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[CS3] How Do I Change The HTML Background Image From Flash?
Hi,

I'm new to the whole forum thing, but i'm running out of ideas of how to resolve this issue.

I've created a transparent flash movie, for a new portfolio website. I've dropped it into an html page with a full bg image (2000x1500) but i want to change the html bg image each time i click on a new area of the flash movie.

Can this be done? I know it requires javascript and actionscript, but as a designer i am having a real hard time trying to find any solutions or understanding any code thats out there.

Please help if you can...

Cheers in advance.

Changing An HTML Background Image From Flash
Hi all,

I am building a site right now that gives the users the option to change the color scheme of the site.

The problem I am running into is my footer an image outside of flash as the background colour of a table.

Is there a way that I can create some sort of function in flash that speaks with the html of the page to change that table cell's background image? I assume it would be javascript if it's possible.

Html Background Image Covered By Flash Stage
http://rufushale.com/test.html for example.

I am using Flash Pro 8 and DW 8 on ibook g4.

The problem is that i cannot seem to prevent the Flash "stage" from taking up most of the screen, covering the bg image, which is the green stripes. It does not matter how small I make the stage in Flash.

Here is the page code:

<html>
<head>
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="Assets/Images/favicon.ico" >
<title>test</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<script language="JavaScript">


function MM_findObj(n, d) { //v4.0
var p,i,x; if(!d) d=document; if((p=n.indexOf("?"))>0&&parent.frames.length) {
d=parent.frames[n.substring(p+1)].document; n=n.substring(0,p);}
if(!(x=d[n])&&d.all) x=d.all[n]; for (i=0;!x&&i<d.forms.length;i++) x=d.forms[i][n];
for(i=0;!x&&d.layers&&i<d.layers.length;i++) x=MM_findObj(n,d.layers[i].document);
if(!x && document.getElementById) x=document.getElementById(n); return x;
}
function createWindow(cUrl,cName,cFeatures) {
var xWin = window.open(cUrl,cName,cFeatures)
}

//-->
</script>
<style type="text/css">

</style>
</head>

<body bgcolor="#FFFFCC">
<div align="center">
<object classid="clsid27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,29,0" width="100%" height="100%">
<param name="movie" value="test3.swf">

<param name="quality" value="high">
<embed src="test3.swf" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="100%" height="100%"></embed>
</object>
</div>

</body>
</html>

Flash Movie As A Background Image?
hi everyone.

do you know if its possible to have a flash movie as a background?
i want to have an animation in the back ground whilst an html shopping cart is ontop... is this possible?

everything is contained within a table, but wondered how i go about actually setting the file in the background.
cheers.

Flash Movie Background Image
Hi Everybody,

Can I, in my Flash movie, place in a background a small gif image who will repeat itself like when I do in Dremaweaver a background image?

I would like to do this because I think the .swf file will be smaller. I dont want to put a big image on the bakground or my movie will be to heavy.

Do you have a trick to do this?

Thanks all !

Flash Movie As A Background In An HTML Page
Abit new to flash.
I have made a swf that I want to play in the background of an HTML page while other HTML elements are on top, image buttons, etc. (I cant make the other elements flash due to some other issues in the enviroment I am designing this for at this time.) But it seems no matter what I do, the flash movie cant have anything on top of it. I have tried as a seperate frame in the background and as an embedded object at a lower layer number.

Is it even possible, and if so any hints or help to get that to work?

Thanks for any suggestions, much appreciated.

Flash Movie As Background In Html Page
Is there any way to have a flash movie as a background for a regular html page? I would like to have an animated background behind a page that is created in dreamweaver. The page will have pictures and text.

Static Background Image With Flash Movie In Middle
How would I go about setting up a site like this one?

http://www.takingbacksunday.com/whereyouwanttobesite/

I want to have a normal repeating .jpg for the background, with the content centered in the middle.

I'm sure its a very simple answer, but I'm just curious.

Is There Anyway For A Flash Movie To Make The Background On An Html File Invisible?
Is there a way for the flash movie to make the background on an html file invisible, then later visible? I am trying to achieve this effect www.towardthesky.com where after you enter there is no background image during the preload, but when the main movie plays and it is the same html file, the background is visible.

Html Background Image?
How would you do a background like this and make it line up with the flash movie? -----> EXAMPLE Woul I use CSS or what? Thanks for the help!

Can SWF File Be Background HTML Image?
Hello everyone,
Can an SWF file be used as a background image in a HTML source?
Thanks

Background Image Question (HTML)
Hi, I'm trying to achieve creating a Flash movie which has its background set to transparent, then having a background image loaded into the HTML. (Partly inspired by being impressed with a similar effect on Less Rain

I am just about to grips with basic HTML & my transparent movie works fine on top of the image. The problem I have is that the 800 x 600 background image begins to tile on the edges of the page. Does anyone know how I can make the HTML auto-size the backgrond image to fit the entire browser please?

Alternatively, are there ways of getting Flash to embed an image instead of a colour as the background? I use both Flash 5 & 8 depending on project- though I'm relatively intermediate on both.

Hope someone can help, thanks in advance

Hiab-x

Background Image For The Published Html
hi guys...super basic, i know. i even looked around the forums, google, etc with no luck (likely cause i just didn't know how to verbalize this). I am curious how to create a background with gradient onto my published html. Must it be an image in the body tag (<body background="image.png">)? i tried this but no luck. I'm hoping the answer may avoid an image for these reasons:

1-i don't know how big the image will need to be
2-it takes longer to load
3-it looks funny trying to fit the flash movie ontop of the image...it's not smooth

any thoughts? thanks

Adding A Background Image With HTML?
Just a quick one. Want to add a background image to the html of a flash site so the background image can scale and the content of the flash site not scale. Any ideas anyone??

Thanks all!

Background Color Change From Swf To HTML-image
I've been having problems with some color changes.

The background picture in the flash movie has a color which is similar to that of a picture that lies in a scaleable HTML-table beside the swf in the indexpage.

The problem is that on lowres/low color monitors, you can see the transition from swf to the HTML table. There's a slight color change that is only visible on low color monitors.

How can I avoid that? Does anybody know that...

Image Maps And Embedding HTML Onto Flash Movie
I know how tto embed a Flash movie into an HTML page. How do i embed an HTML page into a Flash move?

I created an image map in HTML because i didnt know how to do it in Flash5.
The rest of the movie is done in Flash, including the navigation bar. The Flash-implemented navigation bar on the top of the page remains static. When a link is clicked, various movie clips are loaded in the bottom 3/4 (main body) of the page . Is there a way to load the HTML page (with image map) into the main body of my page when the relavant link is clicked? Or is there an alternate way of doing this (say, like converting the image map into a Flash movie clip?)
Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!
Debbie

Backgorund Image In Html & Flash Movie Problem
i have a problem....
I have a html page with bacground image and inserted flash project that is transparent. everithing o.k.
BUT!!!!
mozzila and iexplorer are displaying different !!!!
I have a image in background of html page in one image in flash and i can see, that mozilla is displaying this image in flash 1 pixel in -y direction, iexplorer displayed o.k.!
that means, if i open the same page in mozilla or explorer i dont get 100% the same picture!
Any idea???
Fresh ales

Upload Image To Flash Movie From Html Form
Any ideas (or links to threads/tutorials) on how to have a running flash movie provide an option to upload an image. I would like to use a pop up window with a html form with upload file field, upon submitting, the window closes and the image is uploaded into the flash movie.

My initial thought is to uses a loadvar.load directed at the html form URL and have the form pass the path to the recently uploaded image, which will need to be be uploaded to a temp directory on the server. Then the image is loaded to an empty movieclip.

Does that sound like the way to go or does someone have a better idea?
Thanks

HTML Background Matching Flash Background
Hey, I have a flash website that opens as a pop up, the pop auto fullscreens. The background in the flash document is a gradient, and I have a gradient in the background of the html. My question is how would I get the background of the HTML to always match up with the flash background using a percentage?

www.flippingsweet.net/index2.html

Load Movie Over A Background Image
Hello all:

I am a little confused as I have seen this done before. I am trying to load different pics (as external swfs)over a background that exists in another loaded movie.

I have a main movie which loads 2 movies (one on the right side and one on the left). The right side displays various pictures depending on what the user clicks on the left. BUT, the file sizes are huge and I wanted to load each picture seperately over the movie loaded in the left.

I hope this doesn't sound confusing! I am basically trying to load each picture as a different swf over a background that exists in another movie.

PLEASE HELP as I KNOW IT CAN BE DONE!

Cheers in advance,
Jag

Dynamic Image For Movie Background
Hi, I'm using an image for the background of my flash movie (in my website) and i want one of four images to randomly load whenever the page is refreshed. That is I want a different one of the four images i specify to load whenever someone new comes into the site. Can anyone help?

Making An Image Background Transparent On Movie
I am making some images fly across a movie in my flash project. I need to view only the actual part of the image, not its background. I tried drawing my image in photoshop onto a transparent background and then bringing it into flash, but that doesnt work.....its makes the background white instead of carrying the transparency.

Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

HTML Help..center My Movie And Keep Background Color
I'm trying to create an html index page that will both center my site and maintain color throughout the whole page.

Regarding the color thing, when you first open the site, which has a black background, you momentarily see a blank white space until the movie/site loads. I want to get rid of this white space by designating it to be "#000000" but I"m not sure how to do this.

look at www.larettedesign.com to see what I mean.

Any suggestions?
Thanks
Furpants

Small Background Image Repeated Over Movie Size?
hi guys, does anyone knows the way to repeat a small image over the whole size of a movie?

Flash As A Background Image
HEy all,

Anyone know if its possible to have a flash animation
playing as a background image?

and if so is it stable and how is it done?

It would be so awsome to have!

Anyone got any comments?

Flash Swf As A Background Image
this would be incredible if I could use a swf as a background image in either html or css. Anyone know if it can be done? Or does anyone know a workaround. I am trying to (i know it may be against the rules) make a simple rounded rectangle with some attnetion getting animation that surrounds the google ad. When I insert flash it moves the javascript down. This may actually be legal since I am not directly telling the user to to click the links, just using the flash as layout. Thanks

http://flashmailforms.com

Background Image In Flash.
I am in the process of putting together my own site. Currently I have a background image in my html that repeats horizontally and vertically. I then placed my Flash movie on top of the page and set the background of the Flash movie to be transparent. It looks great and works but, unfortunately, the transparent background combined with my animations are a little too processor intensive.

So my question is, how can I place a background image in my Flash movie so that it will cover entire browser background (a.k.a. tile) without being processor intensive? Also, I'm trying to avoid using an enormous image for the background.

BTW: This weeks site of the month seems to be pulling it off. http://layouts.drawingart.org/

Flash 8 Background Image
hi i was hopeing someone could help me with flash 8, i have a image i want to set as the background but it doesnt fill the background!!! there is still white areas
i have used the linkage option and it still doest fill the page when on the browser can anyone help??

Flash As Background On Html
I would like to know how is possible to add a flash movie as a background in a html site already with text and imagens...
Thanks so much...

Flash Background In HTML
Hey all,

A background in html is an image that is tilled to seamlessly fill the screen...right?

So...
Is it Possible to have my background as a swf??
Scaled to 100%, it surly could cover the entire background of the site, with endless motion. eg. bubbles...or wind...

has anyone done this?
or CAn some one tell me how?

thanks everyone!

Background In Flash And HTML
Hello,

i am just posting my web site and i got a big problem.

My flash movie has areas where there it is empty. So i want those areas to get the same texture as the background which i use for the page where that flash movie is inserted.

I tryied to insert an image in flash but it doesn't look perfect in the transition. Do u know how to solve this?

Thank You,
Miguel

Flash As HTML Background
Hi,

I know this has been covered before, but I can't get the suggested methods to work. I have followed the instructions from here: http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flash5/dhtmlflash.htm
I basically want to do the opposite of that, i.e. I want the Flash under the text, not on top of it. I thought I could just change the Zindex of the Flash to 0, or -1, but it didn't work.

I'm using Flash MX 2004 Pro, although I doubt that makes much difference as I think the solution will lie in the HTML.

Thanks.

Using Flash As A Background In Css Html
Is it possible to use a .swf for a background in an xhtml/css file and then put text and other <div>'s over top of it? If so, are there any browser limitations?

Don't Want Flash Doc Background In Html
Could someone please help me

I have a flash document swf and html to export into dreamweaver.
In flash document dimensions are set to 1280 by 1024.
This what my display properties sceen resolution is set to.
I have the flash movie set to the same size as the document but when I publish and open the html in dreamweaver there is the document background color around the swf movie. No matter what settings i use there still is a 5 pixels odd of document background which looks like a border.
I have tried to adjust in the publish settings dialog box the Dimensions settings to 100% and also scale. No luck. etc
How do I get rid of the background . I would like the swf to take up all of the width of the html page. No borders.

Thanks for your help
Tiaka

Html/css Background Flash Help
I seriously need some help. I am somewhat new to flash and need some help as soon as possible (ANY REPLY will be greatly appreciated). I submitted an earlier post under the topic "masking a fading image," but no one has replied (I didn't mean for it to sound ignorant or retarded, but I'm just trying to find the right words to accomplish what I'm trying to do. I will break the entire task down into more appropriate topics and take it one step at a time.

My first step is as follows: I've created a flash movie file that I would like to set as the background in an html page. Is this possible? I do know when I publish the flash as a transparent web page, I can view the source, copy that, and integrate it into the html page I want to create (with a background color ="#000000") as long as the flash file is saved within the directory of the web content. However, the code (since it is transparent) seems to be just placed on the html page (on the foreground), and the animation will hover over any links or pics that are also place within the page. Is there a way to set the whole flash file in the background of the html page, so it doesn't seem to hover over other content? Thank you ahead of time.

Joe

Flash As HTML Background
Is it possbiel to make flash as a html background?

well.. this is what i typed in

Code:
<embed src="main.swf" style="postion:absolute; left:0px; top:0px;">
it did show up however my minline frame covered the flash even though ive set the alpha of the inline frame to 75.. it should be a little opaque.. anywayz i need help! Thanks

Flash Background In HTML?
Is is possible to have an .swf file as a background in an HTML file so that it covers the users browser 100%? I am able to get the background as 100% scalable but I am having a hard time figuring out how to add tables and content to it? I would like for it to be compatible in IE and FireFox. Heres a snippet of the div tag and swf settings.

Sorry if this is the wrong category for this thread and thanks in advance.

This is placed in between my body tags.

<div id="branding" style="position:absolute; left:0px; top:21px; width:100%; height:100%; z-index:199; visibility: visible; background-color: #FFFFFF; layer-background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 1px none #000000;">
<object classid="clsid27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="https://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,0,0" height="100%" hspace="0" vspace="0" width="100%">
<param name="loop" value="false">
<param name="menu" value="false">
<param name="movie" value="bg_login.swf">
<param name="quality" value="high">

<embed src="bg_login.swf" height="100%" hspace="0" loop="false" menu="false" quality="high" pluginspage="https://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" vspace="0" width="100%"/>
</object>

</div>

Using A Flash Movie As A Background Image In HTML?

I want to use a flash movie as a background image in HTML. Can this be done? If so, how do I make it happen. I've tried various solutions, but no luck so far. Thanks in advance for the help.Josh

I want to use a flash movie as a background image in HTML. Can this be done? If so, how do I make it happen. I've tried various solutions, but no luck so far. Thanks in advance for the help.

Josh