I love working with CC tools, but one of the things that is totally driving me nuts is the Flash Menu Builder's ability to generate the transparent background. I click the "Transparent" check box, I click on the Delete Background icon, i change other settings, save and resave and change and resave... but the transparent background simply does not show up until after I have done something to trick it into happening... and I do not know what that dang trick is!!!
This has got to be a bug, because it is so inconsistent that it is driving me nuts. It will eventually become transparent, but simply clicking the Transparent check box does not guarantee that it will happen. At this very moment, I am unable to get the transparent background to work.
Does anyone know the trick to coaxing it into transparent mode correctly?
I am using FMB version 3.4.
All my best,
Scott Tucker
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Can you tell me if this only does it on something you edit or when you create something new? Try creating a new menu and see if you get the transparent background working and then save and edit again and see if it disappears.
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Hi Scott,
Im working on a brand new menu right now, and I havent been able to get the transparency to work at all yet. For the other menus that I've built on the other sites, I have had to struggle with them as well.
There is a line in the final script that gets generated upon saving that has a Transparency setting in it. Once, I had to manually add that line in to get it to work, but it seems that checking the Transparency check box is supposed to insert that line in the final code, but it just doesnt do it automatically.
Eventually by checking and unchecking things, changing things, saving it, then chaging it back, I can sometimes bump that setting so it includes that line of code... but it should work easier than that I think. My thought is the check box is just a toggle for whether or not that Transparency code gets inserted in the final code. yes?
All my best,
Scott Tucker
Im working on a brand new menu right now, and I havent been able to get the transparency to work at all yet. For the other menus that I've built on the other sites, I have had to struggle with them as well.
There is a line in the final script that gets generated upon saving that has a Transparency setting in it. Once, I had to manually add that line in to get it to work, but it seems that checking the Transparency check box is supposed to insert that line in the final code, but it just doesnt do it automatically.
Eventually by checking and unchecking things, changing things, saving it, then chaging it back, I can sometimes bump that setting so it includes that line of code... but it should work easier than that I think. My thought is the check box is just a toggle for whether or not that Transparency code gets inserted in the final code. yes?
All my best,
Scott Tucker
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Hrmm, very strange. I just tried it here and had no issues. I tried editing old saved ones and creating a new one and never had a problem. I also checked the code we produce and it does contain the transparent tag.
HTML Code:
Met me know if you see anything different there. ~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~
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Phone: 678.495.3480
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HTML Code:
<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000"
codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0"
width="469" height="71" id="CC5804170" align="middle">
<param name="movie" value="mymenu.swf"/>
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<param name="scale" value="noscale" />
<param name="salign" value="lt" />
<param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" />
<param name="wmode" value="transparent"/>
<embed src="mymenu.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="#ffffff" width="469" height="71"
wmode=transparent name="CoffeeCup" scale="noscale" salign="lt" align="middle" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" /></object>
codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0"
width="469" height="71" id="CC5804170" align="middle">
<param name="movie" value="mymenu.swf"/>
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<param name="scale" value="noscale" />
<param name="salign" value="lt" />
<param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" />
<param name="wmode" value="transparent"/>
<embed src="mymenu.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="#ffffff" width="469" height="71"
wmode=transparent name="CoffeeCup" scale="noscale" salign="lt" align="middle" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" /></object>
Met me know if you see anything different there. ~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~
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Phone: 678.495.3480
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One trick Scott, if you never change your height and width of the menu, then you never need to re-paste in the html code again. You only need to do that if you modify the dimensions. When you make changes, just upload the files we generate and you will be all set.
This goes for all of our Flash applications.
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Scott A. Swedorski - VP of Product Development
CoffeeCup Software Inc.
Phone: 678.495.3480
"Want to update your website from anywhere? Check out our new free service, S-Drive Streams. Visit http://www.coffeecup.com/sdrive for more information."
This goes for all of our Flash applications.
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CoffeeCup Software Inc.
Phone: 678.495.3480
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hi Scott,
That "wmode=transparent... " line is the one that doesnt get added to my html code. I am using a custom button... would that have anything to do with it? All my best,
Scott Tucker
That "wmode=transparent... " line is the one that doesnt get added to my html code. I am using a custom button... would that have anything to do with it? All my best,
Scott Tucker
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Custom buttons would have no impact on the html code we generate. Those new buttons would just be inside of the xml file. If you want, email me the project and all files and I can run a test on it.
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Scott A. Swedorski - VP of Product Development
CoffeeCup Software Inc.
Phone: 678.495.3480
"Want to update your website from anywhere? Check out our new free service, S-Drive Streams. Visit http://www.coffeecup.com/sdrive for more information."
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Scott A. Swedorski - VP of Product Development
CoffeeCup Software Inc.
Phone: 678.495.3480
"Want to update your website from anywhere? Check out our new free service, S-Drive Streams. Visit http://www.coffeecup.com/sdrive for more information."
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Will do. email address?
All my best,
Scott Tucker
Scott Tucker
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scott@coffeecup.com
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Scott A. Swedorski - VP of Product Development
CoffeeCup Software Inc.
Phone: 678.495.3480
"Want to update your website from anywhere? Check out our new free service, S-Drive Streams. Visit http://www.coffeecup.com/sdrive for more information."
Scott A. Swedorski - VP of Product Development
CoffeeCup Software Inc.
Phone: 678.495.3480
"Want to update your website from anywhere? Check out our new free service, S-Drive Streams. Visit http://www.coffeecup.com/sdrive for more information."
Kirk McCurdy
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Scott,
I'm experiencing the EXACT same problem as described above...and absolutely nothing I do corrects this problem. Any ideas?
I'm experiencing the EXACT same problem as described above...and absolutely nothing I do corrects this problem. Any ideas?
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