You can set how visible background holder for buttons is, or if you don't like it you can hide (disable it) and only buttons will appear on stage. Over 20 parameters of banner rotator can be changed via XML . Below are some of them: - dimensions, visibility and position of text container of each banner - image size - time of each tween (seconds) - time each slide is shown (milliseconds) - visibility of text - URL for each image of each banner - alpha value of background holder for buttons - hide/unhide number buttons, forward buttons or all buttons