Internet Explorer ActiveX Activation Patch interferes with DWF Viewer ActiveX

[Anonymous]

Has anyone successfully scripted around the new internet explorer activation
patch? This is the one that requires users to click on a dwf drawing in
order to activate the ActiveX control.
Any help would be great!

[Anonymous]

I'm looking for the same answer. I've tried all of Microsoft's document.write, outerHTML, innerHTML and createElement workarounds and although they work with other ActiveX objects the DWF Viewer still presents the "press SPACEBAR or ENTER to activate and use this control" prompt. Is a DWF Viewer patch required to address this? AUTODESK???

[Anonymous]

I toiled with this all day and in the end put a call into Microsoft.
According to the technical support team there is a bug in the patch that
they released that caused the changed ActiveX objects. The workarounds as
posted (including those listed below) will indeed work once the patch for
the patch is released over the next month or so. I am recommending to my
clients that they uninstall the current patch in anticipation of the next
one.
-Geoff

"Geoff Williams" wrote in message
news:5116625@discussion.autodesk.com...
Has anyone successfully scripted around the new internet explorer activation
patch? This is the one that requires users to click on a dwf drawing in
order to activate the ActiveX control.
Any help would be great!

[Anonymous]

We have noticed the same problem with this patch. Currently the developers
are implementing a workaround in the upcoming products to account for it.

"Geoff Williams" wrote in message
news:5117453@discussion.autodesk.com...
I toiled with this all day and in the end put a call into Microsoft.
According to the technical support team there is a bug in the patch that
they released that caused the changed ActiveX objects. The workarounds as
posted (including those listed below) will indeed work once the patch for
the patch is released over the next month or so. I am recommending to my
clients that they uninstall the current patch in anticipation of the next
one.
-Geoff

"Geoff Williams" wrote in message
news:5116625@discussion.autodesk.com...
Has anyone successfully scripted around the new internet explorer activation
patch? This is the one that requires users to click on a dwf drawing in
order to activate the ActiveX control.
Any help would be great!

[Anonymous]

Hi Geoff,

Do you have a problem ticket number or a specific contact at Microsoft for this issue that we may be able to use to follow up with them in the future? Do you know if there's the risk that one of the next cumulative patches may include this patch without the fix?

Thx,
Sam

[Anonymous]

Hi Sam,
I've left the trouble ticket open with Microsoft and will ask the question
about cumulative patches. I had to pay for the trouble ticket so I'll keep
that to myself for now but promise to keep this group up to date.
Geoff
wrote in message news:5118984@discussion.autodesk.com...
Hi Geoff,

Do you have a problem ticket number or a specific contact at Microsoft for
this issue that we may be able to use to follow up with them in the future?
Do you know if there's the risk that one of the next cumulative patches may
include this patch without the fix?

Thx,
Sam

[Anonymous]

I wrote a script that gets around the activation boxes...it should work with this as well.

You can get it here: http://therippa.blogspot.com/2006/03/activateactivex.html

[Anonymous]

Hi:

We've got an example that uses a similar technique.

It works with the version of the Microsoft Security Patch I downloaded yesterday.

Our experience, however, is that the solution only works if the .htm file is loaded locally. It does _not_ work if the file is loaded from a Web server (or from an application server like Tomcat that's serving as a Web server).

This is a monstrous bummer as we do DWF highlighting dynamically as a result of database queries.

Any ideas?

[Anonymous]

Are there any updates to this issue? My client base is eager to rid themselves of this impediment.

Thanks,
Bert Dreifuss
Director of Customer Support
FM:Systems

[Anonymous]

With the patch, I got an IE script error. The details:

Line: 222
Char: 13
Error: Object doesn't support this property or method
Code: 0
URL: file://C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Autodesk DWF Viewer\EPlot\index.html

Go to the html file, found "NavPane.ViewsCtrl.SetViewer(iAdViewer);" on this line. It seems ViewsCtrl is the object. Believe it has not been activated in this point and causes this error.

The error happens even I use the viewer desktop app to open a dwf file.

Does autodesk aware of this? When do we have a fix?

Thanks.

[Anonymous]

The script error appears with 6.0 and MS hotfix MS06-013 installed. This is a big problem for us too, because we can't recommend our customers to install 6.5 since that version still has the activation problem (so that wouldn't justify the packaging and roll-out costs). It also is not just for the drawing window but there are also many windows in the navigator that don't work properly.

Since this hotfix is ranked Critical by Microsoft, it is likely that our customers will install it soon, so I really hope a fixed version will also be available soon (or even sooner if possible ;).

[Anonymous]

Autodesk is aware of the problem. It is corrected in the beta that is going
on now. You can go to http://myfeedback.com, register, and request
participation in the Amazon beta.

wrote in message news:5152792@discussion.autodesk.com...
With the patch, I got an IE script error. The details:

Line: 222
Char: 13
Error: Object doesn't support this property or method
Code: 0
URL: file://C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Autodesk DWF Viewer\EPlot\index.html

Go to the html file, found "NavPane.ViewsCtrl.SetViewer(iAdViewer);" on this
line. It seems ViewsCtrl is the object. Believe it has not been activated in
this point and causes this error.

The error happens even I use the viewer desktop app to open a dwf file.

Does autodesk aware of this? When do we have a fix?

Thanks.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the information update! The link you mention redirects me to a search site called mystart.com though (after removing the , in the url). Is that what is supposed to happen?

[Anonymous]

I've just recently installed IE 7 beta 2 and its ActiveX control seems to prevent me from using any of the DWF Viewer controls such as zooming. I'm not getting the usual little window at the top of the screen saying "click here to allow popups." Is this the same phenomenon as Geoff Williams was inquiring about:? Any new developments since 3/21/06?
Thanks

[Anonymous]

We have more work to do to support IE 7. This work will not be completed for
Autodesk Design Review 2007 and DWF Viewer 7 (the Amazon project in beta
right now). If you are working with DWF, you really don't want to be using
IE 7 yet. We have some of the work done, as I have explained in:

http://dwf.blogs.com/beyond_the_paper/2006/05/use_onload_func.html

wrote in message news:5166446@discussion.autodesk.com...
I've just recently installed IE 7 beta 2 and its ActiveX control seems to
prevent me from using any of the DWF Viewer controls such as zooming. I'm
not getting the usual little window at the top of the screen saying "click
here to allow popups." Is this the same phenomenon as Geoff Williams was
inquiring about:? Any new developments since 3/21/06?
Thanks

[Anonymous]

The correct URL is http://myfeedback.autodesk.com/

[Anonymous]

Thanks for that info Scott
It is not just in using IE that this problem exists, I wrote an application in VS2005 that (as it must use IE in the background) gives the "Object does not support..." error as an IE Script Error.