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steviln - 28 Jul 2008 12:06 GMT

I have problems using an SWF i have made. The SWF is displayed with an absolute
layer above it. This means it must be set to transparent. This works fine in
Safari and Opera, but in Firefox the SWF will not load at all when the property
is set to transparent. When that property is not set, it works perfectly. Also,
it does not work in IE when loaded from the cache, something I avoid by using a
random variable from a php script.

Does anyone have any idea what I have done wrong? This is my first SWF file
compiled with mxmlc, so I may have coded something in a bad way?

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urami_ - 29 Jul 2008 01:53 GMT

> I have problems using an SWF i have made. The SWF is displayed with an absolute
> layer above it. This means it must be set to transparent. This works fine in
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> Does anyone have any idea what I have done wrong? This is my first SWF file
> compiled with mxmlc, so I may have coded something in a bad way?

Transparency is purely browser end, nothing to do with the movie.
Could you provide problematic URL? Funny thing tho, this problem never occurs in IE or Firefox
but more commonly in Safari, while in your case, the other way round.
Anyway, if possibly, give us the URL so we can check it out first to find out whether it's
your end or general problem, then will try to go from there.

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steviln - 29 Jul 2008 11:34 GMT

I somewhat solved that problem with using different html code in Firefox, not
able to switch it back on that page now. However, I have a more general problem
with IE refusing to load images when loaded from cache. I am using a standard
Loader and compile the code by using the free flex SDK compiler. I am using
FlashObject to load the SWF files into the html pages. While I do this, image
will not load when the swf is loaded from the cache. If I delete the cache,
they will load again. When loading in Firefox with standard embed tags, it
loads perfectly, but the standard code refuses to load the SWF file in explorer!

What I need is help in the html code to include the SWF in a webpage. Yes, I
know it can be googled, but I get swamped by obsolete pages and pages with
stuff that do not help me at all. Do anyone know and UP TO DATE page where I
can get help with this?

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Travis Newbury - 29 Jul 2008 12:57 GMT

> What I need is help in the html code to include the SWF in a webpage. Yes, I
> know it can be googled, but I get swamped by obsolete pages and pages with
> stuff that do not help me at all. Do anyone know and UP TO DATE page where I
> can get help with this?

And the URL to demonstrate your problem is....

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