click to activate this control

[lorddog]

microsoft has a suit leveled against them making ie put a div block ontop of flash objects and you are required to click the transparent box to activate the interaction of the flash.
The flash will still run on its own but for the user to click it he has to click to activate it and he has to do it every time the page refreshes.

I have a simple workaround that you can easily modify to suit your need.

put your write in a js file function as so

function activate(sName, sWidth, sHeight){
    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="'+sWidth+'" HEIGHT="'+sHeight+'">');
    document.write('<PARAM NAME="movie" VALUE="'+sName+'">');
    document.write('<PARAM NAME="quality" VALUE="high"> ');
    document.write('<PARAM NAME="menu" VALUE="false"> ');
    document.write('<EMBED SRC="'+sName+'" menu="false" QUALITY="high" PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" WIDTH="'+sWidth+'" HEIGHT="'+sHeight+'"></EMBED>');
    document.write('</OBJECT>');
} 

and then in the page just put a call as so

<script>activate("flash/CharterServices.swf", 630, 305);</script> 

This is currently an optional download in IE windows update but will be embeded in IE7

Lorddog

here is an article on this http://www.internetnews.com/xSP/article.php/3568286

[diades]

microsoft has a suit leveled against them making ie put a div block ontop of flash objects

Huh?? What is that about?

[Roland Alphonso]

Been brewin' a while now..

[MtDewBoy1701]

For dynamic flash creation (mainly for the pursposes of doging the IE changes), I find the UFO object to be a very good choice for flash.

http://www.bobbyvandersluis.com/ufo/

--Wes

[mmi]

Due to circumstances beyond my control, this thread has been closed.