applet on the webpage & "Click to activate and use this control" info pop-up

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apa-sf - 17 Aug 2006 11:05 GMT

Hi.

I have a webpage with java applet. When I point cursor on the applet's
window a "click to activate and use this control" pop-up apperas near
the cursor.

In my applet I have my own "cursor pop-ups" which are showing up when
cursor is over certain elements of the applet. Because of that "click
to activate and use this control" pop-up user have to click anywhere on
the applet's window so my applet can start reacting on cursor over
certain elements of the applet.

Is there anyway to get rid of that system popup with "click to
activate" message?

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Martin Honnen - 17 Aug 2006 17:18 GMT

> I have a webpage with java applet. When I point cursor on the applet's
> window a "click to activate and use this control" pop-up apperas near
> the cursor.

> Is there anyway to get rid of that system popup with "click to
> activate" message?

See
<http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/workshop/author/dhtml/overvie
w/activating_activex.asp>
you would need to write out your HTML applet element using JavaScript in
an external script file.

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http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

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Andrew Thompson - 18 Aug 2006 04:35 GMT

> > I have a webpage with java applet. When I point cursor on the applet's
> > window a "click to activate and use this control" pop-up apperas near
[quoted text clipped - 7 lines]
> you would need to write out your HTML applet element using JavaScript in
> an external script file.

Quoting from that page..
"Note While inactive controls do not respond to direct user
interaction;
they do respond to script commands.
To activate an interactive control, either click it or use the TAB key
to
set focus on it and then press the SPACEBAR or the ENTER key.
Interactive controls loaded from external script files immediately
respond to user interaction and do not need to be activated."

Huh?!

..if this 'click to activate' the control is for some security reason
(I must admit that I still neither run IE with the security update,
nor entirely understand its purpose), why does it make any sense
to allow scripted* elements to be immediately active?

* I have gone to considerable lengths to ensure that my
applet/object elements are *not* dependent on JavaScript!
(I have no figures to support that anyone runs Java but
not JS, but I still do not want to make one technology
dependent on a second, or third..)

Andrew T.

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Roland de Ruiter - 18 Aug 2006 11:22 GMT

[...]

>> See
>> <http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/workshop/author/dhtml/overvie
w/activating_activex.asp>
[quoted text clipped - 17 lines]
> nor entirely understand its purpose), why does it make any sense
> to allow scripted* elements to be immediately active?

Microsoft has to change the way in which IE handles ActiveX controls
because it lost the Microsoft/Eolas lawsuite.
See for example:
<http://www.nabble.com/Microsoft-issues-IE-update-to-get-around-the-Eolas-patent-
t1202526.html>
<http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,122786-page,1/article.html?RSS=RSS>

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Regards,

Roland

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Andrew Thompson - 18 Aug 2006 12:34 GMT

> [...]
> >> See
[quoted text clipped - 11 lines]
> > Interactive controls loaded from external script files immediately
> > respond to user interaction and do not need to be activated."

...

> > ..if this 'click to activate' the control is for some security reason
> > (I must admit that I still neither run IE with the security update,
[quoted text clipped - 3 lines]
> Microsoft has to change the way in which IE handles ActiveX controls
> because it lost the Microsoft/Eolas lawsuite.

Oh, a (*&$#%%&!) lawsuit. I should have guessed something
so illogical, had its origins in a court ruling.

> See for example:
> <http://www.nabble.com/Microsoft-issues-IE-update-to-get-around-the-Eolas-patent-
t1202526.html>

....

Thanks ...I would read further, but I'm already feeling nauseous.

Andrew T.

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