I’m fairly new to web design but spent a long week getting to grips with flash and produced a great looking menu……only to find the links did not work in Internet Explorer when the buttons were pressed. I searched the net for a solution but could not find one simple enough for me to use effectively.

However I have found that if you use dreamweaver you can select the flash button in design view and in behaviours set it as “on focus” adn “go to URL” this works fine apart from allowing you to use the back button but this is easily resolved with a good menu system.

Hope this helps anyone who was pulling there hair out like me!

We had a nightmare with this as every computer in the company stopped playing flash and we are a video streaming company.

While Microsoft sort themselves out download this. It is actually the standalone flash installer from Macromedia. It works perfectly.

Download it from:
<a href=”http://www.macromedia.com/go/full_flashplayer_win_ie”

http://www.macromedia.com/go/full_flashplayer_win_ie

Now will someone please get Microsoft to sort themselves out. No one really cares about the legal battles but we do care about watching flash.

Chris

Do the following:

Create A tag containing the variable to be passed like so – var FlashVarsSet = “rssMediaPath=&media_title=&media_link=&media_description=&media_date=&media_votes=&media_id=&media_channel=”;

Then call the FlashVarsSet value from javascript include like so:

document.write(”);
document.write(”);
document.write(”);
document.write(”);
document.write(”);
document.write(”);

I am sure this will come in very handy for those of you that do a lot of dynamic flash content.

1st, the issue:
On KBteachers, we use a multiple flash movies on each page, as well as a PHP “backbone”…Once in a while we were getting customer complaints about menus not working properly:
Mouse over effects worked fine, but no success when clicking.
A really strange behavior that started happening with both IE and Firefox updates…

And, I must say, a behavior hard to replicate…

2nd, the fix..
At 1st I thaught it might be in our code, in the fact that we were using too many Flash movies (up to 5 at times) etc…
and then “enlightenment”:

When a page was called using:
http://www.kbteachers.com/etc..
Everything was working fine.
HOWEVER….when the page called did not contain the –often omitted– “www” in http://www. etc…
Things were getting messed up….

I had no idea why flash buttons stopped functioning properly because of the “www”….but at least I found the culprit…

The problem then became, how do I fix this without re-building all my link codes etc…

Using a simple Htaccess file, I created a “force” the url to include http://www…so that if a user simply typed: kbteacher.com in the address bar, it would automatically become http://www.kbteachers.com

Here is the code for those of you who might need it:
(place it in a file called “htaccess”)

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^kbteachers.com$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.kbteachers.com/$1 [R=301,L]
ErrorDocument 400 http://www.kbteachers.com
ErrorDocument 401 http://www.kbteachers.com
ErrorDocument 403 http://www.kbteachers.com
ErrorDocument 404 http://www.kbteachers.com
ErrorDocument 500 http://www.kbteachers.com
IndexIgnore *

I forgot where I found the source for this, so if you know who originally wrote this code (which I know was for other purposes) you can add the link

Also, I was just thinking, maybe there is a way to use the same htaccess file to force the activation of embedded objects???
–Any ideas?

I don’t understand why the “www” thing bugged my Flash files, so I would appreciate it if anyone could give me an explanation…

Happy surfing and learning…

HOWEVER! We now have a really weird problem:
On our most popular site (for kids — I must warn you guys who will critisize the “whole in flash thing”– because these swf use pre-loaders the JS method does not work at all…instead, it seems to think (the browser that is–) that the SWF is only the size of the first level (where my pre-loader is) and therefore always resets the swf…not allowing the “gotoandPlay” to work…Makes sense?
Has anyone else experienced this?
If needed, I will provide the FLA and HTML ….but I really am wondering if I am the only one who has not been able to implement the JS solution…and by the way..it works on my other sites, both on IE 7x and FFox…so obviously it seems to be a prob with my swf..?
But i can’t figure it out..and do not want to part with my pre-loaders…unless someone has the kindness of sending me an FLA with a loader that works….my standard one just doesn’t…

THANK YOU FOR ANY HELP!

and if you can help us build http://www.kbteachers.com, or have some ideas how we can improve it —ps email me christophe [@] kbears.com

THANKS AGAIN.

Workaround for ‘Click to activate and use this control’ with javascript

Thanks for the code!

Put these two funtctions, included the call to addEvent at the bottom, in an EXTERNAL file and include the following line in any html-file. NB! Function MUST be in an external file!

<script type=”text/javascript” src=”fix_eolas.js”></script>

// EXTERNAL file start: —————————————————
// fix_eloas.js by Frode Rustoy.
// By Frode Rustoy. http://www.vevemsteren.no/
// Inspired by http://www.sitepoint.com/article/activex-activation-issue-ie

function fix_eolas(){
var objects = document.getElementsByTagName(“object”);
for (var i = 0; i < objects.length; i++) {
var o = objects[i];
var h = o.outerHTML;
var params = “”;
// Need to take care of each node because IE strips out Flashvars
// if you just copy the object
for (var j = 0; j<o.childNodes.length; j++) {
var p = o.childNodes[j];
if (p.tagName == “PARAM”){
params += p.outerHTML;
}
}
var tag = h.split(“>”)[0] + “>”;
var newObject = tag + params + o.innerHTML + ” </object>”;
objects[i].outerHTML = newObject;
}
}

function addEvent(obj, evType, fn){
if (obj.addEventListener){
obj.addEventListener(evType, fn, false);
return true;
}
else if (obj.attachEvent){
var r = obj.attachEvent(“on”+evType, fn);
return r;
}
else {
return false;
}
}

addEvent(window, ‘load’,fix_eolas);

// EXTERNAL file ends: —————————————————-

Thanks for sharing.
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