UPDATED Transparent Flash in windows applications!!
Yep I decided to jump back onto that personal project I had. The Flash widgets application I named Flabulator.
I started up the old Visual studio and thought I had better run the debug built version, and I got a nice surprise. It seems Macromedia listened to my and several other peoples plea’s for transparency in winforms.
UPDATE: I found the reason for this working. I was using Form.TransparencyKey to key out the movie Background. Hope that helps some people. It works but not nicely AntiAliased (see the image below).
Can anyone else get the same in a c# .Net project? Just a pointer it wont happen in debugging in VS 2005 for me.
hi,
you can check http://www.codeproject.com for some cool transparency articles which can help you achive better visual results.
// chall3ng3r //
I am working on trying to find a way to put a flash movie into a vb.net form using VS 2003. There doesn’t seem to be anyway to do this but If anyone knows how to do this with another language, please send me email via my website so I can figure this out. This would be nice to use for skinning windows applications or creating those little “screenmate” things.
I’m using VS 2005 now and found that there is a big bug when you try to use the shockwave com component. The fix is simple… apparently if you try to add it and get an error about it not being properly registered, you can then select build -> rebuild and after it finishes you’ll be able to add it.
I still can’t figure out how to get the bg transparent.