I want a very specific answer to this question. Not just a url. And I would like to hear a few opinions. I have created a site in flash 5, that contains actions not available in flash 4. Therefore, I need to make sure that the browser has the flash 5 player installed. Of course internet explorer automatically detects the need for the new player. But not all netscape version do. I need a detection system that will work with all 3.0 and above browsers, and will make sure that the user specifically has the flash 5 player before going to the flash content. Now, I know of the normal sniffer, but this does not really work. It does not really know which version of the flash player is reading it. It just makes sure that there is a flash player and if not, refreshes to a new page. Another way that I thought of is not possible either. There is an action in flash 5 that checks the version of the flash player, but since this is not a flash 4 action, it cannot check to see which version. The third way is javascript, which I am coming to feel is probably the best way. I do not know how to do it though. Obviously, the javascript would need to get the version of the player, and if it was the wrong version, would need to write to the document that the new player is needed. I do not know of any other ways. If someone knows of a better way, please explain in detail how it works, and why it is better. If you think the javascript way is best, please explain the basics of it and then if you want, post a url. Code would also be helpful. By the way, I have dreamweaver if that makes a difference. Please help me out here becasue I don't want anyone falling through the cracks, or viewing messed up animation.
Thanks,
Alan
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I've seen that before, and it looks great, but when I download it, I can't figure out what to do. It doesn't have instructions, and I don't see code anywhere. Should I use the js or the non-js version? I think this is the method that I will use, unless someone comes up with something better, but I need a bit of help in figuring out how to use it.
Alan
www.flashforum.de
There you get a tuturial "flash5 detection".
It really works well, I tried it.
I think that I have fond a solution that will work. Let me know if there is a problem with it. Basically, I created two sites, one wiht flash content, one without. The intro screen has a small animation on the left and next to the animation says if you have a slow internet connection, or slow computer visit "site1". If not, then right clik on the aniimation to the left, if it says "about macromedia flash 5 player" then visit "site2". If you don't see the animation or it states flash version 3 or 4, go to "site1." I know that this is quite a bit for the first page. And a few decisions to make that slow down the surfing, however, I also added some javascript and vbscript flashplayer detection to automatically load the flash 5 player if the person doesn't have it, and then take them to the flash content. It eh browser doesn't support auto-update, it takes the to the non-flash content, and then if their browser doesn't support scripts, they end up at the screen I just explained above, and have to make their own decision. But For the most part no one will ever see this screen for more than a split second, and it covers virtually all possibilities. Anyway, here is the site
http://www.stpetersrotary.
Please let me know if there are any problems or you can forsee any problems. I am still going to give someone the points. I will give them to the person who helped the most.
Alan
here is some javascript
this is for a 4 to 3 aspect ratio movie i.e. 640 by 480
function change()
{
if (document.body.clientWidth
{
myHeight=document.body.cli
aids.width=myHeight*4/3 + "px"
aids.height=document.body.
}
}
window.onresize=change
window.onload=change
no the show all setting will autosize your movie to the size of the object height and width tags.
the 100% setting will keep the movie a standard 640 by 480 (if designed that way) in other words it will be640 pixels by 480 bixels no matter what the height and width parameters are.
I will send you an fla to show you
But I think it is working perfectly . Visit http://www.stpetersrotary.
Instead of center you mean? Because when I designed it. I designed it to be in the upper left due to be not thinking about the scalability. Now, if I centered it, it wouldn't look right because the upper left is cropped. It doesn't look bad to you in the upper left does it? I also figured that most people start looking at things from the upper left.
Alan
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by: shekarkrPosted on 2000-11-05 at 21:06:21ID: 5115242
Hi Alan.
Well, I do know of a site that explains all that you want, and I'd rather not repeat it here :)!
Have you checked out Colin Moock's site(www.moock.org)? He's created a Flash Player Inspector, which kinda implements what you are looking for. I am not saying that this is the perfect solution, but you can check it out if you like.
Lemme know if this helps!
Cheers,
Shekar.