Detecting Flash

skuff · #1 Aug 18th, 2003, 16:31

I've used various techniques for detecting flash and showing different content depending upon whether their browser handles flash or not.

I found one which is flash was installed showed the flash movie, if not then show an image - I have been unable to locate the code - can anyone help me out?

I need it to de done on the same page - no redirect - just if flash then show flash movie else show this image.

Muchos Grassiasos for anyone who can help me out

Webforumz Staff · #2 Aug 18th, 2003, 19:21

This very code is available in the Flash application itself!

Open your movie in flash and go to File > Publish Settings.
Click on the HTML tab and under "Template" select, "Detect for Flash X" where X is the version of flash you want to detect for. If you click on "Info" you will read:
"Uses browser scripting to detect the presence of the Macromedia Flash Player.
If Flash player 6 or above does not exist an image alternative will be loaded."

Ensure you also tell flash to publish either a GIF or JPEG image (your preference) so that the code links to the image flash also produces.

The code produced is the following:

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<SCRIPT LANGUAGE=JavaScript1.1>
<!--
var MM_contentVersion = 6;
var plugin = (navigator.mimeTypes && navigator.mimeTypes["application/x-shockwave-flash]) 
? navigator.mimeTypes["application/x-shockwave-flash].enabledPlugin 
: 0;
if ( plugin ) {
var words = navigator.plugins["Shockwave Flash].description.split(" 
");
for (var i = 0; i < words.length; ++i)
{
if (isNaN(parseInt(words[i])))
continue;
var MM_PluginVersion = words[i]; 
}
var MM_FlashCanPlay = MM_PluginVersion >= MM_contentVersion;
}
else if (navigator.userAgent && navigator.userAgent.indexOf("MSIE")>=0 

&& (navigator.appVersion.indexOf("Win") != -1)) {
document.write('<SCR' + 'IPT LANGUAGE=VBScript\> \n'); //FS hide this from 
IE4.5 Mac by splitting the tag
document.write('on error resume next \n');
document.write('MM_FlashCanPlay = ( IsObject(CreateObject("ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash." 
& MM_contentVersion)))\n');
document.write('</SCR' + 'IPT\> \n');
}
if ( MM_FlashCanPlay ) {
document.write('<OBJECT classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"');
document.write(' codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,0,0" 
');
document.write(' ID="test" WIDTH="550" HEIGHT="400" 
ALIGN="">');
document.write(' <PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="test.swf"> <PARAM 
NAME=quality VALUE=high> <PARAM NAME=bgcolor VALUE=#FFFFFF> '); 
document.write(' <EMBED src="test.swf" quality=high bgcolor=#FFFFFF 
');
document.write(' swLiveConnect=FALSE WIDTH="550" HEIGHT="400" 
NAME="test" ALIGN=""');
document.write(' TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer">');
document.write(' </EMBED>');
document.write(' </OBJECT>');
} else{
document.write('[img]test.jpg[/img]');
}
//-->
</SCRIPT><NOSCRIPT>[img]test.jpg[/img]</NOSCRIPT>

skuff · #3 Aug 19th, 2003, 08:38

You da man Sirkent!

Nice one geez

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