ivanmax Posted April 21, 2006 Share Posted April 21, 2006 Hi everybody, Can anybody tell me why I get a dotted line around the buttons of my web?: www.pedaldoc.com It used to work fine... Please help me!!! Thanks a lot, Iván. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j2k4b Posted April 21, 2006 Share Posted April 21, 2006 I am at work for the moment and using IE. I don't see any dotted lines. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Posted April 21, 2006 Share Posted April 21, 2006 hrm, do you use a .css file? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Posted April 21, 2006 Share Posted April 21, 2006 (edited) N/m, I think thats something the IE patch added, its part of the flash I will make a flash button and upload it to my site in a min and see if I am correct. Then again, I havnt re-installed macromedia flash on this laptop yet, so I will have to wait but I think it does have something to do with the IE patch / or flash player patch - unless you have messed with the buttons of late and changed a setting. Edited April 21, 2006 by Alan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivanmax Posted April 21, 2006 Author Share Posted April 21, 2006 Thank you very much for your answers... Alan, can you see the dotted line? It would be great to know. Maybe something is wrong with my computer. Thanks again! Iván. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Bruce Posted April 21, 2006 Share Posted April 21, 2006 If you have patched your IE you will see a box around the buttons. If you leave the cursor there you should see a balloon tip that says Click to activate and use this control Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivanmax Posted April 21, 2006 Author Share Posted April 21, 2006 Thanks. Is there a way of solving that? Iván. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Bruce Posted April 21, 2006 Share Posted April 21, 2006 This was a security patch that Microsoft released. No you cannot remove it as far as I know. If you don't want to see it, I suggest and recommend that you use Firefox. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivanmax Posted April 21, 2006 Author Share Posted April 21, 2006 Hi Bruce, Thank you very much for your answers. Do you mean using firefox for all the buttons? Redoing them in Firefox? Please let me know, Iván. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Bruce Posted April 21, 2006 Share Posted April 21, 2006 Ivan, there is nothing wrong with how you are creating your buttons. Anything now using Flash in IE will display this box. Nothing you can do. If you don't want to see the box I suggested that you use Firefox since it does not display the box. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivanmax Posted April 21, 2006 Author Share Posted April 21, 2006 Thanks Bruce. You are a guy really. Do you mean I need now to redo all my buttons using firefox? Well, I will do it if I have to as I find that box really horrible. How can the guys of Microsoft do this? I suppose this is costing money to a lot of people... Please let me know if that if what I need to do. Regards, Iván. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevan Posted April 21, 2006 Share Posted April 21, 2006 IE 6 shows the control box over each button area as I hover. Since the areas overlap there are left overs or ghost sections of the previous box as I move my mouse down the list. Try resizing the menu button areas (or button area maps) so they do not overlap the other buttons. That way the boxes will 'go away' as you mouse away from each button in Firefox, an alternate internet browser and a great replacement for IE, the site does not display properly. The images at the bottom of the page overlay on top of the last paragraph making it unreadable. However, the menu buttons work great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Bruce Posted April 21, 2006 Share Posted April 21, 2006 There is nothing to do, that's the way it works in IE now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevan Posted April 21, 2006 Share Posted April 21, 2006 His button map areas overlap each other, can't he change that on his site so they don't overlap? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevan Posted April 21, 2006 Share Posted April 21, 2006 I moved up from the second (mod kits) button and see this: 2 boxes Nothing can be done about that at all? I was thinking that if each button area did not over lap the next one the text would not be blocked by the previous box... (US or MOD) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Tim Posted April 21, 2006 Share Posted April 21, 2006 In my unpatched version of IE it looks fine. Ivan - are you seeing the "Click to activate this control" popup? Whether or not you are is key to this thread. Recently Microsoft lost a lawsuit and it is impacting the way IE will handle some ActiveX controls. From Microsoft's website: After a forthcoming update, Microsoft Internet Explorer users will not be able to directly interact with Microsoft ActiveX controls loaded by the APPLET, EMBED, or OBJECT elements. Users will be able to interact with such controls after activating their user interfaces. There are workarounds for it that you can implement as a developer, and I believe there was a discussion about this in the forums recently. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abinidi Posted April 21, 2006 Share Posted April 21, 2006 Do you mean I need now to redo all my buttons using firefox? Well, I will do it if I have to as I find that box really horrible. How can the guys of Microsoft do this? Iván, From this post, it sounds like you are unaware of what Firefox is. It isn't a graphics program, it is an alternative web browser. While most of the world uses Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser to look at web pages, there are other alternatives out there. Many people in the TCH forums use a program called Firefox from Mozilla (http://www.getfirefox.com) for looking at web pages instead of using Internet Explorer. I'm sorry if this is coming across as too Neophyte-ish, but from your posts, it sounds like you may not be entirely familiar with the Firefox program. So what Bruce is saying is that any website visitor that is using the newest patch of Microsoft Internet Explorer will see the boxes around any Flash object. Since your buttons are individual flash elements, there will be a box around each on separately. This is a security control so that Flash elements won't start without your permission. They are trying to give control of the security of a website to the website visitor. If, however, your website visitors are using a different browser, like Firefox, Netscape, Opera, or Safari (to name a few), they won't see the boxes around the menu items. One way you could deal with this is to make all the menu items part of one Flash animation, so that users only had to click on the area once to activate it. But you would still have to activate the controls on every page. Best case scenario here is probably going to be moving away from using Flash animation for your menu items. I hope this explanation helps. If you already knew all of this, then don't hate me for trying to explain something you already knew! Best wishes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Posted April 21, 2006 Share Posted April 21, 2006 firefox seems complicated to me bruce fly to mississppi and hold my hand while I learn to use it Microsoft is starting to make IE more and more lame each patch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Posted April 21, 2006 Share Posted April 21, 2006 (edited) and btw, sorry I didnt respond earlier, I have been playing Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion alot lately when im not working, and walmart is working me a good bit 5 days a week Edit - > yea I see the box Edited April 21, 2006 by Alan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samrc Posted April 22, 2006 Share Posted April 22, 2006 So what Bruce is saying is that any website visitor that is using the newest patch of Microsoft Internet Explorer will see the boxes around any Flash object. Since your buttons are individual flash elements, there will be a box around each on separately. This is a security control so that Flash elements won't start without your permission. They are trying to give control of the security of a website to the website visitor. When I first viewed the page I could not see the boxes. After patching, I certainly do see them and each button must be activated separately. So now to use the menu, I have to DOUBLE click on an item just to get to the linked material. What a pain in the neck. Just checked some applets, embedded sound and had to click to activate. The page with sound had a POPUP to activate Active X as you enter the page. But strangely, a little video I have embedded as a sample still runs fine with no warning. Using this code: <EMBED SRC="filenamehere.ASF" AUTOSTART="TRUE" LOOP="FALSE"></EMBED> With this bonehead move, MS just royally ticked off a ton of people! I see a new wave of people moving to Firefox to get away from this wacky stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Don Posted April 22, 2006 Share Posted April 22, 2006 If you want to replace the buttons with CSS This site has some nice examples Tab Menu 4 might fit your site. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samrc Posted April 22, 2006 Share Posted April 22, 2006 Why do some of those BLINK? Movement is quite jumpy with many of them in IE, while being very steady in Firefox. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Don Posted April 22, 2006 Share Posted April 22, 2006 Why do some of those BLINK? Which site are you refering to? The css menus look the same in FF and IE for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jayson Posted April 22, 2006 Share Posted April 22, 2006 Ok the three thing I found: 1] the first page the images are covering the bottom text 2] send us your pedal link does not work 3] when clicking on one of the last two links, the links all go white background, the reverts to normal.. I use Firefox Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevevan Posted April 22, 2006 Share Posted April 22, 2006 I see a new wave of people moving to Firefox to get away from this wacky stuff. And that's a BAD thing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samrc Posted April 22, 2006 Share Posted April 22, 2006 Why do some of those BLINK? Movement is quite jumpy with many of them in IE, while being very steady in Firefox.Don, I was referring to the CSS page. My IE (not Firefox) browser renders the menus fine, but when you mouseover the graphic change gets a white flash between colors....causes a blinking or jumpy effect on some of the menus. The ones with light colors have less noticeable flash of white... Wish I could capture what I see but it happens too fast. Using ie6 all patches applied. And that's a BAD thing? Nope don't think I said that, did I? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Don Posted April 22, 2006 Share Posted April 22, 2006 Sami that's strange, I don't see any difference with IE and FF ? In any case Iván, menu #4 might be worth trying Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samrc Posted April 24, 2006 Share Posted April 24, 2006 There are workarounds for it that you can implement as a developer, and I believe there was a discussion about this in the forums recently. Anyone know the link to that post? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Bruce Posted April 24, 2006 Share Posted April 24, 2006 Activex Problems Starting Soon?, Eolas vs Microsoft Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samrc Posted April 24, 2006 Share Posted April 24, 2006 Thanks Bruce. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miriam Posted May 7, 2006 Share Posted May 7, 2006 Reading this thread got me concerned about some flash used in some of my sites, so I checked them out again in my updated IE6. Sure enough, there was the dotted line, and the click popup. So I did some searching, and came up with a little program called Flash Object (name has recently been changed to SWFObject). There is a Dreamweaver extension for this that makes it really easy to replace the original flash <object> and <embed> stuff with very clean code that overcomes the new IE problem. Using the extension, I was able to fix 3 sites in less than 10 minutes, without having to really understand the javascript file. Here are some links: SWFObject Dreamweaver Extension SWFObject - to solve the IE update problem with flash and active x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmgalea Posted May 16, 2006 Share Posted May 16, 2006 hey guys, Don't know if you have solved this problem yet but i have checked out the swfobject and it seems to complicated, I have a much easier solution and it is tested.... Just paste the following code into a file called removeline.js theObjects = document.getElementsByTagName("object"); for (var i = 0; i < theObjects.length; i++) { theObjects.outerHTML = theObjects.outerHTML; } then paste the following script at the end of each page where you have a flash movie, preferebly just before the </body> tag: <script type="text/javascript" src="removeline.js"></script> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samrc Posted May 16, 2006 Share Posted May 16, 2006 Tried your patch and it did resolve the problem with embedded flash on a couple pages. Unfortunately it did not resolve the same problem for applets that are also experiencing the dotted lines around and "activation required" notice. Will try to implement the other to see if it resolves all the problems. Welcome to the Forums! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Bruce Posted May 17, 2006 Share Posted May 17, 2006 Welcome to the forums jmgalea Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chatbug Posted May 17, 2006 Share Posted May 17, 2006 Welcome to the forums, jmgalea! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Don Posted May 17, 2006 Share Posted May 17, 2006 Welcome to the forums jmgalea thanks for the tip. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Thomas Posted May 17, 2006 Share Posted May 17, 2006 Welcome to the forum, jmgalea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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