does this little detection work?

[timXtreme]

i've created a homepage using flash mx. there are some actions in the swf that can only be read by version 5 or 6 of the flashplayer. so i've made a little flash detection within the swf. there is a warning ("you have an earlier version than flashplayer 5...") and this warning is made invisible by the following script:

_root.warning.alpha = 0

now version 4 can't read this so the warning will be seen.
when i exported the movie as flashplayer 4, the warning appeared. when i did it with version 5, it disappeared.

but i actually must export it for flashplayer 5. if someone is using flashplayer 4 will he be able to see the warning? or doesn't even try the flasplayer 4 to play the movie?

i can't test it myself cuz i havent any earlier versions on my computer and i didnt find any on the web...

thanks
tim


ps: im sorry its hard for my to describe my problem because of my pathetic english knowledge... i hope you nevertheless understand it

[SpockBert]

I think that will be fine.

Flash4 will attempt to play the movie, it will just ignore any actions it doesn't understand.

ps. I think your english is very good

[Gary022576]

Originally posted by SpockBert
I think that will be fine.

Flash4 will attempt to play the movie, it will just ignore any actions it doesn't understand.

ps. I think your english is very good

that is correct. It will ignore instructions that is does not understand. The only other choice it would have when it came to something it didn't understand would be to barf and die, and that is bad software design

[Dar]

I seen a tutorial for this

http://www.actionscript.org/tutorial...on/index.shtml

it will tell you if the plug-in is at least ver.5

[hanratty21]

For your testing purposes:

http://www.macromedia.com/support/fl...oldplayers.htm

RH

[timXtreme]

thanks to y'all!!