Work Arounds For "click To Activate And Use This Control"
Maybe i missed a conversation but does any one have a work around, possibly not using document.write
Thanks
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Click To Activate This Control.. WTF?
Whats this about?
Anything in flash now, i have to click once before i can use it?
Is this from software i've installed, or is this a new dumbass windows update thats just as fooking stupid as the "IE has blocked this popup because i can"
Sites with flash menus have become a pain in the arrse.
If it is a windows update, they should ask people what they fooking want before doing stuff like this!
If its just some software i've installed. im an idiot.
Cheers all.
Click To Activate And Use This Control ?
I have noticed this coming up on websites I have.
"Click to activate and use this control"
It's something to do with plug-ins 'Eolas' and microsoft but basically i want to know the easiest way around it.
help?
shaf
? Click To Activate And Use This Control ?
When I uploaded my web page which has a ".swf" file in it, the rollover effects in my Flash movie won't work.
Instead, a tool tip appears saying "Click to activate and use this control."
How do I get the .swf movie to load with all controls (objects with rollover affects) enabled from the start?
Thanks for your help.
Tony
www.tonytraveis.com
Click To Activate And Use This Control
hi flashkit,
can anyone tell me why when i mouseover on a flash movie it gives me this message tooltip:
click to activate and use this control
It never used to do this before but i was making some pages with javascript and this suddenly happened. I've scanned for a virus but i'm not infected.
Tks for your reply.
Intan
Click Here To Activate And Use This Control?
While using Internet Explorer (PC, version 6.0.2900.2180) on some computers, and hovering the mouse over any Flash element, I get a small balloon message next to the cursor that says:
"Click here to activate and use this control." On those same computers, it also takes two clicks to make the flash button or whatever, run. And, while the cursor is over the element, the element gets a thin highlighting border around it (even if hovering a non-link portion of the flash movie).
I also noticed that, while using other pc computers-also running the same version of I.E. and Windows XP-the message doesn't appear and only requires a single click to activate any button on that flash element.
I notice this on many, many other sites, so it's not my server. On some other sites, it doesn't happen.
This doesn't happen in Firefox or anything else. I haven't been able to test this on Macs.
Does anyone recognize this? The site I'm working on is:
http://www.xmanpuzzles.com.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks.
Waizen
Click To Activate Control
Hi,
i placed my first ever swf within the PHP page and when i access to webpage via my browser, it asks me to click on the control to activate it.
basically this is disturbing as my buttons/links available in my flash animation are not active and this is the only way to activate them (basically to make the hand pointer mouse visible...if not, a standard mouse pointer is visible).
how can i do to avoid such issue ? i mean to avoid user to click on the flash, to make the flash animation react normaly.
thanks a lot,
A
Click To Activate Control
Why do I get a popup upon arriving at my page that says " Click to activate control". It doesn't allow the button that is designed with a rollover effect to work until I first click somewhee on the page. This is making me have to double click every button to get the action I am asking for from it to work.
I am using explorer version 6. However, when I use another users firefox brouser I do not see this message " Click to activate control", it works as I intended it to.
Can anybody tell me what I am doing wrong?
'Click To Activate And Use This Control'
I've only completed an 8 week evening introductory course to Flash so please forgive my ignorance.
When I import .swf files into my Website they are all showing the message 'Click to activate and use this control' even when there is no interactivity built into the file. How do I prevent this from happening?
Also the buttons all require two clicks to navigate to the hyperlink which some people are associating with the buttons not working - how do I resolve this problem?
Many thanks
Rockin Amoeba
Click To Activate And Use This Control
hi,
I have problem, when i run my .swf in browser i am getting one message that " Click to activate and use this control"...is there any solution to enable this message(alt tag)..
Click To Activate This Control
when i mouse over my movie in a browser a dashed box appears around it and a text box comes up saying click to activate this control. how do i stop this?
Click To Activate And Use This Control?
when i create a swf online people will have to click once to activate it, how do i disable it?
i believe it is not a browser setting because some other website i go to doesn't have this function, must be something with my settings.
can anyone teach me how to disable it?
thanks
Click To Activate And Use This Control
Hi,
When I create a Flash site and open it in a browser, I get first need to click the movie to activate it and be able to use it (the famous "click to activate and use this control"). However, I noticed that some (a lot?) Flash sites don't need to be activated. How can this be done?
Thnx in advance,
Grenouille
'click To Activate And Use This Control'
Hi...
Microsoft released an update to Explorer in February 2006 that causes a Flash movie embedded on a HTML page to show a box around it and a popup text that reads 'click to activate and use this control'.
I've looked at the tech notes from Microsoft and Adobe, and also downloaded the latest fixes / updates for Flash and Dreamweaver that are supposed to fix this, but I am still struggling to implement this on all the other websites.
Does anyone know a quick plain speaking fix that doesn't go around the swings and roundabouts, but just works?
Thanks in advance...
Click Here To Activate This Control?
Has anyone else noticed this? A few days ago I did a Windows update and ever since all flash embedded in html pages looks like this in Internet Explorer...
I now have to click the flash object to activate it, and until I do it has a wierd blurry line around it when I mouse over.
Anyone got a work around for this yet? It looks dreadful.
Click To Activate And Use This Control
Hi
Does anyone knows how to deactivate the new Internet Explorer's problem: the one that appears in the swf files viewed on Internet Explorer?:
Click to activate and use this control... For example:
http://www.fordvehicles.com
P.D. Just in case... you need to view it on Internet Explorer.
EASY FIX For Click To Activate This Control
There are three parts to fix:
1. An external JavaScript file
2. An onload Function
3. A document.write for those using a script to determine if the browser can play flash.
If you are using a browser/flash sniffer script, place this after the closing object tag:document.write('<script type="text/javascript" src="ieflshupdt.js"></script>');This is the JavaScript for the external script 'ieflshupdt.js' :function fixFlash() {
theObjects = document.getElementsByTagName("object");
for (var i = 0; i < theObjects.length; i++) {
theObjects[i].outerHTML = theObjects[i].outerHTML;
}
}Place this in the body tag:onload="fixFlash();"This is by far the easiest and most painless of the fixes and works with any browser using the microsoft ie engine.
Click To Activate And Use This Control Message
Does anyone know why i keep getting this and how to get rid of it? it started when i upgraded from IE 6 to IE 7. Any help would be appreciated. i must add that i'm not a web developer and every help out there seems to be for web developing. I just want an overall universal fix.
Edited: 05/02/2007 at 10:38:10 AM by bamahusker1969
Click To Activate And Use This Control - Message In IE
GET THE FIX HERE
There is another explanation here, which also offers the downloads for the fix. It also contains some background information on the problem and politics regarding IE.
http://capitalhead.com/articles/clic...-kb912812.aspx
Flash Detect - Click To Activate And Use This Control
Ok Ive been scratching my head on this problem for a while, well its really not a problem I guess its just what method works best.
Ive been reading about how flash 8 has a better method of detecting flash versions and flash in general. I have downloaded the flash detection kit from adobe im not really happy with all the code you need to inject, so Ive been using a script from http://blog.deconcept.com/flashobject/ seems to do everything i need but I was just wondering what others are using, I view many high end flash websites from some very highend compaines but it seems that you still need to double click on the flash in order for it function, thanks to Microsoft!!! Just wondering why so many websites are still not removing this restriction in thier flash?
Click To Activate & Use This Control , Every Time A Window Is Opened
Every time I load a page with IE6 on which there is a flash movie , as I drag the mouse onto the movie , all the movie area behaves as a hit area button , even movies which have no button.
Then the following message comes up : Click to activate and to use this control ;
As nothing has been changed by my will it can only have been changed by itself ?!
How to solve this ?
anyone to help me out , thanks
[F8] Getting Rid Of "Click Here To Activate Control" Message With Flash Elements.
With the new IE 7 when ever you have flash elements anywhere in a page you need to click on them to make then active and start to interact with then.
So like you mouse over and there is this stupid little border that appears around the flash element and then this little pop-up says "click here to active and use this control." Since I'm building a site for a client and most of the content is in HTML but the interface is driven by flash I was wondering if any one knew a way to side step this problem and have it be when the user enters the page the flash control are already active and you don't need to click on them to use them.
thx for the assistance.
JT
Can This Bugging Message Be Hidden? - "Click To Activate And Use Control"
Hi, I have basic Flash animation, but when you scroll over it with the mouse it pops up the message "Click to activate and use control". I've seen a lot of talk about this.... and many attempts to turn it off, but in IE 7.0 I cannot find a solution or know what I should do. Is there any way to turn this message off? It seems redundant since there are actually no working controls in my instance with this Flash object.... and clicking it as the message prompts does absolutely nothing. For my business this is a real problem. Thank you for insights or a working solution for me! :) -alxasa
Edited: 11/28/2006 at 11:37:31 AM by Alxasa
"click To Activate And Use Control" In Internet Explorer
I've just put my first commercial site together, and I've used Flash for the buttons.
In IE, Opera and Safari the user has to click on a button before it'll play its initial animation, and again to use the button.
There's also a nasty outline.
http://www.bds-europe.com/
Please could someone tell me where I'm going wrong?
Thanks,
Andy
"Click To Activate This Control" How Can I Cancell This Process?
Hi dudes,
This is my second thread in 2mins now. Anyway, you see when a page is opened on browser (internet explorer), to use a flash file which is on the page you have to click on it once (example:www.m-at.co.uk). How can I cancel this activation process?
Cheers,
Liner986
"Click To Activate This Control" Further Problems...
just to say firstly i have applied the javascript fix for this and it works fine, i want to know how to "lock" the movie so people cannot zoom in on it, i know the usual terminology to put in would be something like "menu=false" but can somebody give me a code so that people cannot zoom in.
hope this is clear?
Thanks
How To Suppress The "Click To Activate And Use This Control"
Hi
I have created a flash 8 movie that is a two level menu system. The flash movie works fine, except that when I add it to a HTML web page in dreamweaver, and open the page in the browser, I get the message "Click to activate and use this control" when I hover over the flash menu. Once I click or press the spacebase, the menu comes to life.
How can I suppress the message "Click to activate and use this control" and ensure the menu is activated automatically?
Help!
Simon
[MX] "click Here To Activate This Control" Message?
This message is showing up along with a dotted border on a flash I've created.
"click here to activate this control"
My client sees it on his machine (explorer browser) but I can't seem to recreate it. I'm not sure of the version of explorer he has.
Has anyone seen this? Can anyone give me advise on how I can fix it so that it doesn't show up?
Any help would be welcome!
Thanks,
Sherrables
Prevent "click To Activate And Use This Control"
Latest Microsoft security update is causing flash in web pages viewed in Internet Explorer to show a frame border with a message saying "click here to activate and use this control". Is there any workaround to prevent this messgae? Thanks.
IE And Flash "click To Activate This Control"?
This might have something to do with the IE/embed lawsuit, I'm not sure. But when I load my flash movie IE6 wants me to "click to activate this control" which kind of stinks. The rollovers and release events won't work until the user clicks the image. Is there any way to avoid this?
I'm only using the code to embed the flash on my page from what the "publish" generates from Flash. I know there are other ways to embed Flash in a page - maybe one of those ways would avoid this?
"Click To Activate This Control" IE Issue
How do I fix the issue with IE when users get the
I keep getting "Click to activate this control" on the flash items (IE6, xp pro)
problem.
Anyone know how to deal with that?
"Click To Activate And Use This Control" Problem In IE
Hello All,
Since I am a newb here, I must assume this topic may already have been covered, and if it has, you can delete this thread, but if not, it may make a good sticky topic for a while.
Anyway, here goes. I recently designed a flash index page for a site complete with nav bar, and other cool stuff. Turns out that Microsoft has updated their browsers (ALL of them) to block any embedded object until the user clicks on it to activate. Any control, even an Ad banner is affected. IE shows a tooltip when you hover over the control that says "Click to activate and use this control". The user then has to click once to activate and then click again to press a button or click a link displayed by the Flash or Java applet. You can only imagine the pain this has caused developers as well as end-users. It affects any web page using the APPLET, EMBED, or OBJECT elements loading an ActiveX control. This goes for Javascript, Flash, Quicktime, Adobe Reader, Real player, and of all things, Media player (can you believe M$ would shoot themselves in the foot like that? I mean really, Media Player?!) Honestly, it amazes me to think about all of the time and money developers have wasted trying to work around Microsoft and all of their retarded, selfish antics. But I wouldn't have even known about all of this if I hadn't started developing with Flash, since I use Firefox for my browsing, and of course, Firefox, THE only browser IMHO, has no problem with embedding objects, or anything else having to do with good Web Dev for that matter. Well, enough of that.
So I did some poking around, and there are a lot of people with work-arounds out there. Adobe has their own solution which works perfectly . I have installed the plugin and now when I publish my SWF to html, Adobe writes a .js file to accompany the html. BTW, this particular solution by Adobe is about 125 lines of code- chew on that for a while!
So, here is the article from Adobe, and here is the plug-in. As far as Java script and Quicktime, etc, I've found a few things out there, but nothing with any guarantee like Adobe, and since this is a Flash forum, I thought the above info with the links would be useful, at least to any newbs here. Of course if anyone here knows of any good work arounds for Quicktime, Javascript, etc for this particular problem I would appreciate a link.
Again, if this has already been covered elsewhere in the forum, go ahead and delete this thread. If not,I hope this can be a sticky topic for a while, because in all honesty, I was starting to have that old itch to choke the living sh*t out of Bill Gates yet again! And I am positive I am not the only one who feels this way...
Hope this post is helpful.
"click To Activate And Use This Control" Help
Hello,
I'm using Flash 8 and I've dowloaded this .zip file http://flashmechanic.net/examples/F...jectPublish.zip.
I installed this file FlashObjectPublish.mxp and uploaded flashobject.js to my site. I was under the impression that I didn't have to place any code in my html pages if I installed this .mxp file.
What do I need to do?
www.chriswareonline.com - customers are going to get upset. Please help........
"Click To Activate And Use This Control"
I just updated my website http://www.tomegfx.com/ and noticed that every time I roll over my site I get this selection box around all my flash content and a pop up saying "Click to activate and use this control." I then noticed that every site that has flash content does the same thing when I roll over its flash content. If I click the flash graphic, the flash piece then works corrently.
Does anyone know how to fix this?!! I'm thinking it has something to do with a Microsoft security update that was done automatically.
Attached is a jpg screen shot I took so people could see this.
Thanks for any help,
Jeff
[F8] "Click To Activate This Control"
Hello Community,
I am a new user to Flash and have now made it through the first "movie" and have it posted to my website/domain. When it first loads I get a message "click to activate the control" which seems to get things moving. I was told today that there is a way to get my site to load and start automatically as long as the viewer has the proper "add ins" but need a litttle help finding the right button to get this going. Any suggestions?
My site is www.rlbphoto.net
Thanks in advance.
Roy
"Click To Activate And Use This Control"
anyone know how to get around the "Click to activate and use this control" on any flash file on an html page?
(basically let the user skip this step when clicking)
I'm guessing its a simple setting in Dreamweaver?
thanks!!
"Click To Activate And Use This Control"?
Hey All-
I'm new here so hello.
Here's my problem. After publishing my Flash movie I get the above message "Click to Activate and Use This Control" on mouse-over like the whole movie is a button until I click it, then the buttons work as normal.
Does anyone know about this? I've checked in the publishing options thinking it was something there, but can't find anything.
Thanks in advance for any help
"click Here To Activate And Use This Control"
Hi,
Im building a webpage, with a flash menu, and im wondering how (in IE) to get rid of this message "click here to activate and use this control" when i go and try to use the flash menu.
http://www.geocities.com/jvp02/ps for a look at it.
Thanks!!
"click To Activate And Use This Control" Fix For 100%
I am using Flash 8.
I followed Adobe's fix for this and it works.
If I set the width and height to a hardcoded value, it works. If I set the width and height to 100%, it defaults to the size of what I created the swf file.
How would I set the .swf to Width 100% X Height 100% ?
"Click To Activate And Use The Control"
Hi,
Lately, when i navigate on flash sites, or sites that have flash on them, when i roll my mouse over the flash object, i get a rectange around the flash, and have to click to "activate" the flash, even if there are no buttons on the flash.
It's pretty anoying, as my site contains buttons, and the users will have to click on the flash, to activate it, to then click on the buttons, and besides, doesn't look too good with a grey rectangle around my flash when a user scrolls his mouse over it.
My question is:
Does this rectangle appear due to a patch lately installed (Windows patch?)
Is this rectangle some kind of setting, that i can turn off
If not, there must be a script that takes away the rectangle, or something similar, because all of the "bigger" sites dont have this problem...
--> www.futuremark.com
www.macromedia.com
I have attached an image of the rectangle i get, when i scroll over my mouse on a flash object.
Thanks for your help.
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