I searched for "wmode" in Google, and it seems like it does address my problem, but I did see posts by other people regarding browser compatibily issues. I will look into it and try that, thanks for leading me to the right direction.
--- In [email protected], Gustavo Duenas LRS <gdue...@...> wrote: > > have you tried to set the background transparent from the part of the > embeded like: > <param name="wmode" value="transparent"/> > or something like that, I used to do that in the flash using > swfobject but I guess that might work as well, although I've never > used on flex. > Some solutions outside the mx application could be good to try. > > Gustavo > > On Mar 18, 2009, at 8:01 PM, elevight wrote: > > > Here's the code of my small application: > > > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> > > <mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"; > > layout="vertical" > > width="540" height="45" horizontalScrollPolicy="off" > > verticalScrollPolicy="off" > > paddingTop="1" paddingBottom="0" paddingLeft="0" paddingRight="0" > > verticalAlign="middle"> > > <mx:HBox horizontalAlign="left" backgroundAlpha="0"> > > <mx:Label text="Login:"/> > > <mx:TextInput id="txtLogin" width="165" height="20" maxChars="25"/> > > <mx:Label text="Password:"/> > > <mx:TextInput id="txtPassword" width="165" height="20" > > maxChars="25" displayAsPassword="true"/> > > <mx:Button id="btnSubmit" label="Submit" width="70"/> > > </mx:HBox> > > <mx:HBox horizontalAlign="center" backgroundAlpha="0"> > > <mx:Text text="This is a test message of an error." > > color="0xff0000" fontWeight="bold"/> > > </mx:HBox> > > </mx:Application> > > > > When the above application is run, I get this default blue > > background that all Flex applications start with. I want to make it > > transparent so that whatever my Flex application is sitting on in > > my web page would show instead. > > > > I've tried setting the backgroundAlpha of the mx:Application to > > zero but have had no effect. > > > > Anybody have any suggestions on how to do this? Thanks. > > > > > > >
