How to make Flash Windowless

#1

Hi,

Anybody out there had any tutorial on how to remove the background of Flash windows to make flash movie animate in transparent background (windowless) style??

I know there’s a program call IceProjector by Flashants, but I would want to know how to create this effect instead of using plugins.

Hope that someone can help on this.

Rgds

#2

To make the flash movie transparent, all you need to do is add the words “wmode=transparent” in your embed tag of the HTML… (Assuming you are talking about adding it to a site)

Now, to make it float above other stuff I think you need to add a style information with this: “position:absolute”

I hope that helps…

Any questions ? :cool:

#3

Also,

As far as I know, this only works in IE.

#4

yes, it is only IE on the pc

its actually a param you set in the object tag, hence the reason its IE only (its a param of the activx control that netscape doesnt have access to and macs dont have at all)


<PARAM NAME="wmode" VALUE="transparent">
#5

Actually, I want to create an animate “Virtual Pet” that can run around in the desktop screen with the background transparent.

I know that we can make window transparent under HTML, but I would like to know can we go further to the desktop without to buy expensive plugin to do that.

#6

cant do that without an extra piece of software im afraid

#7

Macromedia Director can do what you need.

#8

Ian Jones, how to do it??
:hmm:

#9

I’m not sure exactly how, but in our class (uni) this guy did a tutorial on it. It’ll be a few days before I get to see it though, so I can’t help you yet.

#10

Hope that you can find out how it’s done & please share with us
if possible. :slight_smile:

I do hope that others had a solution on this “Windowless Flash”.

#11

???

#12

I found a 3rd party software for the windowless Flash, called
mprojector from Binarynoise.

30 days trial, had to purchase…:annoyed:

#13

Hey, nice to hear you found a solution.

I’m sorry I never replied… you would have had to learn how to use director anyway… which is a pretty irritating solution.

#14

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