Archived entries for Flash

Flash – Cheat Sheet

Flash can be a little slow to navigate around, luckily alot of common functions have keyboard shortcuts. I made this Flash Cheat Sheet for all common shortcuts to shorten development time.

I didn't write the cheat sheet. I formatted this page, so you can print it out in a nice readable pdf version (there's also a .png version).

Flash Cheat Sheet - PDF (1.6MB)

Flash Cheat Sheet - PNG (320Kb)

If there's any mistakes, or anything that I've left out, let me know and I'll fix it.

Flash – Transparent Backgrounds

Trying to finish my Graphic design project tonight and discovered how to make a swf with a transparent background. HTML code is:

Add these parameters to the "param" tag:

param name="wmode" value="transparent"

Add this parameter to the embed tag:

wmode="transparent"

So the full code I used to embed a swf file called "brain.swf" is:

<object width="216" height="144" data="brain.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"><param name="wmode" value="transparent" /><param name="src" value="brain.swf" /></object>

This works in Firefox 3 and IE 7, haven't tested it out on any other browsers yet. Flash 6 or higher is needed.



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