Customizing the Flash Player

Question

I am currently running a Digital signage application with regions (screen broken up into sections & we utilize the flash players to load up when .swf are requested. I know by default when you have a "empty flash player" the default background is black. What I want to do is customize or disable the background ( black) and have the player be transparent. just like you would in a html doc (webpage). Since our application is a digital signage app we are not utilizing the web so there isnt a HTML CONTAINER or option to be transparent.

Is there away to go into any of the config files and disable the "background" the result I am looking for is to have 2 overlapping flash players & have the bottom one play backgrounds... and the top flash player be transparent (a floating window) so if there is text or something loaded on the top player you can always see what is playing behind it.

can this be done & how can I disable or make transparent

jeromiec83223024 · Answer

This approach is problematic. Flash Player isn't engineered to run indefinitely, and you're going to run into headaches with longevity. You should probably consider a different technology that's specifically engineered with longevity in mind.

Flash technology is used in casino games, which do run 24/7/365, but the Flash Player used there has been heavily customized by one of our third party scaling partners in collaboration with that industry, for that specific application.

If your organization is interested in licensing customized Flash technology for this application, I'd definitely be happy to put you in contact with our business development group to see how we can best meet your needs. That said, I wanted to make sure that you understand that our standard offerings are really intended for in-browser usage with finite sessions (our MTBF/MTBC targets are measured in hours or days, not months or years), before you make an expensive engineering commitment to this approach. If you would like to have a conversation at the business level about possibilities, please shoot me a note (just click my name) with contact information, and I'd be happy to forward it along to the right folks.

Thanks!

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