RE: FLASH: flash 5.0 plugin detector

[Paul Willoughby]

I'm starting to feel ignored here ;-) Has anybody yet tried the

possibilty of using the $version variable which was introduced in Flash

4?

Anyway, Bill, for your purposes this is really straightforward (i.e.

Flash 4 only no Flash 5)

Make a new Flash 4 18 x 18 movie with 2 empty keyframes. In frame 1 put

this code:


SetVariable: playerVersion = Eval("$version") //this is an expression

SetVariable: thisPlayer = Substring(playerVersion, 5, 1)


In frame 2:


If(thisPlayer = 4)             //or maybe 'eq "4"'

 GetUrl: "myFlash4Site.htm"

Else if (thisPlayer = 5)       //as above

  GetUrl: "i don'tlikeFlash5Player.htm" 



This should work, if you know the user will have either the 4 or 5

plug-in (maybe not on Mac IE 4.5). Maybe with a META refresh tag it

could also act as a general 'sniffer' movie, but I haven't tested this.


hth


paul


Bill Ristine wrote on 14 November 2000


> 

> I am trying to find away to prevent  Flash4  movies opening 

> in Flash5 until

> Macromedia fixes the bugs...Any suggestions?

> 


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