.swf Transparency Issue

[ristenk1]

Hi, I'm new to Flash and working out some issues....I've read up as much as I can but can't seem to fix my transparency problem. I saved my publish settings to "transparent windowless" and added transparent tags for both Firefox and IE (according to everything that I've read online) in my html code. Here is the code below:


<div id="ad">
<script type="text/javascript">
AC_FL_RunContent( 'codebase','http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,28,0','width','550','heigh t','400','title','f.estimates1','src','images/free_estimates1','quality','high','pluginspage','h ttp://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash','movi e','images/free_estimates1' ); //end AC code
</script><noscript><object classid="clsid27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,28,0" width="550" height="400" title="f.estimates1">
<param name="movie" value="images/free_estimates.swf" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<param name="wmode" value="transparent" />

<embed src="images/free_estimates1.swf" quality="high" wmode="transparent" pluginspage="http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="550" height="400"></embed>
</object></noscript>
</div>

I've tried everything I can think of...taking out the div tag...playing around with the quotation marks and forward slash at the end....I just can't figure out why my .swf file isn't transparent...it seems like it should be so simple...does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks,

Kris

[Justavan]

Hi ristenk1,

It looks like you have everything coded correctly but you missed one step for the transparency. You'll need to add "wmode", "transparent" to the AC_FL_RunContent javascript as well. I believe that should solve your issue.

Take care,
Tim

[ristenk1]

Thanks...that was it

[weegillis]

Now that you have transparency, ask this question: is there an alternate image in place WHILE the flash is loading? If there are links in the flash, are they also included in NOSCRIPT alternate content so the urls can still be reached by none flash users?

Also, can we assume your document is HTML 4 and not XHTML? The <.embed.> element will give you validation problems if the latter.

[morestar]

Originally Posted by weegillis

Now that you have transparency, ask this question: is there an alternate image in place WHILE the flash is loading? If there are links in the flash, are they also included in NOSCRIPT alternate content so the urls can still be reached by none flash users?

Also, can we assume your document is HTML 4 and not XHTML? The <.embed.> element will give you validation problems if the latter.

That or she could just add an image to the preloader maybe?

she may also not want to worry about validating either cause it really doesn't help conversions...

[weegillis]

The alternate image should be independent of the preloader, as it and the flash (scripts) are mutually exclusive. It should be in an IMG tag or perhaps a CSS background that loads with the page, before the scripts engage.

Validating just makes good sense for future compatibility. We all know it is not the be-all and end-all of well formedness, just a check list. It can't hurt to remove barriers from future development.