its neither chromeless nor popup can any one tellme what it is?

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12-28-2002, 04:51 PM
adnank21

its neither chromeless nor popup can any one tellme what it is?

i visited movies.yahoo.com and thesun.co.uk.......and sth like animated banner appeared....from top of the screen to the middle...with close button at right corner....it was made in flash...at yahoo.com it was advertising about some movie and at thesun.co.uk they were advertising about nokia .....
it had no border...by the way it was not chromeless window....
i read another thread couple of days back asking same questions.....
i can't remember that ...
plzzzz help me how it is done ...its a really cool thing...

bye
adnan
12-28-2002, 04:55 PM
adnank21

but problem is this that some times it apears and some times not...
i mean i visited movies.yahoo.com again but there was no such thing again.
12-28-2002, 07:36 PM
EvolveDesigns

hmm weird.. are you sure it's not a chromeless?? I was sure that that's what those things were...

ps.. PLEASE don't use those!! heheh.. sooooo annoying. Most people don't know wtf is happening and split (my opinion)
12-28-2002, 08:56 PM
catbert303

hopefully we've seen the last of chromeless windows, it was just exploiting a security flaw in internet explorer that microsoft have now patched (at last, I hate the things :))
it could be what you saw was a transparent flash movie, these have been available (using activeX) on internet explorer on windows for quite a while, but now the latest flash player adds support for netscape/mozilla based browsers on windows and some browsers on a mac running OSX. You can layer the transparent movie over the page, here's a link,

http://www.macromedia.com/support/fl...ents/wmode.htm

you can put your object and embed tags from the movie you make within a div (or some other html holder) that allows you to layer content, eg

<div id="myFlash" style="z-index: 2; position: absolute; left: 50px; top: 10px;"><object .....

</object>
</div>
12-28-2002, 09:21 PM
EvolveDesigns

I didn't know flashMX supported that Netscape! that's great. I've avoided using tranparent swf's because they weren't viewable by everyone.. cool! thx for the insite :)
12-29-2002, 10:29 AM
adnank21

thanx guys.....

yes it worked....

catbert303 i want to ask one more question....now i have that transprent movie on my html page.....now i want to remove it when it i completly played..what i should do.........
simply but unloadmovie level0......at the end of the movie

help plzzzz
bye
12-29-2002, 07:38 PM
catbert303

Yeah, that should work, through you'll still get a popup when you right click on where the movie was, with movie not loaded written in it.

Alternatively a little while ago I was messing with some javascript, which can be used to physically remove the tags that embed the movie from the page, which while slightly more complictated than

_level0.unloadMovie();

will also remove the pop up menu from the space where the movie was,

you need to put your movie within some tag (a paragraph for example) and give this p tag an id, like this,

<p id="mymovie">
<object ....

</object>
</p>

now in between the <head> and </head> tags of the page add this javascript function,

Code:

<script type="text/javascript"> function removeMovie(id) { var obj = document.getElementById(id); while (obj.hasChildNodes()) { obj.removeChild(obj.firstChild); } } </script>

and finally in the last frame of your movie add the action,

getURL("javascript:removeMovie('mymovie');");

where 'mymovie' was the id given to the paragraph tag surrounding the object and embed tags.