[SWFObject] Transparent/background color discrepancy

[benedict steele]

Hi Sam,

I might be wrong, but I think the flash parameter for background colour 
needs to be a hexadecimal colour... Transparent won't work.

 This means that the script is balking(?) when it comes to the wmode.

Therefore your SWFObject needs to be
var flashcontent = new SWFObject("my.swf", "mydiv", "700", "380", "7",
"86A098");


Also the flashcontent.addParam also needs to be before flashcontent.write
(That caught me out when I first started using this method).

Hope this helps...

Rgds,
Ben


Sam Holland wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I'm having an issue embedding a swf using SWFObject that I haven't run
> into before. I think I know what the cause of the problem may be, but
> I'll try describing it instead.
>
> The HTML has a background color of rgb(134, 160, 152) with a png on
> top. My SWFObject looks like this:
>
> var flashcontent = new SWFObject("my.swf", "mydiv", "700", "380", "7",
> "transparent");
>
> The problem is that the background isn't transparent. It's not even
> close to my rgb value -- it's actually rgb(0, 160, 0) -- it looks like
> one of Flash's inexplicable color substitutions, and it's opaque. I
> need the swf to be transparent, not only for the color but for the
> image beneath.
>
> Now, I've looked through some other posts to this list and I've tried
> the following:
>
> flashcontent.addParam("wmode", "transparent");
>
> with the same results. I've looked at this in Safari, Firefox and
> Camino, and it's the same across the board.
>
> Any thoughts? Thanks,
>
> Sam
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