Re: FLASH: Flash 4 silent install for Netscape

[Cheri Harder]

Jan


Check out the HTML folder inside the Flash 4 folder.  There are several

built-in templates for use in the new Publish feature of Flash 4 (instead of

using Aftershock) - at any rate, I'm sure one/some of the templates will

have the URL's you need!


HTH

~~~~Cheri Harder~~~~~

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----- Original Message -----

From: "Jan Oosterhuis" <

J [dot] Oosterhuisedte [dot] utwente [dot] nl

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Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2000 6:53 AM

Subject: FLASH: Flash 4 silent install for Netscape



> (This question has probably been posed before, but I could not find

> the proper solution.)

>

> Aftershock (2.5) creates  an html page with some JavaScript code that

> uses Java to install the Flash Plugin into Netscape.

> A piece of it looks like this:

>

> >if (navigator.platform.indexOf("Win32") >= 0 )

> > jarPath =

> >"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/jars/english/silentflash

> >32.jar"

> >else if (navigator.platform.indexOf("Win16") >= 0 )

> > jarPath =

> >"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/jars/english/silentflash

> >16.jar"

> >else if (navigator.platform.indexOf("MacPPC") >= 0 )

> > jarPath =

> >"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/jars/english/silentflash

> >ppc.jar"

> >if (jarPath.length) {

> > netscape.softupdate.Trigger.StartSoftwareUpdate (jarPath,

> >netscape.softupdate.Trigger.FORCE_MODE);

> >.....}

>

> I rewrote some of the code (to detect the Flash 4 plugin), but it

> appears that the above URL's still point to the Flash v3 installers.

> Are other links available at Macromedia that can be used for

> installation of the Flash v4 plugin?



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