Transparent Flash Movies

FlashPlayerControl supports transparency, enabling applications with non-rectangular and translucent windows that integrate Flash movies. This makes it possible to build modern user interfaces with Flash for presentation and Delphi or C++Builder for business logic.

To use transparency, place a TTransparentFlashPlayerControl component on a form and set its MakeParentTransparent property to True.

Transparency is supported only on Windows 2000 or later, and requires 16-bit or 32-bit display mode. Use the global function IsFormTransparentAvailable to check if the feature is available.

Delphi Example

if Not IsFormTransparentAvailable then
begin
  ShowMessage('Translucency based on Flash is not available');
  Application.Terminate;
end;

C++Builder Example

if (!Flashplayercontrol::IsFormTransparentAvailable())
{
  ShowMessage("Translucency based on Flash is not available");
  Application->Terminate();
}