Flash as a background

i have seen a numer of sites which use flash as a background
here is just one example but i know of many others
http://sulake.com/blog/entries/2010-06-02-Virtual_thieves_caught_in_Habbo_Hotel_Finland.ht ml
in the past i have seen comments on this forum that say that it is a complex thing to do and noththing else.
can people give me links to in depth tutorials about how to set flash as a background
and i dont mean using absolute positioning to place things on top of flash.

Hi Murray
See - http://www.pziecina.com/test_ideas/swfbg_test.html.
You will have to resize your browser slightly to see the effect, (1px will do).
I have not included the javascript to resize the flash background, nor the actionscript for the maintaining of the aspect ration, (did this in a personal trial project so it does work, see para below).
If you look at the html code you will no doubt recognize the div hack for such things, but now we have animated svg's that can be used as backgrounds and resizeable static background images I decided to abandon the idea, was never really an option in my honest opinion though, for the reasons previously stated.
PZ
Forgot to add Murray - the original swf was 320pxx350px, and I did not up-size this so please ignore the quality.
Message was edited by: pziecina

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