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Active X Control In Flash Nav Bar In IE6
Hey guys,

I have a flash based nav bar that I am using for a HTML site. Works fin in FireFox but in IE6 explorer when you load the page there is a disclaimer saying that you are accessing a page that uses Active X controls and that it may be used to control your computer. And even after you accept that content when you mouse over the menu a selection box appears around the transparent object and aome ALT TEXT says to click or press space bar to activate the control. What is the deal and how can I get around this. I have never seen it on other sites... Why am I so special!

Thanks

dptoot

[F8] Pleeeeeeeeease Help Active X Control
I can not figure this out and everything I have read online and tried has not worked either- This is what I am trying to do and if anyone could help I would be really really appreciative.

I am trying to embed this file (sounds/Track1-Welcome.wav) into the page so that it plays automatically when the page opens. However it triggers that dang Active X control warning. I understand WHY I get the Active X warning but do not understand how to get this page to load and play WITHOUT triggering the active X. If someone could be really specific ( speak slow I am blonde) ... Surely there must be at least one kind soul who could help a sista out! Thanks

Trouble Making The Active Content Update Work
Hello,

Please note, this is not a "What do I do about the white box?" question as I've already downloaded the updates, installed them, and published new .swf and .html files out of flash. This is more of a "What am I doing wrong?" question.

I downloaded and installed the update as stated on the Adobe Flash TechNote page

I received a confirmation message in Flash that the Apple Active Content update worked and have a "AC_RunActiveContent.js" file.

I brought my updated .swf file into Dreamweaver, and resaved my index.html file (my website's homepage which contains the updated .swf file). I uploaded the following files to my server:

1)my index.html file
2)my updated .swf file created from Flash
3)the updated .html file created from Flash (I don't think this is doing anything, but I uploaded it anyways-better to have it than not I figure)
4)the AC_RunActiveContent.js

I did everything that the Flash TechNotes told me to, so I'm wondering why this is not working. The white square still appears asking for confirmation, even though I have already uploaded all the files needed for the update.

Does it have to do with putting the .swf file into Dreamweaver? If so, this update does not help me at all, because I need to use the .swf in Dreamweaver to make a complete website.

Here are the sites:

http://freevox.us

This one is my main page created in Dreamweaver. If you view this in IE you will see the white box asking for confirmation.

Here is just the updated .html file that was created from Flash:

http://freevox.us/F-9.html

You will notice that here there is no problem with the confimation box.

If this is just a matter of putting the code in the right place in the Dreamweaver file, perhaps I can post my code and someone can help me find the right location to paste the active content code.

Thanks for any help you can offer.

{F8} Button Active Area Control
I have button thats a movie, on rollover the button expands with some text below it, the problem is the active area of the button also enlarges , I want the active area to stay the same.

any ideas?
thanks
Ant

Loading Flash From An Active X Control?
Does anyone know how and if it's possible to load flash from inside an active X control. And also if that would increase the security of decompiling the flash?

Press Spacebar Or Enter To Active This Control
When my Flash images load on the web page I have suddenly began to get the above message. It is also accompanied by a gray box.
I must have set or unset a trigger somewhere.
Any ideas.

Brian

Having The Active X Control Removed On Site Entrance
I created a flash site and whenever I go to it, when I hover the mouse over it has a type of "marquee" looking box go around it and I believe this is one of the active X security controls that is enabled for the browser. In order to start using the functionality of the site, I have to click once in order to make it go away, then I am able to browse around the site.

How can I remove this? I discovered that on some flash sites that I go to, it is removed.

Publishing Flash Movie Error Click To Active And Use This Control
publishing flash movie error:

click to active and use this control, how do i make this go away so when I view the flash sit it will just come up?

Script To Correct "click To Active&use This Control" : Can´t Manage To Make It Work
script to correct "click to active&use this control" : can´t manage to make it work

I´ve tried to switch the flash embed code as per Kirupa´s tutorial

(http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flash8/flash_fix.htm)

but I´ve got an error message:

Line 2 , character 2 , error : invalid character code : 0

The flash file does not even load ;

I´ve pasted the script below as it is on my page just for you to take a look
ANy hint ?
thanks

obs 1: Line 2 is the <head> tag in my case

obs 2: = I have a doubt on how to address this line, flashobjects/pool_mc_mouseon.swf.js > , it seems to be a blend of js and swf ; in my case the .swf file is in a folder and .js in another ;

Quote:

Quote:

....
<head>
<script src="flashobjects/pool_mc_mouseon.swf.js"></script>
</head>

<body>

<script type="text/javascript" src="flashobject/pool_mc_mouseon.js"></script>

<div id="flashcontent" style="width: 255px; height: 190px"></div>

<script type="text/javascript">
var fo = new FlashObject("flashobjects/pool_mc_mouseon.swf", "animationName", "255", "190", "8", "#FFFFFF");
fo.addParam("allowScriptAccess", "sameDomain");
fo.addParam("quality", "high");
fo.addParam("scale", "noscale");
fo.addParam("loop", "false");
fo.write("flashcontent");
</script>

</body>.........

Eolus : damn it

Trouble With Mc Control - Some Help Please
I cannot see what´s wrong , perhaps someone could tell me :

Movieclip feltipen1 controls movieclip feltipen2 by means :
_level10.feltipen2.gotoAndPlay("frame2");

However feltipen2 does not control feltipen1 :
_level10.feltipen1.gotoAndPlay("frame15");

Movie clips and frames have been properly labeled ,
but feltipen2 does not trigger feltipen1 ;
It does not make any sense.
Why ? Any ideas ?
Thank you

Having Trouble With Volume Control
Ok..... ive been trying to do this for ages now and its not been workin.

ok i have a button on screen which when pressed a red box slides up to view on screen. on the red box is a volume control slider which adjusts the volume of some music, when the volume has been set the button gets pressed again for the red box to slide down and dissapear of screen

Trouble With Audio Control....could You Help Me? :(
all the problems have been fixed, thank you for your support.

Having Trouble With Keyboard Control
I'm in the beginning stages of creating a game (still teaching myself actionscript...), and I'm making one of those old-fashioned vertical scrolling, third person shooters. I've already created my ship in another program, and imported it into my library. I've created two frames, and placed a function controlling the keyboard movements in the second frame. However, when I test my movie, I can see the ship, but cannot move it. Can someone please look at my code and tell me where I went wrong? I've looked in a couple of texts as well as consulting three different forums, and I still can't get it...

ActionScript Code:
function moveShip () {
if (key.isDown (Key.RIGHT)) {
goodGuy._x+=dx;
} else if (key.isDown (Key.UP)) {
goodGuy._y=+dy;
} else if (key.isDown(Key.LEFT)) {
goodGuy._x-=dx;
} else if (key.isDown(Key.DOWN)) {
goodGuy._y-=dy;
}}

Huge Dinamic Timeline Control Trouble
Hi, here´s a freaking hard question (to elaborate e to solve )

I´m developing a web class. It has an swf interface that loads (through loadmovies) several swfs in itself (the classes). My inteface has a dinamic timeline so the user can control the screen/class that´s showing, like he´s watching a movie.

The trouble is that the animations on the these screens are all movieclips inside the main stage, each begining at a diferent point and having diferent lenghts. The hierarchy is something like this:

- SWF Interface (where is the dinamic timeline), that loads:
- SWF Class 1
in SWF Class 1, I have:
- MC 1 (a movie clip at the main stage), and in it:
- Several movieclips (Anime 1, Anime 2, etc.;
each begining at a diferent point and
having diferent lenghts)

The problem is that when I move the dinamic timeline, the things that are directly at MC 1 (main stage), work well, but the movieclips (Anime 1, Anime 2, etc.) get all screwed up. For example, if I move forward or back, the movieclips begin again, no matter where I´m at the dinamic timeline and get out of sync with the voice and the whole screen.

I´d like to know if it´s possible to control with a dinamic timeline several movieclips inside a swf that in turn is loaded in the main swf interface that holds the dinamic timeline.

Thanks a lot.

Drawing A Curved Line (trouble W/ Control Point)
I'm having a tough time trying to dynamically figure out what a control point should be between a start and end point. I would like to consistently get a soft curve between the two points. The ideal curve would look something like this:
http://www.actionscript.org/resources/content_images/4/steps.gif

My problem comes in when I need to figure out the math to get the control point (p1 in that graphic). I see a lot of code out there drawing a sine curve or something more detailed, but I'm getting lost when it's just one curve. Ideally, I think what I'm looking for is a function along these lines:

Code:
function drawCurvedLine(target_mc,startX,startY,endX,endY,curveAngle){
...
}
The "curveAngle" argument would be a degree like 30, 45, etc...

If anybody can help, I would appreciate it greatly. If I'm not thinking about this correctly, let me know.

Drawing A Curved Line (trouble W/ Control Point)
I'm having a tough time trying to dynamically figure out what a control point should be between a start and end point. I would like to consistently get a soft curve between the two points. The ideal curve would look something like this:
http://www.actionscript.org/resource...es/4/steps.gif

My problem comes in when I need to figure out the math to get the control point (p1 in that graphic). I see a lot of code out there drawing a sine curve or something more detailed, but I'm getting lost when it's just one curve. Ideally, I think what I'm looking for is a function along these lines:

ActionScript Code:
function drawCurvedLine(target_mc,startX,startY,endX,endY,curveAngle){
...
}

The "curveAngle" argument would be a degree like 30, 45, etc...

If anybody can help, I would appreciate it greatly. If I'm not thinking about this correctly, let me know.

Flash 8 -- Trouble With Getting Button To Control Parent Movie Clip
I am making an e-learning where i have a shell file that holds a movie clip that loads in the lesson pages as they are called from a separate actionscript file. in the actionscript file, i have a global variable adds or subtracts, and then functions which place the lesson pages in the shell, etc. at the end of one of the lesson pages, i have a movie clip button that i need to remove itself and advance the user to the next page in the lesson.

my question is, how do i get the button on one lesson page to unload that lesson page from the shell movie clip, and then advance the user to the next part of the lesson?

Active, De-active Script
hello im trying to write a script to set a MC value to active onRollOver and deactive when you mouseOver another MC.

when each button becomes active it also executes it's own set of functions.

can someone help me please get this started, thanks in advance!

Active Link & Not Active
Hello!
I can't use my home page in internet. I need to make the active link when the section is chosen.
How can I make ActionScripts?

Sound Control With Pause Button As Well As Timeline Control
Hi there

I have a flash page, with a ambient track playing. I added a pause and play button. So you press the button then it stops, then you press it again then it plays...

So now i want to make it so that if you go to the 'WORK' page on the site, wich is on its own frame, and wich has different buttons linking to it, then i want the sound to switch off when i am on the work page as well.
So if the background ambient music plays, and you go to work then the sound switches off. Untill you switch it back on again
How is the best way for me to do that?

LoadMovie Trouble Trouble Troubles
hello,

i'm having a little bit of trouble here trying to load multiple movies into the same container. not all at one time. like this:

when a button is clicked this happens in my preloader clip which is located in my _root movie:

********************************
// set vars
sectionMovie = _root.currentSection + ".swf";

// un/load movie
unloadMovie("_root.SectionContent");
loadMovie(sectionMovie, "_root.SectionContent");
********************************

then the next frame of the preloader says:

********************************
// get the percent of the movie loaded
bytesLoaded = _root.sectionContent.getBytesLoaded();
bytesTotal = _root.sectionContent.getBytesTotal();
percentLoaded = int((bytesLoaded / bytesTotal)*100);

// if it's loaded then continue
if (percentLoaded == 100) {
this.gotoAndStop (1);
}
********************************

it all seems like it should work. i click "button1" which loads "movie1.swf" perfectly. then i click "button2" and it will unload the movie fine, but it just stops when it gets to "loadMovie"... anyone know what is happening?

thakns in advance for the help, it's a school project...mwaahaha!

xo

Active X
HI,
Where I can find ActiveX control for Flash MX like exe file. At macromedia.com I can not find file to download.

I need it as soon as possible.

Best regards

Asking For Active X
EDIT:

never mind, me stupid

Active X Fix?
I recently installed the express flash player script onto this page http://www.itisredmovie.com/itisred/main.htm
and as far as i know it seems to work but now I need to include a script that lets flash run on IE without clicking on the page to activate it. I've installed the extension needed for this but I do not know how to apply the script in conjunction with the express install. If i could get any extra help with that I think i would be on my way to perfection....I'm not really good at writing javascript only copying and pasting

[CS3] If Active
Hello all. I have here a simple statement that checks if user is using the button and if not, plays the over state. But somehow, it doesn't work. Please help.

First I tell it that if user rolls over the button, isb1active becomes true, and when user rolls out of it, it becomes false.

Code:
this.b1.onRollOver = function() {

b1.gotoAndPlay("_over");
isb1active = true;
}

this.b1.onRollOut = function() {

b1.gotoAndPlay("_down");
isb1active = false;
}
Then when I need the button to animate later on its own, it checks first if the user is using it or not.

Code:
if (isb1active == true) {
b1.gotoAndStop("_deja");
} else {
b1.gotoAndPlay("_over");
}
b1.enabled = false;
And at the end, it goes down again but only if user isn't using it.

Code:
if (isb1active == true) {
b1.gotoAndStop(10);
} else {
b1.gotoAndPlay("_down");
}
b1.enabled = true;
And when user goes over it, it works but when the user rolls out of it, it doesn't change isb1active to false, or if it does, nothing happens.

Please help,
cheers...rodney

Active X
Hello,
Does anyone know how to stop the active x control in IE from interfering with my flash website? I know it is a security feature of ie, and I could turn it off in the browser, but I want other people with the default security settings to be able to enter my site easily. Firefox and Netscape do not have this problem, only IE 6 and 7....

The Problem: Every time I enter a new page on my flash web site there is a box around the content that says 'click to activate and use this control' It is a small issue, but it may cause confusion with some people, and it just doesn't look right....

The URL: http//:www.monsterclaw.com

Please check it out and if anyone has an answer it would be greatly appreciated.

Active X
Flash controls fail to work with the latest active x update. So if you have an swf embedded in an html document and you're using a any kind of click on controls in flash you have to first click on the flash file before it works.

I downloaded the fix from the flash website (Flash Active Content Update). It works fine as long as the swf file is in the same folder as the html folder. If I try to put the .swf file in another folder it doesn't work even if I publish it that way.

Has anybody else noticed this or had the same problem or know a solution besides keeping them in the same folder?

Thanks....

Which Textfield Is Active?
Hi everybody,

I've got five Textfields on one Frame. The User has to make an entry. It will be evaluated. The User has also the possibility to click on a 'solution' button which will display the right answer in the active Textfield. My problem is, how can i detect which one of the five Textfields is active. I made several trials with the Selection.getFocus() and -setFocus() Objects. Without success, unhappily.:-(

I'm thankful for every help

thanx d.c.g.

Active Buttons
Hello,
I have a manu with several buttons.
The effect I want is that when a button is clicked, it causes an animation to play(I know how to do that), and I need the button to change color. One of the ways that I was adviced, was that on release of the button I jump to the "n" frame where the button has the right color, but if I have 10-15 buttons, this way is a bot messy with great numbers of buttons.
Is there another way to do upper mentioned effect ?
Thank you in advance,
CZealot
P.S. I am not very good at ActionScripting, and a more detailed answer would be welcome.

Buttons Below Still Active
Hi,
I have a problem with my calender since I added a second year.
http://www.visi.com/~mgason/calendar/calendar.htm

problem is this, I use swap depth to flip between years. The dates indicate correctly in all years, but today I noticed that buttons in the year underneath stay active.
So if you are in 2003 for instance and click march 23rd (even though its not hi-lited) you in fact are clicking march 23 2002 in the movie beneath. try it.

any way to kill those underlying buttons?

mark
(yes I know its just like stuff by joshua davis! I stole the concept. but it works, I figured the code out myself a long time ago, and I only do flash for fun, never made a penny from it)

Active Button
I'm trying to figure out how to keep a button in the over state when it's clicked and then go back to normal when another button is clicked.

Thanks for the help!

Active Button?
Hia there

What i want to do

I have a Button about me. When I click on the Button i will get the layer aboutme...Now the Button should stay white (active)...So you can see immediately where you are on the homepage...

How can I do that? Do I have to programm the Button?

Thanx for your help

adrian

Run Active X Disabled, Now What?
It was brought to my attention that if an end user disables Run Active X in their security in IE that my flash site doesn't load, I felt better when www.2advanced.com (my flash idols) didn't load either, but does anyone know a work around to this? My site, that I get about 10 minutes aday to work on is www.fpsweb.org ...thanks in advance

Active X Rotation?
I'm trying to rotate a movie clip after clicking a button.
The movie clip rotates as i want i to, but it doesn't do it in an animate fashion.

I'm trying to not use a tween because there seems there would be more complication with how it rotates, because I want it to rotate both left and right.

I tried a copy of someone's setInterval() code but there were too many holes in the code for something to go wrong.

Then using my previous programming background I tried a for next loop.
//rotate right
for( a = 0; a < 90; a++)
{
Links._rotation++;
}

//rotate left
for( a = 90; a > 0; a--)
{
Links._rotation--;
}

It rotates in the blink of an eye.
is there a pause method to slow it down?

Or any other possible way to do this?

Please help....

Active Window
Hi, I feel really stupid posting this, but I cant figure out what the heck is going wrong.
Ok so im trying to make a flash that will simulate windows. I got my windows to min, close and resize and drag. Now im trying to make an active window thing, were if clicked, the MovieClip will come to the front. So inside my MC window, i have on the button
this.swapDepths(_root.getNextHighestDepth()-1);
so that it will find the highest depth in the MC that is holding the window MC, wich I called menu.
So i have multiple instinces of the window MC in the menu MC. So when the bar is clicked on one of windows MC, it does wut I want, it comes to the front. But wen I "close" the window MC's (it doesnt actualy leave the timeline, the window mc goes to a frame with nothing on it) and duplicate them, the duplicated MCs do not come to the front wen I click on the bar. I have the duplicates depths set to incrimate by 1 everytime they r dupliacted. I dunno, mabey something with the duplicates depths throws it off.

edit~~
another attempt I made was making the duplicated movies depths to be
getNextHighestDepth()
but when clicked, the newest MC replaces the old one, which means the depth is allready taken, which is confusing because getNextHighestDepth() is supose to get the next depth thats not taken. I dunno :-(

Active Buttons
I'm not really new to flash ... but never done this before and just can't seem to think of how to do it. And sense he search button on the forums is gone, and the Search Site feature breaks on me ... well I'll ask

I have a button it does a color fade with I hover over it. How do I make it stay on the over animation if it is clicked on? To show it is the active page?

Active Buttons
hi, i got 2 buttons of which only but2 controls a mc ('clip1'). the two buttons are mcs also and should look like activ/not activ. normally they work but they don't when i put them in my movie. the layer above them contains the AS for controlling the mcs. so what i would need is the following: but1 should look activ (clip 'detail' plays) but2 is not activ then. when clicking but2 clip1 plays and but2 is activ whereas but1 is not activ. sorry that i can't describe it better. i think you will see the problem. i would be really thankful for any help as it is a really urgent...
see the file attached...

noodle

Need Some Help With An Active Menu.
Hi guys. This is my site: www.simnhl.tk

If u look at the menu, u can see i made the design so i could learn how to make an active menu. What i mean, is that i want, when someone enters, the menu closed, but when he clicks on the arrow pointing down, the menu opens, and all the buttons that are there now appears, then when we click on upper arrow, it closes

Could u help me?? I am a complete noob, didn't even started using Flash MX professional 2004.

Active X Problem
Everytime I preview the site I am building, my explorer blocks it as a potentially dangerous site and I always have to click to allow blocked content.

I have changed my security settings in explorer but this still happens, however when regular surfing, I have never come across any sites where this happens. And I know that some sites are complete flash sites. Do I need to do something to my flash file to bypass this? I don't want to to happen to every viewer who visits the site or no one will enter or come back.

Also, someone posted a link to a Harry Potter site that give a warning about the pop up blocker being detected and asks the user to turn it off then re-enter the site, how do you script that and where???

Active Search
I'm trying to follow Flash Junkie's "Active Search tutorial".
When I open the SWF from the ZIP file (downloaded from flashkit) the links work perfectly. However, when I open Active_Search_List.fla, then publish it (without modifying it from how it came out of the ZIP) the links won't work. Instead of going to MTV.com, the browser address shows "http:/%20/www.mtv.com".

Is this a version issue since the original was posted so long ago?

I've seen several posts regarding the same issues but no responses. Can one of the heavyweights throw a punch at this?

Anything would be of great help.

Thanks!

Andy

Active Search - Willing To Pay For Help
I'm trying to follow Flash Junkie's "Active Search tutorial".
When I open the SWF from the ZIP file (downloaded from flashkit) the links work perfectly. However, when I open Active_Search_List.fla, then publish it (without modifying it from how it came out of the ZIP) the links won't work. Instead of going to MTV.com, the browser address shows "http:/%20/www.mtv.com".

Is this a version issue since the original was posted so long ago?

I've seen several posts regarding the same issues but no responses. Can one of the heavyweights throw a punch at this?

Anything would be of great help. I'm frustrated enough to pay someone for help. e-mail me if you are interested. ryffco@bellsouth.net

Thanks!

Andy

How To Tell If A SWF Is Active/deactive
Hi
When you click outside a Flash movie, in the browser, any key events are ignored by the flash movie (because it's not active untill you click it). Does anyone know if there’s a way to tell if a movie is active / inactive?

Please help me out …

Cheers

Rolf Lidén ( http://www.boostmode.com )

Need Some Help With Active Search
Hi, I've come across this most excellent movie here, and I'm basically tinkering with it. I've been learning flash for a little while and I suppose getting reasonably good... find the best way to learn is to do tutorials and mess around with other movies, but this one has me stumped!

http://www.flashkit.com/movies/Scrip...-114/index.php

I hope the author doesn't mind .

The links in this movie are to external html pages using getUrl... I'm wondering if they can be used to link to a movieclip inside the same flash movie, or perhaps link to another frame?

If anyone can offer any pointers, I will quite happily email them a cup of Darjeeling and a choccy biscuit!

Active Emailing
Hi Guys,

I want to set up an active email to send to my clients. It will consist to two images with the top image flashing on and off. I can create this in flash no problem but can I import an 'swf' file into an email so that when someone opens it, it loads?

Does anyone know if this is possible or an alternative method?

Please email me on alex@clientcommunications.co.uk as I won't have access to the internet over the weekend