[SWFObject] wmode transparent problem and more

[Geoff Stearns]

have you compared your old object/embed tags with your swfobject code?

can you post both of those so we can see if anything is different  
between the 2?


On Jul 27, 2006, at 10:20 PM, Lawrence Nievaart wrote:

> Hi Geoff,
>
> The IE problem is fixed after reinstalling the player so that's no  
> problem. But the transparency problem remained. There was no  
> artwork or anything else that could have caused those lines. The  
> same .swf worked fine with transparency before I applied swfobject.  
> The transparency problem only occured afterwards. Don't know why  
> that is, but hoping someone might be able to help.
>
> Cheers.
>
> On 7/28/06, Geoff Stearns <geoff at deconcept.com> wrote:
> well, swfobject doesn't do anything special when it comes to setting
> wmode... it just sets it and then it's up to the browser + player to
> display it.
>
> any display issues you are having are related to that, and can't
> really be fixed by the code.
>
> Those lines might be *in* your flash movie, so just makes sure your
> background goes off the edge, and ther's no extra art hanging around
> that might show up.
>
> as for the IE7 stuff, did you reinstall the flash player after you
> installed ie7? sometimes you have to run the uninstaller an then
> reinstall the plugin in order for it to work right.
>
>
> On Jul 27, 2006, at 1:52 AM, Lawrence Nievaart wrote:
>
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Thanks Geoff for the script, it's much easier than the Macromedia
> > solutions. However, I'm having a problem and hoping someone here
> > might be able to help.
> >
> > I have set my movie to:
> >
> > so.addParam("wmode", "transparent");
> >
> > Now: In Firefox it only *kinda* works. For the main part, it is
> > transparent, but there are tinges of background colour around the
> > movie clips inside my .swf which shouldn't be there. (see the
> > example1.jpg I have attached).
> >
> > In IE-7, it doesn't even show my Flash but brings up the alternate
> > content. I have set the version number required as 8 but IE is
> > prompting me if I want to download Flash Player 9. Why is that?
> >
> > Thanks for any help. I'm not a scripter except by necessity so go
> > easy!
> > Cheers.
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