scrolling text with transparent background

[mr loopy]

Hi,if anyone can help me it would be great,I made a text box,added a scroll bar,made the movie etc,but I always have a colour background,I only want the text and the scrolling bar,I have no idea what I have to do next,I know it must be a code,and I am sure it has to go somewhere,lol...but where and how I would and could really do with help..Thanks so much to anyone who can shed light on this..

There are many mister men..but only one loopy :eek:

[webguyjon]

Hello there

Where are you wanting to show the swf movie? Is it just the text box with the scroll and it is a swf which is embedded onto a html page?

If so.. then the background is being set wrong in the html embed and if you use dreamweaver or the like then the background color specification for the embedded swf is located in the properties palette if you click on it.

also you will need to specify no background in flash before you export/publish.

If you are talking about something else... please reply and give us more info.

these are just my thoughts... I am not an advanced user yet.

jon

[mr loopy]

Hi mate..

Where are you wanting to show the swf movie? Is it just the text box with the scroll and it is a swf which is embedded onto a html page?

Thats it,I am using flash 8 and dreamweaver 8 for the site,so I do what you just said,I just want to place a scroll text over a page that I have so you can see through to the background of the page instead of the colour behind the text,I know it's not much but for some reason in flash I can not see how you can make the swf transparent,I always have a colour,and I can't see any choice for a default transparent colour,so I guess it is a code but I don't know what or where to place it when using flash8...Thanks so much for your help Webguyjon..

[oldnewbie]

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[webguyjon]

I believe what oldnewbie has said is very true, but I think you are trying to have a small swf element that can be updated with an external text document is that correct mr loopy? so you have an almost all html document and you just want to add a small text field in swf to the page somewhere? Is this for a news ticker or "updated news" block? anyway it doesn't really matter.

First off you will want to make sure that "border and background" are turned off on your text field within flash when you make it. then make your background say... white? Doesn't really matter what color just use something simple.

then export and open dreamweaver.

embed the swf into the html and then go to the code view and click on the swf you embedded to make it show up in the code view and then add this in between the embed tags.

<param NAME="wmode" Value="Transparent">


That should do it dude. The only things to make sure you do is to make sure you dont have any background vectors in the flash file acting as a background or then it obviously wont go transparent for you.

also... transparency doesnt work very well in nutscrape... er I mean netscape hahaha.

[mr loopy]

A bit went over my head but I'll try..Thanks for helping..it's kind of you..best wishes..

[mr loopy]

I think this is what I need...I am a bit new to it but I have a rough idea of where to start..it's silly but I seem not to bad on dreamweaver...but flash I seem to get a bit lost..I'm gonna try out what you said mate and see where I get to...I am sure I'll be back in a few hours saying..I can't do it..either way I will keep you posted..ps...nutscrape had me falling off the chair...lol..:D

[mr loopy]

Hi mate..quick update..thanks so much..I got that to work...only tried it on one and it did it..fantastic..lol..bit of a problem though now in my fireworks..lol..as always..lol..I have a gif that just had a title and was in the colour of the original background,now I want that transparent and I clicked on it from dreamweaver to edit in fireworks and for some reason I cant get that to go transparent,God its like from one to another..lol..I need my nuts scrapped...YiKES!!:eek:

[mr loopy]

I sorted out the probs..thanks so much...I'll have more problems soon...lol...;)

[webguyjon]

Hey hey there,

Glad I could help. I am in no way advanced at any of this but there is a large amount of this type of thing that i have run into in the past and have figured out work arounds and so I am just happy that I can help get your project working for you.

if you have more issues later... feel free to keep on posting.

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Ciao for niao.

Jon

[The Immortal Dave]

I have made a small flash file with which I can dynamically load text into a scrolling textbox. The movie works fine on my local machine, but when I uploaded it to my website the textbox reneders but the text does not load. I uploaded both the .swf and .txt files to the server. All the necessary files are there and where they should be. My host does not allow external linking, and I noticed in the html code there are a few places where external linking is going on. How do I work arround this so that the movie will work on my site?