Need help using flash buttons

Report · Sep 17, 2007

Can anyone help me with flash buttons? I am trying to build my first website, and my five flash buttons (inside a 5 col. table) for page navigation work fine in testing all 5 web pages with mozilla firefox, and they look the same on the index page when testing with IE-7. However when I begin navigating to other pages in IE-7, the flash buttons disappear, and the 5 cols in the table where each flash button was placed now are not equal sizes anymore like they are on the index page. In my files area on the right, I notice 3 out of the five buttons I created have about 15 to 20 "generations" shown there, with numbers 1 through 15 or even more to qualify them tacked on to the end of the names. Where do these come from, and why are 2 out of the five only have 1 "generation" each? I never expected this, and I think it has something to do with the problem, but maybe not. Please help me if you can!

Report · Sep 18, 2007

hi there,

since i cant see the page i will try to tell you what i thik it mght couse the problem...

for some "unrelaiblae" security resions Microsoft has put some functionality that allows Ie7 to Disable all Buttons on scereen unless the user activate them. to disable this you have to create and include a javascript page with this code in it:

CODE:
=============
objects = document.getElementsByTagName("object");
for (var i = 0; i < objects.length; i++)
{
objects .outerHTML = objects.outerHTML;
}
=============

Remember to include the JS file After the very last flash object in the page...

Finally, if this didnt work please upload the files to your server and send me back a link to see it...

Saleh

Report · Sep 18, 2007

"Saleh A. aziz" <saleh.awal@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> hi there,
>
> for some "unrelaiblae" security resions Microsoft has put some
> functionality
> that allows Ie7 to Disable all Buttons on scereen unless the user activate
> them.

Microsoft didn't do that for security reasons, but because of a patent
lawsuit,
we can thank EOLAS for that http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EOLAS

Report · Sep 18, 2007

If you want to use Flash for navigation, consider this -

1. Some people don't have Flash installed - what do they do?
2. Search engines don't parse Flash links - your site will not be spidered
3. Screen assistive devices don't parse Flash links - what will those users
do?
4. DW cannot maintain links within a Flash movie, so if you move or rename
a linked file, your navigation will break - what will you do?

It's usually a very bad idea for these reasons...

Your problem is caused by navigating away from the previewed page. In
general, this is not a good thing to do, since root relative links will not
work as expected when you do that (locally).

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"dreamnovice" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> Can anyone help me with flash buttons? I am trying to build my first
> website,
> and my five flash buttons (inside a 5 col. table) for page navigation work
> fine
> in testing all 5 web pages with mozilla firefox, and they look the same on
> the
> index page when testing with IE-7. However when I begin navigating to
> other
> pages in IE-7, the flash buttons disappear, and the 5 cols in the table
> where
> each flash button was placed now are not equal sizes anymore like they are
> on
> the index page. In my files area on the right, I notice 3 out of the five
> buttons I created have about 15 to 20 "generations" shown there, with
> numbers 1
> through 15 or even more to qualify them tacked on to the end of the names.
> Where do these come from, and why are 2 out of the five only have 1
> "generation" each? I never expected this, and I think it has something to
> do
> with the problem, but maybe not. Please help me if you can!
>

Report · Sep 18, 2007

> for some "unrelaiblae" security resions Microsoft has put some
> functionality
> that allows Ie7 to Disable all Buttons on scereen unless the user activate
> them.

Not security reasons.

Eolas allegedly invented and patented the ability to embed and display
active objects (Quicktime, Flash etc are modern day examples of active
content) in a browser via HTML.

Microsoft didn't want to pay license fees to Eolas when Eolas offered
licenses in 1994. Microsoft says they invented the same thing at around the
same time.

Eolas sued Microsoft - and Microsoft only, despite other browsers infringing
their so-called copyright - in 1999! (why wait so long?)

Eolas initially won (sort of) in 2003/2004.

In 2006 Microsoft changed IE6 and IE7 so they don't use Eolas' alleged
"technology".

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John Waller