I have created my own browser using .net and C# and with the browser recognizing things via flash of course you have to have the flash active x object installed and the object should do the rest with your flash movie.
As far as colors maybe this might have something to do with system colors available depending on what you want to do. If I had a complete look at your app so far and got what you are trying to do fully I might really be able to help, how ever I have found talking things out from time to time help you to see something or think of something. Hope that kinnda helps. Tony Trapp DBTWeb.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Winterhalder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Flashcoders mailing list" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 5:08 PM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] C++ flash host supporting transparency > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > [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 > > _______________________________________________ [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
