White Area appears before movie begins

[mspeppa19]

Hi me again, as I said i'm new to flash so before my movie loads on my webpage I get that white area before the movie plays. How do I go about changing this area to black? I don't want to have one of those "now Loading" things, the background of my webpage is black, so I just wanted that area to be black before the movie loaded. Thanks

 

[oldnewbie]

Do you have a link? What html code are you using? Both the object and embed tags? What the background color of your movie? Regards,

 

[mspeppa19]

This is the code from dreamweaver, I created the movie in flash then imported it and waaala, instant HTML. The background of my movie is black, I defined it as black in macromedia flash under the 'document' part...

<param name=&quot;movie&quot; value=&quot;flash/under.swf&quot;>
<param name=&quot;quality&quot; value=&quot;high&quot;>
<param name=&quot;LOOP&quot; value=&quot;false&quot;>
<embed src=&quot;file:///C|/NotesSQL/Documents%20and%20Settings/Untitled-1.swf&quot; width=&quot;362&quot; height=&quot;84&quot; loop=&quot;false&quot; quality=&quot;high&quot; pluginspage=&quot;

http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer&quot;

type=&quot;application/x-shockwave-flash&quot;></embed></object>



Also, what is the object classid for? --> <object classid=&quot;clsid:&quot;

Thanks

 

[oldnewbie]

Well Voila! I've never used DW. Hate it! I've allways used the Flash Publish feature to output the htmls I use and modify to my liking.
Generally speaking let's say the object tag is used for IE, and the embed tag used for NetScrap! Regards,

 

[mspeppa19]

So then, does anyone out there know how to remove the white area that appears while my movie is loading. I dont care what tips you have, I would just need the step-by-step on how to do it because I am new to flash. Soo if you say &quot;publish&quot; it via Flash, how do I go about doing that? I went to file - publish, and all I got was this quick moving thingie and then it disappeared and nothing else happened...Thanks

 

[oldnewbie]

I mean com'on guys!
Under Help-> Using Flash... There's a whole chapter on Publishing!
Start with that! Regards,

 

[firegambler]

you could implement one of those &quot;now loading things&quot; called preloader without using a &quot;now loading&quot;-image. you could just add a black shape on the first images instead of the preloader-graphs...

on

http://www.flashkit.com

there are tons of preloader tutorials (step by stepp as well).
the exact links to the preloader tutorials available is

http://www.flashkit.com/search.php?term=preloader&per=10&cat=tutorials&page=1

if you do some and understand them there should be no problem to carry out your project.

as far as i know (consciously using some kind of subjonctivic expression) there won't be a way to get around a preloader. regards

 

[firegambler]

... i assume there are some people knowing more than me...

fortunately i did not use absolute expressions ;-) regards