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So far everything new is great and I'm very glad (since I live in France) with the support for accented caracters :) . But I can't make the flash animation backround transparent for the web. I had this same problem with the animated gifs, but Egg solved that for me (us).
See thread http://www.talkgraphics.com/showthre...286#post170286 This trick doesn't work with the flash animations though. What am I doing wrong? :(
Marcia,
That's not possible. Suprisingly even Flash can't do transparent backgrounds.
:D
Tell me Raymond !!!
Btw I made a nice little flash animation with the text above, but I don't know how to insert it in a post...:o (like you did) I pasted this path: F:\Documents and Settings\Marcia en JP\Mijn documenten\tell me.swf, but it doesn't work. Can you explain?
Click 'quote' to see the code ..Quote:
Originally Posted by MarciaB
Yes, but how did you know this code? I'm talking about Inserting an image and when you click on the icon you have to insert the URL of this image...
Btw I know how to insert links and attachements, that's easy.
I don't get it, sorry :o
Marcia
Make your background the same color as the page background.
This is more difficult if you have a patterned background but it can work if the background pattern is random enough.
Gary
Right click on your attachment - select 'properties' in the resulting drop-down menu and the url you need is at the bottom of that menu.Quote:
Originally Posted by MarciaB
Marcia, you can't link a file from your own computer.
The best way to do it is to attach the swf file to your post.
Save it.
Right click over the swf file link and select properties.
This gives you the talkgraphics url.
Select & copy this url.
Now go back and edit your post.
See the attachment below, this is what you need to type in.
It consists of open square bracket flash = url close square bracket quality=best width=Enter the required width height=Enter the required height open square bracket /flash close square bracket
I can't enter the code as it is as you wouldn't see it.
Gary: Thanks, but I already did that as you can see...
Raymond : now tell me how I can cheat, as my little flash movie says! Or did you mean what Gary wrote about the backround making the same colour?
Egg: This is what I meant, thank you :)
Yup, make the background the same colour as the page on which it is to be placed like wot you did.Quote:
Originally Posted by MarciaB
I often do that with animated gifs as well especially for my own site so when folks nick 'em they are browned off when they find they have a 'orrible yellow backgound which doesn't fit in with their own colour scheme.
I choose my colours for a reason ..
My flash and html knowledge are nonexistent, but I did remember something called wmode=transparent. It's supposed to make flash animations exhibit a transparent background when it appears on the top of your webpage. Perhaps someone more experienced can shed more light on this?
OK, here's a quickie html page cooked up in PI. I embedded the swf file used in this topic. It came out non-transparent on the generated page. Added the parameter wmode and value "transparent" after the head tags, then added the wmode="transparent" on the properties of the embedded swf file. It worked here.
Unzip the html page and the image folder on the same directory to open the page properly.
Google for "Flash transparency"
The instructions were there on the first link of the Google list.
<param name="wmode" value="transparent"> wouldn't work on mac screens but maybe now it does in osx. Useful for when you have flash movies displayed over a jpeg background on the page, and it doesn't create the 'fringe' you get with a gif.
The wmode=transparent modifier appears inside both the object and the embed tags.
A couple of corrections to the example...
- <param> needs no closing </param> tag
- place the <param name="wmode" value="transparent"> within the object tag, rather than outside it.
To make it clearer, heres an example of placement script for a swf.. note the forum software might renedr some strange icons in the code:
<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,29,0" width="325" height="525" hspace="0" vspace="0" align="left">
<param name="movie" value="images/heron_fishfly.swf">
<param name="quality" value="high">
<param name="wmode" value="transparent">
<embed src="images/heron_fishfly.swf" width="325" height="525" hspace="0" vspace="0" align="left" quality="high" wmode="transparent" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></object>
Q
Thanks to both of you, that is interesting and moreover, useful.
Thanks for that Gman,
I've seen those wmode settings but never gone into them. In fact Flash 8 has a Windowless Transparent option which makes more sense.