Dotted box, Click to activate this control

Hey all, I am not positive this is a shockwave problem but
thats my guess. Whenever I put my cursor over a Shockwave or
macromedia thing a dotted box will now appear and i will have to
click on the item to activate it. Its not a problem just really,
really annoying. I am sure its an easy fix but I cant figure it
out. Anyone have an idea??

Stubbed Toe wrote:
> when i mouse over my movie in a browser a dashed box
appears around it and a text box comes up saying click to activate
this control. how do i stop this?
Amazing
Check this out:
http://groups.google.com/groups/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&num=10&q=Click+to+Activate+group %3Amacromedia.flash.*&safe=off&qt_s=Search&as_drrb=b&as_mind=1&as_minm=1&as_miny=2006&as_m axd=31&as_maxm=3&as_maxy=2007
It's the most hot topic in past few months.
Please in the future try to search before posting. It' waste
of your time wasting for answer
to a question that has been covered hundreds of times and
info about it is available all over
the place. Not to mention google.
Best Regards
Urami
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> Have a Flash movie placed in a DW doc saved as index.htm
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> Get the tool tip "Click to activate this control" when
mouse is over
> movie.
>
> You have to click on the doc once to be able to access
menu's in the Flash
> movie.
>
> I should know the answer to this by now but.....
>
> Why and can i avoid it?
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> Thanks in advance!!!! Client is wanting an answer.
>
>
>
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just search forum - this has been discussed almost everyday
since the issue surfaced a few
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news sites about this and also on adobe and macromedia that
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>
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Oh god .. here we go again .. Obviously someone has been
living under a rock
or on a deserted island for a few months :)
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