Flash Error in IE with HTML

Question

I have created a web design and integrated some simple Flash
elements. I used Dreamweaver.
One of my testers is getting an IE (IE 6) error (like the
flash is not initially loading properly, but then it does).
I have tried saving the Flash as version 6 & 7. The flash
has no actionscript, they are static. Anybody have any suggestions?
I can't reproduce the error.
Here is the link.
http://www.studionorthcreative.com/cthj/index.htm

Answer 1

Hi Matias,
It is possible to get the text that has been selected by the user and check that this is within the textarea. You will need a bit of javascript to handle this, something like:
<script type="text/javascript">
function checkselection()
     var selText;
     if (window.getSelection)
          selText = window.getSelection();
     else if (document.getSelection)
          selText = document.getSelection();
     else if (document.selection)
          selText = document.selection.createRange().text;
     var fieldText = document.getElementById("MyTextAreaField").innerText;
     if (fieldText.indexOf(selText) == -1)
          alert("You have selected outside of the box!");
     else
          alert("Selection ok");
</script>
selText gets set to the text highlighted by the user - you need to get this in different ways depending on the browser being used, hence the first if() statement. Older browsers may not be able to expose the selection text as this is fairly new javascript functionality (version 1.2, I think).
fieldText gets set to the text contents of the textarea (which has an id of "MyTextAreaField" in the above example).
A simple indexOf() check will tell you if the text selected is part of the fieldText string.
Obviously, you can change the alerts at the end to whatever you want to do.
Both the setText and fieldText variables will only contain text - all tags etc are ignored.
There may, of course, be instances where the user has highlighted text outside of the textarea that just happens to be in the textarea as well. Other than continually watching what the user does with the mouse or keyboard (as text can be highlighted using both), you'll have to live with these.
Regards
Andy