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Issue

when viewing a flash movie, a “click to activate” prompt appears on your Flash movie

Details

This happens on Internet explorer 6 and 7.
This is happening because of a change in how internet explorer treats active x content. The Flash file will not start unless you click on it.

Will Show a Gray Box around the swf file when you hover your mouse iver

Solution

This is the official Adobe page that tackles the issue:

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/activecontent/

Using Dreamweaver CS3

Dreamweaver CS3 will use a javascript fix for this automatically. The file AC_RunActiveContent.js in the scripts folder will apply the fix and the Flash movie will run without the click to activate issue.

Using Dreamweaver 8

update to Dreamweaver 8.0.2. The updated Dreamweaver, version 8.0.2 will also use a javascript fix for this automatically. Once you update DW8, when you open a page with Flash content, DW will ask you if you want to apply the fix. Click on yes and the pages will be updated to have the javascript fix.

Using other html editors

if you are not using DW cs3 or 8 then you can apply a 3rd party fix.
Here’s an example of a javascript fix from a third party web site. This workaround has been reported by a lot of users as a quick solution for their websites and Flash.

http://www.telamedia.com/files/embedflash/documentation.htm

hth

and the hunt goes on…

sid
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