RE: FLASH: Transparency in Flash (Not what you think!)

[Len Harrison]

Yeah, it's doable for IE 4&5 PC only (choose 'transparent windowless' in the

Shockwave tab of Aftershock). Limits page compatibility significantly,

though. Worse yet, runs like a tired snail if it's anything much bigger than

a postage stamp. Better option is to set the image of your left side bar as

the background for your Flash movie and then position the movie so that it

overlays the background seamlessly. Best way to do that is with CSS if you

can spec supporting browsers for your project. Otherwise tables and

transparent .gifs. Be sure to set browser offset to nothing using

cross-browser tags in your body tag or frameset otherwise you'll never be

able to achieve this.


len harrison

instructional designer

lenhabtcorp [dot] com

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From: ownershocker [dot] com [ownershocker [dot] com]On">mailto:ownershocker [dot] com]On Behalf Of Trey

> Causey

> Sent: Friday, December 11, 1998 7:33 PM

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To: flashershocker [dot] com

> Subject: FLASH: Transparency in Flash (Not what you think!)

>

>

> Hey Flashers:

>

> I was wondering if there's a way to somehow get Flash movies to be

> "transparent" on top of an HTML document. For instance, let's

> say I have a

> typical left side "bar" as my background (i.e. c|net). I want

> to use Flash

> for my navigation buttons, and have it overlay halfway onto

> the bar and

> halfway onto the rest of the document. Since the "bar" won't

> be a solid

> color, I need to figure out how to "see through" the Flash document in

> certain places.

>

> That's way oversimplified, but I think ya'll know what I

> mean. If you need

> further clarification, please drop me a line! This is driving me nuts!

>

> -Trey.

>

>

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