# SWFObject-loaded movies not clickable

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/swfobject-loaded-movies-not-clickable/190603
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [June 13, 2006, 1:32pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/swfobject-loaded-movies-not-clickable/190603 "2006-06-13T13:32:14Z")
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### Author: ![injoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f6c823/32.png) [@injoy](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/injoy)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2006, 1:32pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/swfobject-loaded-movies-not-clickable/190603/1 "2006-06-13T13:32:14Z")

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[SIZE=1](I posted this to the SWFObject mailing list first, but have not gotten an answer, so I thought I would try here since there are so many people who use SWFObject. 😟)[/SIZE]

The problem is with sites such as [http://www.goexposed.com](http://www.goexposed.com), which is set up to auto-detect Flash Player 8 (and I’ve changed the settings many times to try to find _something_ that works, e.g. having Express Install turned on, turned off, version requirement set to 8, 8.0.22, 0, etc.). Here’s the problem: in certain Windows (XP and 2000, most/all _not_ patched with the “click here to activate”) computers with IE 6 and Flash Player 7, it skips right over the version detection and tries to play the movie. But since the movie is Flash 8, it loads, does the opening animation, but none of the clickable areas work. It works fine if we switch to Macromedia’s generated detection script, but of course that has the “click here to activate” problem with all the other users for whom it works perfectly fine. At any rate, the problem exists with both the current version of SWFObject and the older FlashObject version.

Further, the problem isn’t limited to [goexposed.com](http://goexposed.com); the problem has also crept up on SimpleViewer galleries ([for instance](http://www.sethandjulie.net/photos/2006/May%2028,%202006%20--%20St%20Louis/), which doesn’t even use SWFObject IIRC), which also silently fail (not clickable) on these same computers. It’s very frustrating because the alternate content does not show up (because the Flash object _is_ rendered) but the Flash doesn’t work properly, either.

Any ideas would be much appreciated; I’m fairly sure that this not just an issue with us, since the same computers seem to fail pretty much across the board on many different Flash websites. It’s just that these computers that fail are few and far between… maybe a handful of users out of hundreds. Anybody else experienced the same thing?

Also, didn’t there used to be a way to do version detection _inside_ the Flash movie? Does that still exist? It seems like that would be an easy/quick fix if so, since at the bare minimum we need a “you must update” message.