advanced windows and flash movie borders

[Stinkyman51d]

ok im been working with flash for a while now and there are a few things that im totally lost on.

1) how does one create thoes cool flash ads that overlap the html page? the ones im talking about show up on www.yahoo.com everynow and then. you know the kind im talking about. movie ads use them alot and they alwase have a close button. the videos appear to have to border and over lap the web page. HOW IS THIS DONE??? my brain is fryed trying to figure it out.

2) what about this site http://www.kurtnoble.com/ no matter how big u make the window, the flash video takes up the whole window (automatically resizes), but the images and buttons remain the same size. WHAT UP WITH THAT?

[Stinkyman51d]

wow 51 reads and no replys. ether i hit a taboo subject, or no one knows how this is done.

come one some ones got to have some ideas.

i know there is the turorial on this site to launch a chromeless window, but i dont think thats what i want. Or is it?

[CyanBlue]

Howdy... ;)

Well... My guess is that you didn't get any reply because your question was not clear enough...

I think the answer for #1 can be found pretty much easily if you search the forum with 'wmode transparent'...

As for the #2, I don't know what 'video' you are referring to...

:(

[Stinkyman51d]

well its a little hard to explain. in #2 the flash site takes up the whole browser window. it doesent appear to be a flash video in a html page. it resizes automatically with the size of the brower's window. this allows them to have a neet gradient color fade in the background. the buttons and images in the site dont change size though.

for #1 go to www.eyeblaster.com click on foating ad. thats what im talking about. how do you create the flash video to have a transpartent background, and how do you put it into a html page so you can click through it (highlite text, click hyperlinks etc...)

[CyanBlue]

My answer remains the same... Did you search for more information on 'wmode transparent'??? That's what you are looking for... ;)

[Warrior]

2) what about this site http://www.kurtnoble.com/ no matter how big u make the window, the flash video takes up the whole window (automatically resizes), but the images and buttons remain the same size. WHAT UP WITH THAT?


It's this code

document.write('<PARAM NAME=scale VALUE=noscale>');

[Stinkyman51d]

just goofing around today, a buddy told me about layers in html. i created a html page with a layer on top and put the flash video in the top html layer with the wmode transparend code. SUCCESS!! Its always exciting to learn how to do new things. thanks for the help.

as for my origional question #2... Warrior is that code html or actionscript? where,how to use it?

thanks

[Warrior]

Originally posted by Stinkyman51d
as for my origional question #2... Warrior is that code html or actionscript? where,how to use it? thanks

sorry for the late reply :D

it's HTML code and you put it in the HTML page of the movie.