How to fix the "click to activate and use this control" problem

[Raj]

How can we get rid of this problem in flash object:
click to activate and use this control

Can we get rid of this problem?

[mtran]

Here :
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/ar...swfobject.html

or here - the same thing:

blog.deconcept.com/swfobject/

[Raj]

Thanks,

I have just found the solution:

place the following javascript code below the last OBJECT tag on the page:

=======code=====

objects = document.getElementsByTagName("object");
for (var i = 0; i < objects.length; i++)
{
objects[i].outerHTML = objects[i].outerHTML;
}

=======code ends======

You can also save it as .js file and call the file after the last OBJECT code....

[Jon101]

Hmm, i cant seem to get it to work on my site... I tried putting the above code under the last object tag, but nothing happened.

[Twey]

I don't see why this is a problem.

objects[i].outerHTML = objects[i].outerHTML;

This will cause an error to be displayed in non-IE browsers.

[Jon101]

Oh, so this only works for ie?

[Twey]

Only IE displays the message (natively, there's a Firefox extension called FlashBlock that performs the same function but I don't think it's so easily circumventable).

[Jon101]

Oh, I see..

So i put:

objects[i].outerHTML = objects[i].outerHTML;

right after "</object>" in the html page, right?

[Twey]

Put this at the bottom of your page:

<script type="text/javascript">
  for(var i = 0, es = document.getElementsByTagName("object"), e = es[0]; i < es.length; e = es[++i])
    if(e.outerHTML)
      e.outerHTML = e.outerHTML;
</script>

This is the principle of which Raj spoke, but I don't know how effective it will be (I work with neither Flash nor IE). I still fail to understand why this message is a problem.

[Jon101]

Its a bit of a burden to have to double click on nav's. Clients dont fancy it much. Thanks, ill let you know if it works.