Re: "Click to activate this control" problem

I have. It works.

But for the original poster, the real answer is to not use hover buttons (or
anything Java, for that matter).

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Murray
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"Gregg Hill" <bogus@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Apparently, none of you folks have Googled the "Click to activate and use
this control" phrase. There are dozens of responses
http://groups.google.com/groups/search?hl=en&lr=lang_en&safe=off&num=100&q=%22Click+to+activate+and+use+this+control%22&safe=off&qt_s=Search
pointing to claimed fixes that work for Java, SWF, Flash, and ActiveX.
Most of them point to "flash-fix.js" or "ieupdate.js" as their fix. I
tried several, but none of them make the FrontPage-generated Java
hover-buttons work as they did a few months ago. Of course, they work fine
in FireFox.

Have any of you actually tried to fix a web site that has these problems,
rather than fixing just your own IE? I am trying to fix it for all
visitors and make it work as it did a few months ago.

Gregg Hill



"Andrew Murray" <NOadmurraySPAM@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Turn it off in IE (if possible but may not be as it could be a permanent
"feature" of IE).

"Gregg Hill" <bogus@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hello!

I am trying to help someone who has a web site with menu buttons created
by FrontPage and using Java. The buttons used to change color when you
placed the mouse over them, but since the IE update that makes you click
to activate ActiveX controls, etc, the buttons do not work unless
clicked on. The buttons use the fphover.class and fphoverx.class files.

I have Googled and read for hours, trying many different "fixes" that
supposedly work but never do.

Here is the code from a sample test page:

<html>
<head>
<title>test page </title>
<base TARGET="main">
<meta name="robots" content="NOINDEX">
<meta name="rating" content="GENERAL">
<style fprolloverstyle>A:hover {color: #0000FF; text-decoration:
underline; font-weight: bold}
</style>
</head>
<body leftmargin="5" topmargin="10" link="#0000FF">
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"
style="border-collapse: collapse" bordercolor="#111111" width="152"
id="AutoNumber1">
<tr>
<td width="100%">
<applet code="fphover.class" width="150" height="41">
<param name="color" value="#000080">
<param name="hovercolor" value="#0000FF">
<param name="textcolor" value="#FFFF00">
<param name="effect" value="glow">
<param name="fontstyle" value="regular">
<param name="fontsize" value="14">
<param name="target" value="main">
<param name="bgcolor" value="#000080">
<param name="font" value="TimesRoman">
<param name="text" value="Show My IP Address">
<param name="url" valuetype="ref"
value="http://dynamic.thisgoessomewhere.com/checkip.html";>
<a href="http://dynamic.thisgoessomewhere.com/checkip.html";>Show My
IP Address</a>
</applet></td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

How can I stop this wonderful new behavior? All of the fixes I have
tried so far have not made my IE6 browser with the latest Sun Java work
properly. Is still have to click to activate.

Gregg Hill







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