hiding part of a Flash image

[Haines Brown]

I'm trying to use a Shockwave Flash file as is except for a line of
text that it displays. I'd like to hide that line of text, and so I
tried to create a black mask to do it. However, I can't move the mask
over the text.

This is the idea:

<div id="inside">
<embed>...</embed>
<div id="mask"></div>
</div>

With the style:

embed { z-index: 1; }
#mask { width: 400px; height: 40px;
background-color: black;
position: relative; left: 380px; bottom: 30px;
z-index: 2;
}

The mask appears to slip under the Flash image regardless of z-index.

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[David Stone]

In article <87************@teufel.hartford-hwp.com>,
Haines Brown <br****@teufel.hartford-hwp.comwrote:

I'm trying to use a Shockwave Flash file as is except for a line of
text that it displays. I'd like to hide that line of text, and so I
tried to create a black mask to do it. However, I can't move the mask
over the text.

This is the idea:

<div id="inside">
<embed>...</embed>
<div id="mask"></div>
</div>

With the style:

embed { z-index: 1; }
#mask { width: 400px; height: 40px;
background-color: black;
position: relative; left: 380px; bottom: 30px;
z-index: 2;
}

The mask appears to slip under the Flash image regardless of z-index.

I know this is a silly question, but why don't you just
remove the offending text from the flash file?

[Nije Nego]

On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 07:33:58 -0400, David Stone wrote:

In article <87************@teufel.hartford-hwp.com>,
Haines Brown <br****@teufel.hartford-hwp.comwrote:

>I'm trying to use a Shockwave Flash file as is except for a line of
text that it displays. I'd like to hide that line of text, and so I
tried to create a black mask to do it. However, I can't move the mask
over the text.

This is the idea:

<div id="inside">
<embed>...</embed>
<div id="mask"></div>
</div>

With the style:

embed { z-index: 1; }
#mask { width: 400px; height: 40px;
background-color: black;
position: relative; left: 380px; bottom: 30px;
z-index: 2;
}

The mask appears to slip under the Flash image regardless of z-index.

I know this is a silly question, but why don't you just
remove the offending text from the flash file?

Obviously, offending text is somebody elses logo.

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[Haines Brown]

Nije Nego <"nije\"nego"@net.hrwrites:

On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 07:33:58 -0400, David Stone wrote:

>In article <87************@teufel.hartford-hwp.com>,
Haines Brown <br****@teufel.hartford-hwp.comwrote:

>>I'm trying to use a Shockwave Flash file as is except for a line of
text that it displays. I'd like to hide that line of text, and so I
tried to create a black mask to do it. However, I can't move the mask
over the text.

I know this is a silly question, but why don't you just
remove the offending text from the flash file?

Obviously, offending text is somebody elses logo.

A reasonable guess, but not the case in fact. The two Flash files were
purchased by my wife for her web page (and it was I who paid for
them). However, for her site's splash page, the original designer
also incorporated a hot text into the Flash file to link to the next
page. I felt it better to have the move automatic (meta refresh)
rather than require a mouse click. So I needed to hide the hot
text. Is there something about Flash files that they don't respond to
stacking with z-index? Is there some place on line where I can find
out about Flash parameters and attributes?

I would have liked to recreate the animationed effects from scratch,
but I would prefer not to use javascript, and the animations may be
too complicated for it: a) a text that encircles the globe which
emerges from a point, b) a star that likewise emerges, c) a text
that does the same. What are my (non-proprietary) options for creating
such effects?

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Haines Brown
KB1GRM
ET1(SS) U.S.S. Irex SS-482

[Gus Richter]

Haines Brown wrote:

Nije Nego <"nije\"nego"@net.hrwrites:

>On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 07:33:58 -0400, David Stone wrote:

>>In article <87************@teufel.hartford-hwp.com>,
Haines Brown <br****@teufel.hartford-hwp.comwrote:

I'm trying to use a Shockwave Flash file as is except for a line of
text that it displays. I'd like to hide that line of text, and so I
tried to create a black mask to do it. However, I can't move the mask
over the text.
I know this is a silly question, but why don't you just
remove the offending text from the flash file?

Obviously, offending text is somebody elses logo.

A reasonable guess, but not the case in fact. The two Flash files were
purchased by my wife for her web page (and it was I who paid for
them). However, for her site's splash page, the original designer
also incorporated a hot text into the Flash file to link to the next
page. I felt it better to have the move automatic (meta refresh)
rather than require a mouse click. So I needed to hide the hot
text. Is there something about Flash files that they don't respond to
stacking with z-index? Is there some place on line where I can find
out about Flash parameters and attributes?

I would have liked to recreate the animationed effects from scratch,
but I would prefer not to use javascript, and the animations may be
too complicated for it: a) a text that encircles the globe which
emerges from a point, b) a star that likewise emerges, c) a text
that does the same. What are my (non-proprietary) options for creating
such effects?

<http://www.quip.net/blog/2006/flash/how-to-position-flash-beneath-other-content>

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[Spartanicus]

Haines Brown <br****@teufel.hartford-hwp.comwrote:

>However, for her site's splash page, the original designer
also incorporated a hot text into the Flash file to link to the next
page. I felt it better to have the move automatic (meta refresh)
rather than require a mouse click. So I needed to hide the hot
text.

Get a Flash editor, change the Flash file.

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Spartanicus

[Sherm Pendley]

Haines Brown <br****@teufel.hartford-hwp.comwrites:

A reasonable guess, but not the case in fact. The two Flash files were
purchased by my wife for her web page (and it was I who paid for
them). However, for her site's splash page, the original designer
also incorporated a hot text into the Flash file to link to the next
page. I felt it better to have the move automatic (meta refresh)
rather than require a mouse click. So I needed to hide the hot
text.

Why not simply open up the .fla file in a Flash editor, remove the link,
and export a new .swf?

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[Haines Brown]

Sherm Pendley <sh***@Sherm-Pendleys-Computer.localwrites:

Haines Brown <br****@teufel.hartford-hwp.comwrites:

>A reasonable guess, but not the case in fact. The two Flash files were
purchased by my wife for her web page (and it was I who paid for
them). However, for her site's splash page, the original designer
also incorporated a hot text into the Flash file to link to the next
page. I felt it better to have the move automatic (meta refresh)
rather than require a mouse click. So I needed to hide the hot
text.

Why not simply open up the .fla file in a Flash editor, remove the link,
and export a new .swf?

sherm,

I don't have the original .fla file. Do you think the developer who
sold my wife the resulting .swf file is obliged to hand it over to his
client? I should think so, but don't know. If I had that file I could
use f4l (Flash for Linux), which I've installed, to rebuild the swf
file with the changes I need.

I tried out Flare (Linux), but it only produces a .flr script file,
not the original resources. If I can't get the fla resources from the
original developer it seems I have little choice but to pay to have
the two swf files decompiled.

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Haines Brown
KB1GRM
ET1(SS) U.S.S. Irex SS-482