Why do I have to click on all of my flash components before I can navigate?

Question

Without modification to the code...the component is there but
it needs to be clicked on before I can navigate the site. Should
Dreaweaver not know how to properly insert the code necessary allow
the flash component to view properly? What am I missing? I know
this is a Deramweaver forum....but the problem does not not seem to
be with Flash, it seems to be in the code that Dreamweaver creates
when the Flash component is inserted.
I have been able to find a work around to my problem but
surely it is not what everyone out there is doing. If
so...Dreamweaver or Flash has a serious bug!
I created a site a while back and everthing worked fine. So I
copied some code from that site to fix the new one. However even
after copying the code I still have to modify it to make it
work..(the modifcations are obvious.) This is suely not the way it
is done all the time.
I have three questions:
1. Why did everything work fine with the first site with no
modifications?
2. Why do I have to copy the code to the other site after
inserting the Flash component?
3. Why does dreamweaver not do it for me? (it did everything
right the other time, but now it doen't even work in the previous
site)
I feel like I must have changed a setting somewwhere that I
did not realize would effect this...Perhaps it is a Dreamwweaver
thing.
PLEASE HELP!

Answer 1

It's IE-only behaviour as a result of changes Microsoft made
several
years ago 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/CS3, the fix is already
built into DW's
interface.
If not, try
http://blog.deconcept.com/swfobject/
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...
Murray --- ICQ 71997575
Adobe Community Expert
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"South Beach" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:[email protected]...
> Without modification to the code...the component is
there but it needs to
> be
> clicked on before I can navigate the site. Should
Dreaweaver not know how
> to
> properly insert the code necessary allow the flash
component to view
> properly?
> What am I missing?
>
> I have been able to find a work around to my problem but
surely it is not
> what
> everyone out there is doing. If so...Dreamweaver or
Flash has a serious
> bug!
>
> I created a site a while back and everthing worked fine.
So I copied some
> code from that site to fix the new one. However even
after copying the
> code I
> still have to modify it to make it work..(the
modifcations are obvious.)
> This
> is suely not the way it is done all the time.
>
> I have three questions:
> 1. Why did everything work fine with the first site with
no
> modifications?
> 2. Why do I have to copy the code to the other site
after inserting the
> Flash
> component?
> 3. Why does dreamweaver not do it for me? (it did
everything right the
> other
> time, but now it doen't even work in the previous site)
>
> I feel like I must have changed a setting somewwhere
that I did not
> realize
> would effect this...Perhaps it is a Dreamwweaver thing.
>
> PLEASE HELP!
>