NEED HELP WITH FLASH VIDEO

[lbwebdevelopment]

Dear Fellow Web Professionals,

I am currently working on a site for a major
exporter of baked goods. I have developed
two flash animations that worked fine until
this morning. One is a video that repeats
over and over, and the other is a three-pronged
message that repeat 1, 2, 3, over and over. For
many MONTHS these flash files worked fine on the
web page.

Today, when testing the pages again I refresh the
page and each flash file suddenly takes on a border
and a pop-up box comes up and says I must press SPACEBAR or ENTER in order to activate those (flash) objects. Alternately, I can click on the flash files and the border will disappear. It is important to note that while the border is on, the mouse is a HAND indicating it is a link, and when border is off a regular mouse arrow-pointer. NEITHER OF THE FLASH OBJECTS ARE LINKS.

Is this some automatic update to the Flash 8 player that is extremely annoying? How can I remove this? This is ruining the effect I was able to create with two flash movies seamlessly connected with no border.

Please help if you can.

Kindest regards,

B. Leon

[rms7design]

which version of flash did you use to do your animation? Can we check a link?

see ya

[advancedmerchant]

That was not a change in Flash, it was an update to IE. Microsoft was forced to alter the way it handles plug-ins, due to the lawsuit with Eolas, who patented the obvious.

We use a Flash menu from Cool Focus (www.coolfocus.com). They developed a JavaScript patch that fixes their Flash application on our site (Great customer service). You might contact them, they seem to have this problem well in hand.

[s360]

Why pay for a solution when its such an easy fix for Free. http://blog.deconcept.com/swfobject/


Cheers,
Dan
www.destination360.com

[DrTandem1]

Interesting. So, if one still uses Flash7, will they see the problem? Is it only apparent upon upgrading your plug-in to Flash8? The reason I ask, is I have not upgraded my Flash plug-in, but I have updated IE with automatic downloads from Microsoft. I have not had any issues viewing any Flash movies that I have accessed.

[lbwebdevelopment]

Thank you for your helpful replies.

Actually, since no one replied for so long I posted
the same question at flashkit.com and got a reply very quickly with link to the Javascript now necessary in order to embed flash files without this new annoying IE update problem.

I see that someone also posted this link in the replies above.

Link to what I was talking about (now fixed obviously - but web site still under construction):

http://www.abadibakery.co.il/NOTCOMPLETE

[sparkos]

Hi all,

yes this problem occurs after the last windows update, not the flash 8 player upgrade and it doesnnt' seem to make any difference which version of Flash is being used.

Microsoft obviously know what a pain this is as they've released a 'Compatibility Patch for Internet Explorer for Windows XP Service Pack 2', repairing the updates which effect flash / active x

Info about it here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/917425

Download the patch from here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

Hope this helps ...
Cheers,
Mark

[DrTandem1]

I'm not sure that having to use JavaScript is a good thing. Since I am able to view Flash with JavaScript disabled, I suppose I already have the Microsoft patch.

This incident does illustrate the problem with relying on plug-ins.

[goodsignals]

The link that Sparkos posted solved my problem.

The .swf came back fine in my PC !

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en