Flash ActiveX Control Transparency in a .NET Form

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George S.

Hello folks,

Anybody knows if it is possible to display movies with transparent
background with Macromedia Flash 8 ActiveX in a .NET form? Nothing works.
Google is full of questions but no answers.

Any help would me much appreciated.

george_saz
 
No it's not possible (At least, i'm 99.997% sure)

The flash player takes charge of it's own bit of real-estate and has no
setting for transparency such as that used in the LayeredWindow API's.
(These API's cheat by drawing the control/window on a hidden bitmap and
blending it with the desktop image so the transparent window must be a
toplevel one.)

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