Active Content when RH topic contains Captivate movies

I use Robohelp to display my captivate movies (published as
FLASH).....since the Active Content issue in the latest IE update,
my users now have to click on the movie before it becomes
interactive.....I've managed to fix the topics in RH that don't
have a movie inserted on them....but if there's a movie, my fix
doesn't work unless I modify EACH htm file (each topic's code).
This works great except that EVERY time I re-compile the RH
project, the fix is overwritten.....
My fix involves a javascript include file......
Thanks.
Pam

Hi again Pam
Hmmm, well I'll see if I can help any. I'm not sure what you
mean with "fixing topics in RH that don't have a movie inserted".
What are you fixing? Why is a fix needed if a movie isn't there?
But on to the actual issue at hand. You are saying that
something is being overwritten? Perhaps it will help to outline the
process as I envision it.
1. You have a topic containing a Captivate movie that is
interactive, meaning the user must click or type somewhere to
interact with it.
2. Before the fix is applied, the user must click or press
the spacebar in order to "activate" the control. This is equivalent
to patting Internet Explorer on the head and saying "It's okay.
Really. The world will, in fact, NOT end if you just show me the
content and allow me to click it."
3. You apply the fix, which means to use an external
JavaScript file (.JS file) to perform a "write in" of the code
needed to present the movie.
4. You generate WebHelp (assuming WebHelp here, as I do not
believe this issue manifests from inside a compiled .CHM file) and
something gets overwritten?
And here is the quandry. I'm assuming you are intent on
asking either how to prevent the overwriting from occurring, or
possibly WHY it's being overwritten. Perhaps both?
I think the first step is to determine if the WebHelp
generation process is actually overwriting files. I'd compare the
HTML code of a topic that works fine prior to genning WebHelp, with
the same topic code after the generation process has occurred. What
has changed with respect to the code you inserted? Is the code just
gone? Or is it possibly an issue whereby the .JS file simply hasn't
survived the WebHelp generation process? I'm guessing the latter.
You may simply need to add the .JS file to baggage.
Cheers... Rick

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