Activate Flash Buttons

I have Flash buttons on my site but I have to double-click
them to do the action. Once to activate the button and once to use
it. Is there a setting I can use to only have to click them once to
use them? Thanks. I am using IE 6 and 7.

Please see these links for more details on what you're
seeing. If you
have DW 8, there's an 8.0.2 Updater that will make the code
changes
for you.
Active Content Developer Center
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/activecontent/
Converting Active Content with the Dreamweaver 8.0.2 Updater
http://www.adobe.com/go/2f98fbe7
David Alcala
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Help with flash buttons please

hi i wondered if anyone could take a look at this for me
please?
http://beechhouse.yorkwebsites.co.uk
why is it in explorer you have to click the button to
activate it and then click it again to go to the page? and how can
i fix this please?

It's IE-only behaviour as a result of changes Microsoft made
earlier this
year to their browser, regarding how Active Content (Flash,
Quicktime etc)
is handled, after losing a high profile court case.
http://blog.deconcept.com/2005/12/15/internet-explorer-eolas-changes-and-the-flash-plugin/
Background:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eolas
See also
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/activecontent/
If you're running Dreamweaver 8.0.2, the fix is already built
into DW's
interface.
If not, try
http://blog.deconcept.com/swfobject/
Using Flash buttons for navigation can negatively affect your
site's
usability - you know that, right?
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"BumStuckOut" <[email protected]> wrote in
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> hi i wondered if anyone could take a look at this for me
please?
>
>
http://beechhouse.yorkwebsites.co.uk
>
> why is it in explorer you have to click the button to
activate it and then
> click it again to go to the page? and how can i fix this
please?
>

Flash buttons work in FireFox but not IE

Please can someone please take a look and see if they can
figure it out cos i can't!
roundshaw (dot) co (dot) uk
The increase and decrease flash buttons at the top of the
page works ok in FireFox but not in Internet Explorer.
Can anyone see what i have missed that stops it working in
IE?
thanks in advance for your help.
Jason

Hello again,
Yep, sounds like you've got the general idea.
hries22 wrote:
I'm going to start from scratch and give it another go...would you reccomend converting every button to a symbol? Then give the symbols a mouseover, click, and mouseout?
I'd take all the elements that make up the button, and convert that into a symbol. Then you can go to labels with your code without worrying about the main timeline. Put all your code on the elements themselves, and not on the symbol instance.
hries22 wrote:
Also - and this minor - but is there a way to get a button's mouseover area to recognize transparency? For instance - I'll use a .png with transparency for a button...let's say the T-shirt. I want the mouseover to activate only when the mouse is over the t-shirt, and not over the transparent area around the t-shirt...any thoughts?
By default, the hit area of a div in HTML is its bounding box. Right off the top of my head, I'm not sure there's a way to change it...maybe someone else can chip in?
EDIT: here's an old-school way...could be a lot of work: http://www.svennerberg.com/2008/09/imagemap-rollover/
hth,
Joe

Flash button

Hi all
ok my flash buttons don't work on a PC they need a double
click, have downloaded a ieupdate.js & swfobject.js but am
unsure where in the coding to activate it, please help, the website
is www.designeddevelopments.co.uk. Please treat me as an idoit
lol.

Before getting into the 'treat you like' part, 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...
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"graphicmoore" <[email protected]> wrote in
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> Hi all
>
> ok my flash buttons don't work on a PC they need a
double click, have
> downloaded a ieupdate.js & swfobject.js but am
unsure where in the coding
> to
> activate it, please help, the website is
www.designeddevelopments.co.uk.
> Please
> treat me as an idoit lol.
>

Gray frame around flash buttons and more...

Hi,
1.I've used flash buttons in my home page,the problem is
that when u view the page with explorer u see a gray frame around
the buttons...
It is so ugly...some one knows how to fix it without using
the code?
2. Another problem, the behevior "show pop up menu" is not
valid,
i've used it before on that page....
i tried everything... i saved it ,linked it...
i dont know what is the problem...
thank you....if you can help
Racheli

I'm experiencing the same problems with my flash buttons. As
you hover over them initially, a gray border surrounds them and an
alt tag pops up that says "click here to activate this control."
This confuses some of the visitors, becuase they perceive this as
if the buttons do not work. I suspect it may be a browser specific
problem...are there any quick fixes for this? Thanks for the help.
--Daniel Serna
Knight Aerospace Products, Inc.

Flash button shows through Flash Menu

I am using a third party product that has a Flash drop down menu. In DreamWeaver, I added a Flash button on the page. When I activate the drop-down menu, the Flash button shows through the Flash drop down menu. How can I fix this so that the menu covers up the button? I've tried z-index property but that did not work.

Flash rises to the top. See this article on wmode parameter
http://www.communitymx.com/content/article.cfm?cid=e5141
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Flash Button not showing

I have inserted a flash button into a side_navigation which
when clicked on is supposed to launch the end users e-mail program
with the address and subject lines pre-populated. This works fine
when tested from another internal server, however, from a remote
machine only a box with the "click here to activate this control"
pop up appears. The original site was created outside of
Dreamweaver using raw html code and Cascading style sheets. Any
help is greatly appreciated!

Are you using DW 8.0.2? Have you uploaded the Scripts folder?
Active content not displayed in browser after converting page
in
Dreamweaver 8.0.2
http://www.adobe.com/go/9c3f9367
David Alcala
Adobe Product Support

Flash buttons gone after active-update

Hi,
Just performed the active-contect update for flash and
dreamweaver.
After the flash update, nothing had changed. Still needed to
click to activate a button, made in flash (8).
Then I installed the dreamweaver update 8.0.2., also with
updates for active content.
After opening the pages in Dreamweaver 8 I got the promised
question what I wanted to do with the <object> items.
I choose to update them.
Now everything worked fine when I testet the page on my own
server (PC) but the oploaded files where NOT.
All flashbuttons where gone, they just didn't appear!
It took a while untill I found out what the problem was.
Since everything worked fine on my own server, It had to be
something with the uploaded files.
All pages where changed, uploading the swf files didn't bring
the solution, so it had to be something else.
My site has many folders, it's a big site.
When I checked the folders on my own servers I found a new
folder called: Scripts
Uploading this folder solved the problem.
Nowhere in the manual, help files or explanations is
mentioned there will be a new folder called Scripts.
When you have a small site with a few folders, you will
easily spot it, but when you have more then 50 folders.....
Regards,
Eric

"Eric72" <[email protected]> wrote in
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> Hi,
> Just performed the active-contect update for flash and
dreamweaver.
> After the flash update, nothing had changed. Still
needed to click to
> activate
> a button, made in flash (8).
> Then I installed the dreamweaver update 8.0.2., also
with updates for
> active
> content.
> After opening the pages in Dreamweaver 8 I got the
promised question what
> I
> wanted to do with the <object> items.
> I choose to update them.
> Now everything worked fine when I testet the page on my
own server (PC)
> but
> the oploaded files where NOT.
> All flashbuttons where gone, they just didn't appear!
>
> It took a while untill I found out what the problem was.
> Since everything worked fine on my own server, It had to
be something with
> the
> uploaded files.
> All pages where changed, uploading the swf files didn't
bring the
> solution, so
> it had to be something else.
>
> My site has many folders, it's a big site.
> When I checked the folders on my own servers I found a
new folder called:
> Scripts
> Uploading this folder solved the problem.
>
> Nowhere in the manual, help files or explanations is
mentioned there will
> be a
> new folder called Scripts.
> When you have a small site with a few folders, you will
easily spot it,
> but
> when you have more then 50 folders.....
Good point, it should say so in the Help files - you might
want to let Adobe
know of that oversight.
Personally, I was pretty happy to have that problem solved so
quickly and
automatically by Dreamweaver - seemed like a big convenience
to me..
Patty Ayers | www.WebDevBiz.com
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Help! Flash Button Troubles

O.K., Hello again everyone got yet another rookie question so
hopefuly y'all have the answer... I am using Dreamweaver MX and
using the preset Flash Buttons that come with it the "slider"
button in particular now I have edited this button and specified a
link (photoshop.htm) coming from (index.htm) but when I upload the
files to the server and try to test it, my index.htm comes up and
is perefect but the button will not link when clicked, it does
everything it is supposed to except take me to another page. I
inspected the code and saw no reference to the page it is to link
to, so attched is the code for y'all to see. Pleez HELP!
-P.S.- also with these buttons I must click to activate them
is there a way around having to click on them before they will
animate?
.

Don't use Flash buttons. That answer is simple! 8)
There are several really good reasons not to use them -
1. They are inaccessible
2. They can't be spidered
3. They aren't usable by those who don't have Flash
installed.
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"Quesstt" <[email protected]> wrote in
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> O.K., Hello again everyone got yet another rookie
question so hopefuly
> y'all
> have the answer... I am using Dreamweaver MX and using
the preset Flash
> Buttons
> that come with it the "slider" button in particular now
I have edited this
> button and specified a link (photoshop.htm) coming from
(index.htm) but
> when I
> upload the files to the server and try to test it, my
index.htm comes up
> and is
> perefect but the button will not link when clicked, it
does everything it
> is
> supposed to except take me to another page. I inspected
the code and saw
> no
> reference to the page it is to link to, so attched is
the code for y'all
> to
> see. Pleez HELP!
>
> -P.S.- also with these buttons I must click to activate
them is there a
> way
> around having to click on them before they will animate?
> .
>
> <object
classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
> codebase="
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#ve
> rsion=5,0,0,0" width="205" height="72">
> <param name="BASE" value=".">
> <param name="movie" value="photosh.swf">
> <param name="quality" value="high">
> <param name="bgcolor" value="#000000">
> <embed src="photosh.swf" width="205" height="72"
quality="high"
> pluginspage="
http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Vers
> ion=ShockwaveFlash" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
bgcolor="#000000"
> base="."></embed>
> </object>
>

Flash buttons & rollover text

All of a sudden, when I move my cursor over a flash button or
flash text a grey border appears around the object and a message
"click to activate this control" appears and you have to double
click the object to action it.
Has anyone else had this problem???

Read here about recent changes to Internet Explorer:
http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/activecontent/articles/devletter.html
http://msdn.microsoft.com/ieupdate/
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"iishka22" <[email protected]> wrote in
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> All of a sudden, when I move my cursor over a flash
button or flash text a
grey
> border appears around the object and a message "click to
activate this
control"
> appears and you have to double click the object to
action it.
>
> Has anyone else had this problem???
>

Flash buttons in dreamweaver 8

Hi,
i am having a problem with inserting flash button in
dreamweaver 8, when i insert the buttons it appears on the page as
a grey box with "F"(flash) and not displaying the proper text. The
user is a standard windows users and has not administrator
privilidges. but if an administrator loggs into the pc and does the
exact same process then the flash button work.
has anyone come across this problem ? does anyone know how to
resolve
cheers
david

You'll need to go back into Flash and build the links into the buttons before you create the swf's. Look in the Flash help docs regarding the getURL function as far as the code you'll need for linking. If you have problems, post in the Flash AS1 and AS2 forum.
Beyond that, don't be surprised if some feedback arises here regarding using Flash buttons.

Flash Buttons in Dreamweaver

Hey Everyone
So i have these Flash buttons on my website(which is done in
Dreamweaver), and when i go to 'test' the site... the buttons will
work when the page first loads(Home)... but if i go to click on a
link, lets say "Contact", the buttons aren't there anymore! And if
i go back to "Home" they arent there either!!
Does anyone have any suggestions or solutions to this
problem?!
Thanxs much in advance!!
-Liz

>>actually, i do have the OBJECT tags...
>> but if i go to click on a link, lets say "Contact",
the buttons aren't
>> there anymore!
Do you have the Flash buttons on all web pages was my point.
In other words,
did you have the same Flash buttons on the Contact page?
>>Can someone take a look at my code and see whats
wrong with it?
/intro_buttons.swf
Is the intro_buttons.swf in the web site root folder -- what
/ means? On the
local drive the / could mean the root folder of the computer
if you are not
testing under
http://.
Lon Hosford
www.lonhosford.com
May many happy bits flow your way!
"EBTurner" <[email protected]> wrote in
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actually, i do have the OBJECT tags...
Can someone take a look at my code and see whats wrong with
it?
Thanxs!
<tr>
<td colspan="14">
<object classid="clsid
27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
codebase="
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#ve
rsion=6,0,29,0" width="422" height="25">
<param name="movie" value="/intro_buttons.swf" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<embed src="/intro_buttons.swf" quality="high"
pluginspage="
http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="422"
height="25"></embed></object>
</td>
</tr>

Flash buttons won't work in Dreamweaver

Hello,
I recently watched/read tutorials about how to add Flash buttons into Dreamweaver. I followed the instructions perfectly: insert>media>flash button, and played around with that options. After I clicked ok/apply, though, the only thing that popped uo was a little grey box with the "f" Flash logo inside. It could be resized, but thats it. When I tried previewing it in a browser, all I saw was a little box in the color i had set as the BG color. In the properties window, it says "undefined" next to file. I am using CS3on a macbook, and am a beginner with Dreamweaver. Anybody know why this is happening and how i can fix it?
-New user

That's correct. There's no difference. But Flash buttons should be avoided however you make them.
Use text-based CSS formatted buttons instead.
Easier to maintain and update and search engines love them.
Google CSS Buttons and you'll find plenty of tutorials.

Dreamweaver Flash Buttons Paths

Hello all,
I am a novice site designer. My first challenge is to design a navigation bar once and used by all web pages. I built it using Flash buttons. The concept works fine in a flat file, but when I'm viewing a web page that sits in a different directory than the flash navigation buttons, the buttons point to a file in the current directory which doesn't exist. I want the buttons to still point to the flash files in the parent directory.
I'm using Dreamweaver CS2 to create my flash buttons. I'm using PHP include statements to include my flash navigation bar. When I create the php file in another directory, click on flash button, all heck breaks loose. I look at the URL and the link appends the PHP file that the flash button should be pointing to whatever directory my current web page is in.
It seems like, I should just create each button as a absolute path, http://rootdirectory.com/filename.php, but it still uses relative path when I'm looking at web page that sits in another directory and appends the navigation link to the current directory http://rootdirectory.com/currentdirectory/filename.php although it points to a link in the root or parent directory.
Do I not know how to create flash buttons using the absolute paths?

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...
Adding in frames makes it even worse - you are in the deep
stuff here. Why
are you using frames?
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"LeichterLernen" <[email protected]> wrote
in message
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> Hey, I use some standard flash buttons from Dreamweaver
to navigate. I
> have two
> frames in this web. The buttons are in frame "A" and
refer to a target in
> frame
> "B". This worked perfectly fine, even with IE 7 in
Windows XP it still
> works.
> But in Windows VISTA every button opens a new browser
windows.
>
> Windows VISTA, IE 7, Dreamweaver 8, running the web on
my HD
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Sky
>

Adobe Captivate Flash Buttons in Moodle

I am using flash SWF files to control Captivate Course in Moodle and I have trouble with CLOSE pop up window flash button. It works in IE and FIrefox but not in Chrome and OPERA when course is opened via Moodle. I have created simple html page with link that opens pop up window containing the same course and this way the button works in all browsers. ????? Again, in MOOdle it doesn't.
In Chrome Developer Tools I have tracked this error when clicking on close pop up window flash buttom: Ignoring cross-frame javascript URL load requested by plugin.
The button itself is using this AS3:
pbcExit_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, myBtnClicked);
function myBtnClicked(e:MouseEvent):void {
navigateToURL(new URLRequest("javascript:window.opener=self; window.close()"), "_parent");
Does anyone have a clue what is the problem?
Thank you,
Vito

I am using flash SWF files to control Captivate Course in Moodle and I have trouble with CLOSE pop up window flash button. It works in IE and FIrefox but not in Chrome and OPERA when course is opened via Moodle. I have created simple html page with link that opens pop up window containing the same course and this way the button works in all browsers. ????? Again, in MOOdle it doesn't.
In Chrome Developer Tools I have tracked this error when clicking on close pop up window flash buttom: Ignoring cross-frame javascript URL load requested by plugin.
The button itself is using this AS3:
pbcExit_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, myBtnClicked);
function myBtnClicked(e:MouseEvent):void {
navigateToURL(new URLRequest("javascript:window.opener=self; window.close()"), "_parent");
Does anyone have a clue what is the problem?
Thank you,
Vito

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