Detection For Flash 5

[rafferty]

Does anyone know an effective way of detecting the flash 5 player across macs and pc's. I've tried the deployment kit but find that a lot of intranets won't allow you to use VBScript and its causeing the page to flicker.

Any Hope out there?

[Jarlaxil]

One way of doing it is to put a simple swf onto an html page. The SWF needs to have some code in it the says something similar to:

if (4+4=44) {
getURL (index2.html)
}

what this does is in flash 4, 4 + 4 would equal 8. in flash 5, 4 + 4 equals 44 due to string concatination.
So if the have flash5 player the browser will go to the page you tell it. If they don't have the flash 5 player all you have to do is use a meta tag in the HTML to tell the page to refresh after 10 seconds and go to another page
wich you can put a link to the current flash player at Macromedia's site. the meta tag would look like this:

<meta http-equiv="REFRESH" content="10; url=need_f.html">

if the code doesn't show up sorry i thought HTML was turned of in this forum.

hope this helps,
james

[rafferty]

Brilliant: cheers James.

I used that technique for flash 4 but couldn't figure out a way of distinquishing between 4 and 5.

This will be usefull for other stuff also.

Cheers

Ronan

[samsonart]

you might try this (comprehensive) tute:

http://polar-lights.com/fla/detection.html

For simple 4 or 5 you just as well use macromedia's one, smthg like

with(redirectMC){
gotoAndPlay("redirto5frame");
}

[Jarlaxil]

No problem, Have fun....