Activex Control Warning

[jschall]

I am running Version .358 on Windows XP SP3.

Whenever I start Plan-G, an Internet Explorer Information Bar pops up to advise me that:

"...your web browser has restricted this file from showing active content that could access your computer."

1. Does it matter to Plan-G whether I allow the Activex control or not?

2. Is there some way of eliminating this minor annoyance at the startup of Plan-G?

- Jeff Schallenberg
Mont Saint-Hilaire, Québec

[tim arnot]

Yes you should allow the script, or you will not see any of the Plan-G overlay data. To get rid of the alert, you will need to enable local ActiveX scripting in your Internet Explorer security settings - details are in the readme.

[jschall]

To get rid of the alert, you will need to enable local ActiveX scripting in your Internet Explorer security settings - details are in the readme.

I read the readme.txt, and the option is already enabled in the MSIE 7 Intranet security settings. I still get the warning.

- Jeff

[tim arnot]

That's interesting. That's what did it for me, but maybe there are other factors in play. What OS and version of IE are you using?

[jschall]

Windows XP SP3, MSIE 7

Any other MSIE security tweaks to try?

- Jeff Schallenberg
Mont Saint-Hilaire, Québec

[tim arnot]

I have found a different way of fixing it that  will be incorporated into the next build. It's something you can do yourself, if you don't mind editing a file in notepad...

Open up the file google.html (you'll have to right-click it and select edit, otherwise it'll just open in your browser.

Clear a space above the top line, and paste the following line of text into it (including the angle brackets):

<!-- saved from url=(0014)about:internet -->

Save the file and close it. Job done.

[jschall]

That did it! Thank you, Tim!

- Jeff

[Peter Dodds]

Major irritation removed. Cheers, Tim.

Peter

[John Lygo]

Major irritation removed. Cheers, Tim.

Peter

How right you are Peter - and thanks Tim.  :)

[Harley Glossop]

you could always do:

<!-- saved from url=(0027)http://www.tasoftware.co.uk -->

so that people trundling through the code will find the url for your site instead of just a generic thing :D