How to test flash detection live

[brownrecluse]

Hi, i have a flash detection on a flash project, but since I have the flash 8 player installed, I cannot test it.

Is there a way to see how it will look and work? Can the player be uninstalled from the browser and install an older version?

Much thanks,

Jeff

[Flash Gordon]

var player = System.capabilities.version;
num = player.indexOf(" ", 0)+1;
player = Number(player.substr(num, 1));
trace(player);
if (player<8) {
trace("you need to update");
} else {
trace("you are good");
}

Yes, simply uninstall your flash player and use one of the archived flash players from MM. It wont affect Flash IDE

[eggnogg]

hey dudes

i spent the afternoon reading and testing this freakin - http://download.macromedia.com/pub/flash/detection_kit/detectionkit.zip - kit and it work ok..i wonder if anybody else has got it workin, and if so...is there language options when updating the flash player when using the express instalation? (i'd be so lucky if anybody new!)

brownrecluse, here's a few reference links for you intelectual pleasure =)
http://http://www.kewbee.de/FlashPluginSwitcher/FlashPluginSwitcher2.1.0.zip
(use multiple flash players)

http://http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_14266 (http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_14266)
download Adobe Flash (argh!!! lol) Players

cheers mates
beer for eveybody

[lionseyeball]

I'm on Windows XP sp2.

I have tried to go through that tutorial and get it to work, but I can't. If I require flash player version 8, it always bombs out saying that I don't have the most recent version. I download it (even though I already had it), test it again, it bombs out again. So, luckily I have the luxury of publishing in flash 7 and testing for that, but I still don't know if it's actually going to work. Here's why....

I used the flash player uninstaller from AdobeFormerlyMM.com that was linked to in the previous post, visited my page and got an IE Active X warning. I accepted it and it installed flash player and I saw my flash content. So, I manually uninstalled the ActiveX controls from my system (per AdobeFormerlyMM's tutorial), uninstalled flash player again (this time uninstalling flash player 7 and flash player 8 just in case), and went to my page. This time, I didn't get an ActiveX warning, the page just sat there for a while... and then DISPLAYED MY FLASH CONTENT!!! If this is the way it's supposed to work, then it's fabulous, but then why use flash detection at all? I assume it's because the winNT and win95 and winME and win2k machines don't work the same way, but then how do I test my detection scripts?

love,
mike

[gromit]

I'm having a similar but slightly different problem. I used Flash 8 to publish a HTML page with a detection script in it - but it doesn't work at all. In fact apart from increasing the size of the HTML file its completely useless.

Anybody got any simple script that I can embed in a HTML page? I'd rather go down that route than the suggested getURL/"System.capabilities.version" method.