Flash plugin / activeX control ?!?

[neobadlands]

Hi,
Can anyone tell me, if there is a difference between the "normal" flash plugin, that you can get at macromedia.com, and activeX control???
Or is activeX a part of the plugin?
My experience is, with the flash player that comes with Microsoft I.E. 5.5 I am able to view flash-animation, but interactivity (buttons) does not work.
So I have to install activeX (that comes with flash 5(macromedia/flash 5/players/InstallAXflash.exe))on top of the player.
Or get the plugin from macromedia.com, where activeX probably already is included, right away for my interactivity to work.
Can anyone confirm these thoughts, or is it a bunch of crap??!
I´m asking because I found my animation, but not the included interactivity to work on several machines differently.

Thanx
Neo

 

[oldnewbie]

My understanding of this - but this can also be crap! - is that Explorer uses the ActiveX control whereas Netscape uses a plugin. Now I believe my Win98, on PC of course, came with Flash 4 and ActiveX control included, so when I upgraded to Flash 5 the ActiveX control was allready there.
But when I started using NS on top of IE, I believe I had to download the plugin for it to work with Flash. Both now work fine for me.
Now, my guess is that depending on your configuration (OS, platform & browsers used), and what came with what, you may need to download either the plugin or the ActiveX control.

Best I can come up with!

;-)
"If nothing else, I can always serve as a bad example!”

 

[neobadlands]

Thanx oldnewbie,
I´m using Win98 as well. And on my computer it always worked fine. It is just that I wanted to know what people might have to do, if they can view animation but can´t interact on their PCs.
Because that´s what happened.
I didn´t even know this could happen. I thought either the whole thing runs or it don´t, but not partially.
Well...