[TYPO3] Flash content is rendered/displayed with white space around - no way to remove? <SOLVED>

[Dr. Reiner Pietrzak]

Hi all,

as usual I found the solution myself after hours of googling. Here come
the links and explanations in case others face the same problems:
> Hi list,

> I sucessfully implemented csstyled multimedia content extensions on
> my site. 

> Installation worked well.

> I added the content of /static/setup.txt to my template setup and
> included static (from extensions) as described in the manual. Finally
> the flash animation is displayed at the correct position with all
> interaction as desired. Great extension, really. 

> But there is an ugly white space box around the flash file that cannot
> be removed and I even don't find the stylesheet settings causing the
> background of the box to be displayed in white color.

First of all I uninstalled all flash related stuff from my extensions.
The simple multimedia part of tt_content/css_styled_content of Typo3
3.8.1 seems to handle the flash part as good as all the extensions I
tried. so I had the same result as before but with less extensions
installed. Then I found a hint to the 'stable' extension
'rlmp_flashdetection' - the most comfortable one in that field after I
tried all of them - and finally installed it according to the excellent
manual. But it comes with a small bug that prevents rlmp_flashdetection
in order to process additional parameters. In the TYPO3 Board I finally
found a hint to my solution

http://typo3board.com/fpost212.html including a fix for the
malfunctioning extension resp. processing of parameters. I additionally
installed the fixed php-file provided in a link in that thread and
tadaa.. had the same result as before because I obviously didn't provide
the correct parameters. 

Now I googled for flash parameters and found the one necessary for my
solution. 

bgcolor=#xxxxxx my desired background color instead of the white color
gave me the solution. I found all the possible flash parameters and
their meaning at

http://help.globalscape.com/help/cutehtmlpro6/code/image_objet_flash.htm

Thats it for now.

> I already looked up the mailing list archives and googled for hours but didn't find anything
> helpful. Any help appreciated.

> 
Hope this helps others to find the solution sooner and encourages others
not only to find solutions but also publish and share them with others
because I found a lot of unsolved threads where possibly someone else
solved the described problem without sharing the final solution.

-- 
!positive multimedia
Dr.-Ing. Reiner Pietrzak
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30539 Hannover

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