site and using div ids and css to do the layout. I have an invisble flash layer on top of a layer with a selectable form and scroll bar. works fine and looks fine in IE. Looks fine in Netscape and Firefox, however I cannot drag click or select anythign beyond the invisible flash layer. ie. it wont let me scroll the texfield below nor select drop downs from the form. It gives me the "no" symbol (circle with a slash through it) Any solutions or is this just one of those unavoidale situations?

Transparent Flash Layer Div Problem In Netscape 7
I have a site that works fine in IE,
wherein i have a flash movie layered over top of html iframes (floating frames)
strangely, in Netscape 7, with flash 7, I get a problem where the page is displayed as it should be with the zindex of the layer with flash IS on top, WITH transparency....However, the buttons do not seem to work in either the scrollbars or content in the html, nor the flash buttons... (well... one does some reason....the spinning color wheel in the upper right hand corner)
but the concrete slab buttons in the site get no hand cursor even!

visit the page with IE and see how it should work
then visit it with NS7 and see the problem...
http://www.karmakat.ca/cbe

strangest thing is... it was working earlier today and now it doesn't!

Plz help... this is the last major hurdle before this site goes live... thx....

Transparent Background Doesn't Work In Netscape
hi,

i inserted a flash movie with the following code.

<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=5,0,0,0" width="550" height="90" wmode="transparent">
          <param name=movie value="flash/Newsticker.swf">
          <param name=quality value=high>
          <param name=wmode value=transparent>
          <embed src="flash/Newsticker.swf" quality=high pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="550" height="90" wmode="transparent">
          </embed>

according to other threads, this should work...but it doesn't in netscape, there's a white background to the movie. what's wrong with the code?
tnx in advance
adrian

Transparent Flash Layer Problem In Netscape 7 And Probably Mac Browsers
i have a transparent flash layer problem in netscape 7
and prolly macs too

I have a site that works fine in IE,
wherein i have a flash movie layered over top of html iframes (floating frames)
strangely, in Netscape 7, with flash 7, I get a problem where the page is displayed as it should be with the zindex of the layer with flash IS on top, WITH transparency....However, the buttons do not seem to work in either the scrollbars or content in the html, nor the flash buttons... (well... one does some reason....the spinning color wheel in the upper right hand corner)
but the concrete slab buttons in the site get no hand cursor even!

visit the page with IE and see how it should work
then visit it with NS7 and see the problem...
http://www.karmakat.ca/cbe

strangest thing is... it was working earlier today and now it doesn't!

Plz help... this is the last major hurdle before this site goes live... thx....

Transparent Flash Layer Problem In Netscape 7 And Probably Mac Browsers
transparent flash layer problem in netscape 7
I have a site that works fine in IE,
wherein i have a flash movie layered over top of html iframes (floating frames)
strangely, in Netscape 7, with flash 7, I get a problem where the page is displayed as it should be with the zindex of the layer with flash IS on top, WITH transparency....However, the buttons do not seem to work in either the scrollbars or content in the html, nor the flash buttons... (well... one does some reason....the spinning color wheel in the upper right hand corner)
but the concrete slab buttons in the site get no hand cursor even!

visit the page with IE and see how it should work
then visit it with NS7 and see the problem...
http://www.karmakat.ca/cbe

strangest thing is... it was working earlier today and now it doesn't!

Plz help... this is the last major hurdle before this site goes live... thx....

Movie Not Loaded In Netscape 4.7
My movie works in IE6, Netscape6 but not Netscape 4.7. When I right click over the space, I get the message 'Move not lodaed'. Can someone tell me what I need to do to get a Flash movie working for both IE and Netscape? Thanks.

Why Does My Movie Not Work In Netscape?
Why does my movie not work in Netscape but does in everything else?

Movie Won't Load In IE But Does In Netscape Why? Help
please help me real quick? I made an eyeball movie for my website that loads after the _root movie loads. There's a button at half alpha of it that loads the eyeball when you rollover it. It works perfect in Netscape but doesn't work at all in IE. i tried it on my Mac IE and on my PC IE too! below is my code:
Code:
on (rollOver) {
loadMovieNum("eye.swf",1);
_root.play();
}

I put the _root.play(); in there so the main movie goes forward one frame and i get rid of the the loader alpha button. below is a link to my site so you can see it, but again, it only works in netscape it seems and i can't figure out why.
http://www.threebrain.com
if the eyeball does work on your IE hollaaa at me too and tell me. I'd appreciated. weird! stuff usually works in IE but not netscape

Movie Background Only On Netscape Not IE?
My movie background color is only visible on netscape, not IE. When I button is clicked the movie scrolls and has a bounce to it, so when it bounces on IE you see white in the bg but on netscape it is the dk brown color it should be. Is there anything I can do about this? Thanks.

Is There A Load Movie & Netscape Issue?
hey everyone...
i have just built a site which is made up of a number of separate swfs which are loaded into a MC when needed.
the site rocks along in IE but nothing happens in netscape.
anyone know what the story is??
thanks.
jodie.

Help::::::load Movie Not Working In Netscape?
I've done a swf movie, there are some sub movie load into the main movie. It works fine in IE. but in netscape (4.6). the load movies doesn't work!

Why is this and how can I make it work?
thank you very much for any bodycan help!

Does Netscape 6.2 Slow Down A Movie's Execution?
Are there any known issues with a movie's frame rate and the netscape browser? A movie that plays smoothly in Internet Explorer 5.1 (Mac) seems slow on Netscape 6.2 (Mac). Sufficient memory has been allocated to both browsers and no other programs are active; using a 400Mhz G4.

Thanks.

My Movie Tests Ok In IE6, But Not In NETSCAPE...wassup?
I made a page for my movie in Dreamweaver, and I test it in Netscape and i got nothing....please help???

My Movie Works In Ie But Doesn't In Netscape
Can you help me?
Thanks...
C

Movie Plays In I.E. But Not In Netscape Or Opera... Help
This is scary...
I have an intro movie at http://ambaji.com.au
It works fine in IE5 Opera6.1 and Netscape6.
There is a link 30 sec into this movie that goes to a full music version of the same movie.
IE runs it fine but Opera and Netscape just freeze on what may be the blank first frame of the new movie. Arghhh!

I dont know if this has anything to do with the new movie being set up so that it loads layer 1 and then calls for a much larger (1150kb) movie in layer 2. As I said it works fine in Internet Explorer though.

I cant think why Opera and Netscape would handle the no music 760kb version well but balk at the 1150kb 2 layered music version.

Any clues anyone??

Thanks

Loading Movie Clips In IE Vs Netscape
I have just uploaded my company's website and noticed something odd when I tried it in IE (Mac, version 5.1 and on our old PC). The portfolio section is in 5 different swfs, each set up to load/unload in an empty movie clip. IE sometimes shows the preloader but the actual portfolio pieces do not appear when the corresponding buttons are clicked. This worked perfectly well on my computer before I uploaded it. The odd thing is that it works fine when I try it in Netscape 7. Any thoughts as to why this is happening? Could it be because the preloader for each portfolio swf is in a separate scene? I've been hearing bad things about scenes in this forum...

The website is www.blackcatcommunications.ca

• click on Portfolio
• click on a button on the right
• click on a button on the top left
• a piece *should* appear in the empty white space, but doesn't in IE

Many, many, many thanks!
Michelle

Flash Movie Not Playing In Netscape 4
Hi there:

I created a flash movie really simple picture swapping with fading in and out. It plays on Explorer fine. It does not play on Netscape 4 on the Mac or PC. This is for a college website so we need it to work on Netscape 4. Alot of people still have not updated there Netscape.

I published it by choosing to save as a Flash 4 version. It was created in Flash MX.

I have done a little movie in WildFx or text and that works fine in Netscape 4. Why does a swf created in WildFx or Swish work and not Flash MX.

It doesn't even prompt the user to update to Flash 6.

Please help,
Patti

Movie Displays Very Small Or Is Cut Off In Netscape 7.1; OK In IE On OSX 2.8
Hi all,

Wonder if anyone else has encountered this and if so, how they fixed it.

The movie's publish settings are:

Flash Player 5 (although it was created in MX 2004 Professional)
Dimensions are set to percent with 100 width and height.
Scale is default

At the following URL, the movie displays at a quarter of its size: http://www.susanprager.com/test/McKinney/McK_spl1.html

It seems to work properly at this URL although it is not set to scale:
http://www.susanprager.com/test/McKinney/McK_spl1a.html

At this URL, it scales but the bottom half of the movie seems to be obscured by another element and I cannot tell what’s going on in Dreamweaver. It is not in a table. I tried another version in a table but there is only one tr and td defined and the same problem occurs.

http://susanprager.com/test/McKinney/McK_ss_test.html

Another developer suggested that I try linking to the .swf directly and that that would work, which it did:

http://susanprager.com/test/McKinney/McK_spl1.swf

However, I am loathe to link to an .swf because without the .html Word doesn’t recognize it as a link, for starters, and I don’t know what other ramifications there will be.

Your thoughts are most appreciated.

Ay caramba,
Susan

External Movie Loads In Netscape But Not IE Help
please help me real quick? I made an eyeball movie for my website that loads after the _root movie loads. There's a button at half alpha of it that loads the eyeball when you rollover it. It works perfect in Netscape but doesn't work at all in IE. i tried it on my Mac IE and on my PC IE too! below is my code:
Code:
on (rollOver) {
loadMovieNum("eye.swf",1);
_root.play();
}
I put the _root.play(); in there so the main movie goes forward one frame and i get rid of the the loader alpha button. below is a link to my site so you can see it, but again, it only works in netscape it seems and i can't figure out why.
http://www.threebrain.com
if the eyeball does work on your IE hollaaa at me too and tell me. I'd appreciated. weird! stuff usually works in IE but not netscape

Print Flash Movie In Netscape 8
Flash movie reference in html/asp page. The movie is a report/line graph, similar to how I use Crystal Reports in VB.

The html and Flash movie print / print preview in IE 6/7.

The html prints / print preview, with vertical space for Flash movie in Netscape. The Flash movie does NOT print!

Flash Movie Transparency In Netscape
is there a way for netscape browsers to support flash movie transparency...
for IE,the technique is used by "tweaking" the EMBED tags,ryt?
when i run it in netscape...transparency is OFF
any way to solve this issue?

Publishing Flash Movie In Netscape
I've published a flash movie that goes into my html page, which works fine and all the commands work when I open the html file in Internet Explorer, but when I click on the link through Netscape, it just shows binary code.

Is there are a way I can make sure it publishes properly in both brousures?

Netscape 7: Javascript Won't Control Movie.
I'm trying make my movies work with Netscape 7.
To this end, I've created an incredibly simple looping swf.
In my <object> tag, I've told the player not to play the movie automatically when it loads.
My next step is to have Javascript use the play() method to start the movie.  I'm assuming that if I can do this, everything else will fall into place.

The behavior that I'm seeing is that the object objFlash is assigned the object, put the play() call makesNS grumble, "objFlash.play is not a function".

Any help would make me very happy.

Here's my code (all of it):

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>AAARRRGGHH!!!!</TITLE>

<script language = "javascript">
objFlash = new Object;
function init() {
    objFlash = document.myFlash;
    alert(objFlash);
    objFlash.play();
}

</script>

</HEAD>
<BODY  bgcolor="#FFFFFF">

<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="testmov.swf" width="366" height="142" id="myFlash">
<param name="play" value="false">
<param name="swliveconnect" value="true">

<script language = "javascript">
init();
</script>

</BODY>
</HTML>

FLash Movie Not Showing Up In Netscape>?
I was wondering if there were any known reasons why my flashmovie won't show up in Netscape. I'm using a regular embed statement, and for some reason it won't show up even when the user downloads the newest flash plugin.

Any help would be great...take care!

Load Movie To Different Levels Do Not Work With Netscape 4.5
Hi,

I have a main movie and can load many external swf into various levels. It can be played correctly online if I used IE5.

The problem is that some of the external movies that use the following script on a button did not work.

on (press) {
loadmovienum (external.swf, 2);
unloadmovienum (3);
}

Will Netscape 4.5 be different from IE5 in terms of viewing Flash 5 movie?

Anyone knows where is the problem that I encountered?

Thanks

net2

Menu (movie Clip) Won't Work In Netscape
my navigation isn't working in netscape but it works in explorer. the navigation is a movie clip that control the main timeline of the different scences. i've been using each of these codes on different occassions but they still won't work in netscape. what should i do?

*Codes that have been used:

on (release){
_root.gotoAndPlay(information);

on (release){
gotoAndPlay ("info, "information")

on (release){
tellTarget ("_root"){
gotoAndPlay ("info, information")

on (release){
tellTarget (_root){
gotoAndPlay ("info", "information")

on (release){
tellTarget ("_root.MenuMC"){
gotoAndPlay ("info", "information")

on (release){
_root.gotoAndPlay ("info", "information")

on (release){
_root.gotoAndPlay (info, information)

*info is my scene
information is my frame label
navigation movieclip instance is MenuMC

thanks
helen
http://www.helengriffin.com

Problem With Flash Movie Loading In Netscape 4x
Hi,

I have made a website using Flash MX and during the cross browser testing. The site works in almost all browsers but I encountered a strange problem in Netscape 4.7, it seems that flash is not executing some of the action scripts properly.

In the site I am calling external swfs and jpgs, which get loaded fine in all other browsers (even in Netscape 6.2 or higher) but not in Netscape 4x. The problem is that the swf or jpg gets loaded in the browser’s cache but doesn’t show up in the movie.

Following is the code that creates the problem :

loadMovie("tree.swf", "/treetmp");
if (_root.treetmp.getBytesLoaded() == _root.treetmp.getBytesTotal()) {
gotoAndPlay(4);
}

I got the bytes displayed on the screen, both got same as the file got loaded but still it doesn’t execute the GotoAndPlay action.

This code creates a problem only in Netscape 4x and not in any other browser.

Very strange problem. Please advice.

Load Movie Doesn't Work In Netscape
We have a Flash movie that works fine in netscape but at the end of it we have a button with a Load Movie action on it so that when you click the button it loads a new movie. This works fine in IE but not not in Netscape.

Any ideas why not?

[Using Flash MX]

Flash Movie Crashes Firefox And Netscape
Hi all,

I've been looking all over and find other people with some problem like this, but no solutions/facts.

When I run this one SWF that calls in an XML document from a PHP file, and then pulls up content according to that file, Mozilla browsers are hanging up and crashing. Safari, IE and Opera aren't bothered by the movie, but Firefox and Netscape give this warning after loading a couple of bytes of data:

"The plugin performed an illegal operation."

Sometimes, though, Netscape or Firefox will work correctly for a single or a few loads of the movie and then start hanging again.

Any ideas as to what could cause this? Thanks a billion.

Problems Viewing A Flash Movie With Netscape
Hello,

I am having a problem. My flash movie is being displayed well when I use Internet Explorer, but when I use netscape I cannot see nothing.

I don't have any clue of what is the problem, I will really apreciate if someone can give me some clues on what to check.

Thank you very much!

Trouble With Netscape (Damn Netscape 4.7)
http://eservices.no-ip.com/clients/abcfood/

Pls check the link above with netscape
There is a spacing above the 2 flash animation (not developed yet)

I'm wondering if anyone can help me

Netscape 4.7 For Mac Keeps Crashing My Flash Movie And My Preloader Won't Work?
I have been testing my flash movie, and when testing it on Netscape 4.7 for a Mac it keeps crashing and closing the browser. I really didn't think there was much complexity to the flash movie for it not to work properly cross platform. This is how the movie works.
A splash page appears(splash page preloads external .swfs in the background), you click a button to load the intro,(which is a javascript popup window) when the intro is finished it automatically loads the home page into the current window.
My preloader, which i have removed the percent loaded, does not work, neither does the
Bytes Loaded
Kilobyes Loaded
Total Kilobytes loaded
Netscape sucks s$%#! Does anyone have some advice on how to deal with Netscape 4.7 or the problem I'm encountering?

How Do I Fit Swf Movie In Netscape/mozilla Browser Window Proportionally?
Hi,

I have 1 swf file in my html page.
I want to fit this flash swf movie in the browser window proportionally, so that if the visitors resize their browser window the swf file also resizes itself to fit the window's size proportionally.
I know how to do this in MS internet explorer but the same method doesn't work in Netscape or Mozilla browsers.
Does anyone know how to accomplish this in Netscape or Mozilla browsers?

Netscape Doesn't Show Full Sized Flash Movie
I used java function explained in Flash tutorials for opening full screen scroller free browser. It works so fine with IE but when I tried opeing the same with Netscape the movie gets loaded in 200 x 300 pixels (very small compared to the real size 800 x 600 pixels(thats original size)

could anyone explain why does that happen?

regards,
'rabi

Transparent Movie?
hi!

how can I get a transparent swish-movie into Frontpage?

The transfer of a normal movie with bg-color is no problem, but how can I get am movie, where I can see the bg-picture of my Frontpage-site (a transparent movie)?

Help me!!! :-(

Sophisma

(I'm sorry for my english!)

Transparent Movie In Netscape?

I know how to publish my movie and have it transparent...but why is it not transparent in Netscape???Is there something i need to add to the object code?Please help, I am so close to finishing this project!!!Thanks in advance!

I know how to publish my movie and have it transparent...but why is it not transparent in Netscape???

Is there something i need to add to the object code?

Please help, I am so close to finishing this project!!!

Thanks in advance!