Transparent Flash

[LoneAngelIbesu]

I'm testing out Graal's flash capabilities with a little program that creates Flash graphs from an XML file. However, the Flash file it creates is transparent. With HTML, I can set the background color, but I don't know how to do that with a GuiFlash control.

Right now, the transparency is turned to black. I've tried setting the profile's fill color, but it didn't do anything. Any ideas, people?

Also, you can see the example by using this code:

PHP Code:

//#CLIENTSIDE
function onCreated() {
  new GuiWindowCtrl("FlashContainer") {
    this.profile = GuiWindowProfile;
    this.width = 410;
    this.height = 330;
    this.x = screenwidth / 2 - this.width / 2;
    this.y = screenheight / 2 - this.height / 2;
    this.destroyonhide = true;
    this.canclose = true;
    this.closequery = false;
    this.clientrelative = true;
    new GuiFlash("FlashData") { 
      temp.base = "http://www.shakytable.com/inverness/flash/charts.swf?library_path=";
      temp.lib = "http://www.shakytable.com/inverness/flash/charts_library&xml_source=";
      temp.xml = "http://www.shakytable.com/inverness/flash/test.xml";
      this.x = 0;
      this.y = 0;
      this.width = 400;
      this.height = 300;
      this.tryactivex = true;
      //this.useownprofile = true;
      //this.profile.fillcolor = {76, 94, 111};
      this.moviename = temp.base @ temp.lib @ temp.xml;
      this.playmovie();
    }
  }
} 


[Programmer]

Try:

PHP Code:

setflashvariable("bgcolor", "#000000"); 


[LoneAngelIbesu]

Nope, that doesn't do the trick. It seems like it should, though, since that's how you'd do it with HTML.

[Programmer]

Originally Posted by LoneAngelIbesu

Nope, that doesn't do the trick. It seems like it should, though, since that's how you'd do it with HTML.

Then perhaps:

PHP Code:

// This...
backgroundalpha = 0.0;
// ... or this
setbackgroundalpha(0.0); 


[LoneAngelIbesu]

Yikes! That produces an access violation. I tried setbackgroundalpha(0.0), but it didn't work either.

[Programmer]

Sad to say, but I've tried various methods and none of them have worked.
I suppose Graal doesn't support Flash transparency.

I tried these and it didn't work:

PHP Code:

useownprofile = true;
profile.opaque = false;
profile.fillcolor = {0, 0, 0, 0};
profile.transparency = 0;

setFlashVariable("bgcolor", "#000000");
setFlashVariable("wmode", "transparent");
setBackgroundAlpha(0); 


[LoneAngelIbesu]

I figured as much. Graal never did handle transparency well.

[coreys]

this.alpha = 1; ?
lol
I haven't messed with GuiFlash yet.

[Admins]

The backgroundalpha variable is not used right now. It's not simple to get the flash control being displayed transparent on top of Direct3D/OpenGL. It might be possible in the future when using external windows, but those don't support flash yet anyway.

[LoneAngelIbesu]

Thanks for responding. Hopefully you'll be able to figure out how to get transparent flash working with Direct3D/OpenGL in the future.