Topic: Flash player/plugin detection...

hi guys,

is it possible to have flash detection for CD content files.

means if user doesn't have flash player it should give the path the flashplayer.exe from cd.

we want to distribute the flash demo site to our client.

some user dont have flash so we want to have flash plugin into cd so user can able to

install it from cd itself rather than going online for installation.

can we do this..............?

thanx

sketch

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sketch: I would assume so. I have used this script to suggest people upgrade Flash (if there are things going on that require a more recent version of the plugin) and you should be able to adapt it:

[edit: Screw that I can't seem to be able to get the code to show here so phooey - if you are going to use HTML as an interface then let me know and I'll move this to the JavaScript forum but I suppose if you are using just Flash then that could be problematic]

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Emps

FAQs: Emperor

The plug-in detect is one thing; directing them to find the player installer on the CD instead of the Macromedia site is something different.

FlashMX itself can generate pretty sophisticated JavaScript in the html of the enclosing page.

Maybe the code could be modified to toss up a JavaScript alert telling them to look for the plugin installer on the CD? You'd have to be better at JavaScript than I am to do this, but it seems like it could be done.

Emps:

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if you are going to use HTML as an interface then let me know and I'll move this to the JavaScript forum but I suppose if you are using just Flash then that could be problematic

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I have to assume from the question that HTML is the interface. If you compile a free standing, all-Flash application (which is called a "projector" in Macromedia-talk) you don't have any worries - the player is compiled into it.

[This message has been edited by Steve (edited 01-20-2003).]

(edit- Damn it, Steve beat me to it.)

Again, all Flash demo? Make a projector.

If you have a combination of flash and Html, then my best guess is tht you plan for the user to view the CD's content offline in their browser. In that case the usual detection scripts will work. My usual method is placing a piece of code in my loader that only a certain level of flash player can read. I do this because Javascript sniffers are not always reliable.

Someone else may need to tell you if you can put the macromedia plug-in installer on the CD- I've made projectors. If you can, then its just a simple relative link from a file(say html) to the installer.

--tiki

[This message has been edited by tikigod (edited 01-20-2003).]

start here =(

Jason

That wasn't that bad. Fill out form and download. I thought they were going to make me pay for them. Its just the usual "Made with Macromedia" stuff they've been doing for years.

*would say what steve said about using an projector/exe*


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