Alice in Wonderland

Jongmin Kim Photography

Team Members XML – AS3
Team Members XML module for Flash with autoPlay, previous, next buttons and scrollable text description box.

Fable Haven

Christmas Carol Tree

AS3 Date Picker
This date chooser is a welcome adition to your project. There are tons of ways you could use this, it’s all up to you. It’s very easy to use and implement, written in neat Actionscript 3.0 code.

If you’d like to contribute send us via contact form the link that inspired you and specify in the message for “Flash of the day” or via Twitter http://www.twitter.com/flashuser

Cloudy with a Chance of Meat Balls

IFP Design

Efinity Rss Reader
It allows users to register and then put all of their feeds. The feeds are stored on a database and checked every 1 hour for updates. This is a Web and Desktop application.

And since the trend now is to have a great animated Flash site for presentation, almost every site I visited had an entertaining feature. Therefore I decided to make a post with 25 recent movie official sites completely made in Flash that captured my attention. So from animation to comedy, adventure to drama I give you the list:

1. Angels and Demons

2. Coraline

3. The Ugly Truth

4. Inglourious Basterds

5. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

6. Year One

7. Terminator Salvation

8. Public Enemies

9. Planet 51

10. Star Trek

11. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

12. Astro Boy

13. The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3

14. The Time Travelers Wife

15. G.I. Joe

16. Despicable Me

17. The Hangover

18. The Brothers Bloom

19. Funny People

20. Aliens in the Attic

21. Land of Lost

22. 2012

23. District 9

24. Alice in Wonderland

25. Gamer

Browsers are the reason for this issue because they place embedded plug-in content, such as a Flash movie or Java applet, on the topmost layer. But newer browsers add the ability to use transparent backgrounds in the Flash content. Using the WMODE parameter we’ll be able to do layering of Flash content with DHTML layers. The WMODE parameter can be ‘window’ (default), ‘opaque’, or ‘transparent’.

So, for today’s tip we are going to learn how to make Flash movie with a transparent background.

It is important to know that the background of a Flash movie can be set to transparent which enables the background image or text to show through and allows the layering of Flash content with DHTML content.

Setting options to make the Flash movie transparent

We’re going to explain how it’s done in two ways.The first one in which we are going to use Flash for creating the HTML page and the movie. The second one contains HTML code that we can edit.

A. Using Flash

We’ll create the HTML for a Flash movie using the Publish Settings feature. This dialog box provides an option to affect the WMODE setting. The options selected will be added to the HTML source code automatically. Follow the steps and see for yourself the result.

1. Select the File menu -> Publish Settings

2. In the dialog box there is a Format tab: select the HTML (.html) option

3. Click the new HTML tab -> select the Window Mode menu

4. Select the Transparent Windowless option

5. Click Publish after finishing

That’s it. You can view the after effect.

B. Editing HTML manually

In order to edit an existing HTML file, we must add the WMODE parameters to the HTML code.

1. Add the following parameter to the OBJECT tag:

 <param name="wmode" value="transparent"> 

2. Add the following parameter to the EMBED tag:

 wmode="transparent" 

That pretty much covers the basic idea for setting the WMODE so that you can obtain a Flash movie with a transparent background.

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Star Trek – The Movie

Land’s End

Made for Each Other