Why reinvent the wheel? Did you have a look at SWHX yet? It works for Windows and OSX, Linux support AFAIK would need FP9, maybe more. I'm not sure about transparency, but since Screenweaver could do it, it's probably there.
<http://haxe.org/swhx> I don't want to stop you from rolling your own, if that's what you want, I just thought I'd point you to it in case you haven't heard about it yet. Mark On 10/11/06, Chris Douglass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hey, I'm building a C++ app to run on Windows (then maybe on Mac and X) that will host SWFs. On Windows I'm using the Flash activeX control to host my Flash app. I'd like to render the Flash viewport/window onto my application's surface with transparency such that only the content on the stage is drawn to my window. Does anyone know how you would implement this within a custom host/container like mine? How do the browsers implement this (well the ones that support it)? Does Flash tell the host the key color being used for transparency? I've seen a few articles here and there that Flash sends its output to an off-screen buffer that the browsers use to render Flash content with non-rectangular transparency. But, I'm not sure how as a host container the Flash frame buffers and transparency key color are accessible to me. Does the stage color become the RGB key color value that Flash communicates to the browser to assist with this process? What if that same color is used in the content of your movie/content within your SWF? Do the browsers render those pixels transparently as well? Anyway, I'm going to start some tests but thought maybe someone could shed some light for me. Also, does anyone have experience building their own SWF host application that runs on Windows and Mac? I need to port my app (and am not interested in using the commercial swf/exe hosts out there, at least not yet ;]) to the Mac, so whatever transparency technique I use on Win32 would hopefully not require a full-rewrite on the Mac (yeah right). Is there an SDK for people wanting to build their own hosts for Flash apps? Is there a lower-level interface/API I can tap into that exposes the Flash content/internals so that developers can write their own unique hosts? What wrapper/API is exposed to the Mac platform developers for creating containers on OSX? Thanks for ANY input :) I'll start fiddling with WMODE and see what happens for starters... Where is the definitive internals book on the Flash runtime engine? Does one exist? Chris Douglass Innovative Code & Design Atlanta, GA www.innovativecode.com _______________________________________________ [email protected] To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
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