Background image on WDL

Norm · November 23, 2004, 6:00pm

Good day!

I am running WD Live and I want to put on a background image but I want to put it so the dials and other data are overlaid on the page.

windy2 · November 23, 2004, 6:17pm

there is a missing html command in the original wdl versions index.html file that you need to add
i.e
wmode=“transparent”

i,e
<EMBED src=“wdlv3_02.swf?mywebsite.com is available for purchase - Sedo.com” wmode=“transparent” quality=high bgcolor=#FFFFFF WIDTH=“100%” HEIGHT=“100%” NAME=“wdlv3_02.swf” ALIGN=“”
TYPE=“application/x-shockwave-flash” PLUGINSPAGE=“http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer”>

(but having that there makes firefox browser work harder)

Softvark · November 23, 2004, 6:33pm

The trick is to ensure that the WDL tags have the transparent parameter set, as Brians says, and secondly to either have the image you want as a background image to the page itself or as a background image for a table that contains WDL.

Julian

dcrooks · November 23, 2004, 10:45pm

Where is that set Julain?

windy2 · November 23, 2004, 11:59pm

see my posting above

dcrooks · November 24, 2004, 1:36am

Hehe…I went thru the config file looking at each guage trying to figure out where the transparency setting was…doh!

Speaking of FF, do you know the trick to make it work? When I view my WDL page at home using FF v0.9.3 the entire screen is blue. When I go to work and use FF v1.0 the boarder around the WDL is blue, but all the WDL items are on a white screen. Does this have something to do with the transparency setting? I set the bgcolor in the index file::

Loma Rica NorCal Weather Live

Am I going about this the wrong way?

hcorrin · November 24, 2004, 10:38pm

Loma Rica NorCal Weather Live

i have mine as below

is my flash what your aiming for link below

dcrooks · November 25, 2004, 12:18am

is my flash what your aiming for link below

No, with FF 0.9.3 here’s what I see…I don’t want the white background around the dials and stuff…

Hmmm, just checked your site in MSIE and it looks like what I am trying to do…think I better upgrade FF and see if that helps.

Nope, must be a FF thing…

krelvinaz · November 25, 2004, 3:14am

hcorrin post:7:

i have mine as below

</HEAD>
<BODY BACKGROUND="cloud204.jpg"> 

<PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high>
 <PARAM NAME=wmode VALUE=transparent>
 <PARAM NAME=bgcolor VALUE=#FFFFFF>

is my flash what your aiming for link below

That will work for MSIE, but NOT for FF… For FF to work, you need to modify another part of the same html script like below:


<EMBED src="wdlv3_02.swf?http://www.mywebsite.com/wdlconfig.xml" wmode="transparent" quality=high bgcolor=#FFFFFF  WIDTH="100%" HEIGHT="100%" NAME="wdlv3_02.swf" ALIGN=""
 TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer">

Note that the transparent part is in the EMBED Statement. You should copy all of this and readjust your NAME tag again.

windy2 · November 25, 2004, 3:18am

but having that extra wmode=“transparent” causes fire fox to be real sluggish with the WDL (its a FF thing)

dcrooks · November 25, 2004, 4:23am

<EMBED src="wdlv3_02.swf?http://www.mywebsite.com/wdlconfig.xml" wmode="transparent" quality=high bgcolor=#FFFFFF

Sometimes I can’t see the forest for the trees…missed that bgcolor in the embed statement… :oops:

Changing that made my screen look right to me here locally using FF 1.0.

Norm · November 27, 2004, 8:06pm

Good Afternoon

Again, many thanks for the advice.