Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 for Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) and for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 (SP1) Update. This update changes the way Internet Explorer handles some Web pages that use ActiveX controls and Java applets. Microsoft provides more information about this update at http://msdn.microsoft.com/ieupdate/.
With this update, when Internet Explorer encounters a page with an ActiveX control (such XVL Player) the control may require a single click to activate. When your mouse hovers over the control, a tooltip will appear.
In certain cases, the control will prompt a dialog box before the page loads. As soon as you click OK, the page will load normally. The dialog box will look like this:
In both cases, the functionality of the page and the ActiveX controls will be unchanged after activation. This requirement to click to activate will happen each time you refresh or visit the Web page.
How to Automatically Activate XVL Player:If you are a Web site owner, you can rewrite your Web pages so that users are never presented with a tooltip or a dialog box. One method is to remove the control from the HTML file and place it in a JavaScript function:
function insert_object(elmID)
{
var elm = document.getElementById(elmID);
if ( elm ) {
elm.innerHTML =
'<OBJECT ID="xvlplayer" CLASSID="clsid:C0975880-11DF-
11D5-8084-0040B4116A31" WIDTH="100%" HEIGHT="100%">' +
'<PARAM NAME="FileName" VALUE="object.xv3">' +
'<PARAM NAME="Behavior" VALUE="viewer">' +
'<PARAM NAME="DivNum" VALUE="6">' +
'<PARAM NAME="BgColor" VALUE="#666666">' +
'<EMBED TYPE="application/x-xvlplayer"'+
'SRC="object.xv3"' +
'Behavior="viewer"' +
'WIDTH="100%"' +
'HEIGHT="100%"' +
'DivNum="6"' +
'BgColor="#666666"' +
'>' +
'</OBJECT>';
}
}
You can then refer to that function from the HTML page:
<HTML>
<HEAD>
SCRIPT SRC="player_sample.js" LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
</SCRIPT>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<DIV ID="PLAYER_ELM_ID">
</DIV>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
insert_object("PLAYER_ELM_ID");
</SCRIPT>
</BODY>
</HTML>
Other methods to code your webpage to activate controls are described at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms537508.aspx.
These modifications have been included in versions of XVL Studio and XVL Web Master, which have been released since July, 2006.
If you have further questions, please submit your request.