Comments on: Flash With Transparent Backgrounds

By: ed

ed — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 01:20:52 +0000

thank you for this… ive found so many tutorials explaining how to do this but this is the only one that seems to work!!

thanks for making my day!!

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 09:08:40 +0000

Hi…

The transparent thing was great. But do you have any idea on how to remove the flash which floats on the host html page. If I use a close button and give the code
on (release) {
this.unloadMovie();
}
the swf surely goes away and I see the underlying html page only. But when I rightclick I can find that the ‘About Flash Player 9′ which means the flash still exists. The swf has unloaded and not the flash player which is running the swf. To get the idea you can visit http://www.pixelgenio.com/ongoingprojects/ipgeorgia/dress3.html

If you an solve this for me that would be of great help.
Thanks
Regards
Alex

By: Flash Web Designer

Flash Web Designer — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 09:48:01 +0000

A quicker way if your using CS3, in the properties bar at the bottom of the window, there is a parameters option box. If you click that you can just input wmode and transparent into that.
Sam

By: Adam Freetly

Adam Freetly — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:21:02 +0000

this can also work if you're using swfobject to insert flash, you just need to use wmode:"transparent" when you call the script:


    <script type="text/javascript"> // <![CDATA[
	var flashvars = {};
	var par = { wmode:"transparent" };
    swfobject.embedSWF("<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/test.swf", "flash", "587", "240", "9.0.0", "<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/expressInstall.swf", flashvars, par );
	// ]]>
    </script>

(this code is for wordpress, but you can replace the PHP with absolute or relative paths)