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In IE 6 - get 'Click To Activate And Use This Control', when mousing over Flash section in page

Hi EE -

In IE 6.0 I get 'Click To Activate And Use This Control', when I mouse over the flash movie. Once I click, the alert goes away.

I've tried this,

In Page:

<script type="text/javascript" src="/js/ieupdate.js">touchflash();</script>

In script:

function touchflash()
{
      theObjects = document.getElementsByTagName("object");
      for (var i = 0; i < theObjects.length; i++) {
      theObjects[i].outerHTML = theObjects[i].outerHTML;
      }
}

Basically, a whole lotta nuthin :-) Any help here will be appreciated.

Thanks -
emc

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wotan1953

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Hi War1 -

Thanks - But I really need something that will not require the user to install a patch. I've heard there is a js solution which can be added to the code. The code effectively, does that first click (ie click to activate etc) for the user.

Hopefully, this is doable .

Thanks Again -
emc

war1

emc, I do not know of any such Javascript.

wotan1953

ASKER

Hi Folks -
Here is one!

In page:
<SCRIPT src="/js/flashLoader.js"></SCRIPT>

JS Script: flashLoader.js
document.write('<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,29,0" width="xxx" height="yyy">');
document.write(' <param name="movie" value="/flash/FLASHMOVIENAME.swf">');
document.write('<param name="quality" value="high">');
document.write('<param name="wmode" value="transparent">');
document.write('<embed src="/flash/FLASHMOVIENAME.swf" wmode="transparent" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="xxx" height="yyy"></embed>');
document.write('</object>');

This works okay for now. The only problem I have had so far is, with my most recent site developed in RadDesigner. Basically, when you open a content page (where the script call is) the editor opens with both the script call:

ie <SCRIPT src="/js/flashLoader.js"></SCRIPT>

and

the actual object code :-( If I updated, at that point, there would be 2 flash movies on my page ... I think.

So, I guess I'm good for now. War1 the link you provided:

http://www.baekdal.com/articles/Technology/microsoft-ie-activex-update

was very helpful, in arriving at this solution, so the points should go to you.

Thanks Again ee - you folks are Great!

emc

war1

emc, glad to help!

mdandeker

There are problems with the 2 solutions above:
- the patch is, as War1 mentions, temporary, and will be disabled by the MS June Security update
- the js solution was suggested by MS in their article here:http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/workshop/author/dhtml/overview/activating_activex.asp but I have found it doesn't work all the time.

I work on a website that includes several activeX controls. After the April update that made IE comply with Eolas we changed the code that includes the controls. Rather than embedding the <object> tags in the pages we insert them using JScript in an included .js file.

The embedded code looks like this:
<div id="DivDateTime"></div>
<script language="JScript">
CreateControl( 'DivDateTime','<OBJECT id="DTP"
codeBase="../Packages/DateTime.CAB#version=123" classid="CLSID:xxxx"
VIEWASTEXT><PARAM NAME="foo" VALUE="bar><SPAN STYLE="COLOR:red">ActiveX
control [DateTime] failed to load </SPAN></OBJECT>');
</script>

and the included js file just contains one function:
function CreateControl(ElementId, innerHTML)
{
var d = document.getElementById(ElementId);
d.innerHTML = innerHTML;
}

This solution works 99% of the time, but every now and then IE will decide that I need to click on every ActiveX control to activate before I can use it. A refresh of the page doesn't seem to resolve the issue, but closing IE and opening it again does. Any other ideas?