"Click to activate" with embedded Flash content

richieboy

richieboy

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So, can anyone tell me why when visiting websites with embedded Flash content i have to "Click to activate" and i get a slightly annoying white box around the content which means i have to click it before i can use it?

This gets pretty lame with some sites, for example ones that use many bits of flash for its logo, footer, sidebars, etc - and i was wondering if there was any reason why? It cant be Flash as i have some of these sites on different versions of it (6/7/8) and have the same problem - could it be a Windows Hotfix?

I am in the process of building a site that uses a couple of bits of Flash...so also does anyone know if there is a bit of code i can stick in with the embedded content that disables this "Click to activate" feature?!

Heres a screenshot of what i mean:

flashgripe6yu.jpg


Thanks.
 
I just installed swfobject and am receiving a “Out of memory At line 114″ error in IE every time i refresh the page or go to any page that is using swfobject. This only seems to happen if i have more than one flash objects on the one page, as with one object it is fine. I have ensured the div=id’s and so.write’s are unique but am stuck now…anyone got any ideas? :confused:
 
Heres the code i am trying to use, any idea whats up with it? Can i actually split it into several javascript snippets or do i have to put all the movies i want in one bit of JS?

Code: 
<td rowspan="3">
<script type="text/javascript" src="swfobject.js"></script><div id="321hr"><img src="themes/WD-Core/images/core-head-right.gif" alt="" width="274" height="209"></div>
<script type="text/javascript"> var so = new SWFObject("themes/WD-Core/images/headright.swf", "headnav", "274", "209", "7", "#171717"); so.write("321hr"); </script></td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
		<td>
			<img src="themes/WD-Core/images/core-head-logo.gif" alt="" width="467" height="98"></td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
		<td><script type="text/javascript" src="swfobject.js"></script><div id="123nav"><img src="themes/WD-Core/images/core-head-nav.gif" alt="" width="467" height="57"></div>
<script type="text/javascript"> var so = new SWFObject("themes/WD-Core/images/headnav.swf", "headnav", "467", "57", "7", "#272727"); so.write("123nav"); </script></td>

Thanks for that by the way BaJ, but i also would like to be able to have the ability to display an image if flash is not available, can what you have be modified to allow this?
 
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