My Flash menu doesn't work until the area is clicked first, the same with animation.?

Question

My Flash menu doesn't work until the area is clicked first, the same with animation. I have seen answers relating to but don't understand the put before the

Answer 1

You said you saw the answers about "ieupdate".
Ok! I gave it several times.
You need to put the AFTER any call to ANY embedded Flash. If in doubt, put it right at the end of your HTML file, before the tag! (It's a bit late, but it will do).
Then try again.
What ieupdate does is only to read all the "elements" and... rewrite them! This confuses IE6/7 and get rid of the first click.
This problem does not appear with Firefox nor with Opera.
When designing sites, I advice you to load all three browsers:
IE7, Firefox and Opera.
Then, when designing your site, check it with all three.
You may be in for a surprise and some disappointment (and a fair bit of re-write)
Sorry...

Answer 2

This was due to a copyright infringement lawsuit that Microsoft lost a year ago. It forced Microsoft to change the IE browser so that users had to click to activate ActiveX controls such as Flash files and Quicktime players before using them.

There are multiple workaround for this; try this link: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms537508.aspx

If this doesnt work out well, try googling Microsoft ActiveX activation workaround +flash or similar.

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