Autochecking Flash

[pgrimpo]

How do I check for Flash installation, and if not installed, install it from an install file ON THE CD, and not through the web? Can Flash be installed "silently"?

-Grimps

[element78]

Theres a thread relating to this somewhere, ill see if i can find it.


as far as installing flash..
It can't be installed silently, but what you can do is use the action File > Execute (the flash installer file)

then check the box "wait for program to finish running"

And your app will not continue until the installer is finished installing or canceled.

[John-oh]

This has been covered before, you may wish to search the forum for more detail, but the gist was :

Use Project / settings / resources, then in the Flash section enter the version you want to check for, and if you don't want the user to go to the web site replace the URL with the path to the install file (which you would include on your CD).

You can get the installers from Macromedia, but you have to register and conform to various rules - this is free.

[Sneeze]

EDITED OUT BY COREY
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[Corey]

If you read the license agreement you agreed to in order to obtain Macromedia's Flash installer you are not permitted to use their installer in any other way than the way you agreed to. Just to be crystal clear for everyone. We do not permit any usage of our forum to discuss or facilitate the contravention of any software usage agreements.

Actually read those things before you agree to them... :)

Corey Milner
Creative Director, Indigo Rose Software (http://www.indigorose.com)

[pgrimpo]

I had done searches in the forum, and know how to check for flash, but it always looked like it needed to be downloaded. Thanks for the answer about putting the path in rather than the URL. I'll make sure to take a good look at the license agreement. Thank you.

-Grimps

[Corey]

Cheers Grimps... Just to be clear I believe if you are serving your flash via a web object there may be instances where the users machine will try to auto-load the flash web browser plug-in version player from the web as oppposed to the standalone version you get from Macromedia.

So the "alternate" tab for the flash object deals with a missing Flash active X control but the web object's "alternate" tab deals with a missing IE active X control. Therefore if you serve flash via a web object on a machine which has no flash active X control it's still going to try and download the flash plug-in unless you have scripted in some sort of flash check prior to serving the web object.

Sorry if I made that seem more confusing. If you're not serving your flash via a web object you can pretty much ignore everything I said here, except for the, "cheers" bit... :)

Corey Milner
Creative Director, Indigo Rose Software (http://www.indigorose.com)

[pgrimpo]

I hate to ask this, but how can I check for Flash, and if it's not there, then redirect to a different page where I can give the user the option to download / install?

-Grimps

[John-oh]

See:

http://www.indigorose.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2354&highlight=flash+checking

and

http://www.indigorose.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2679&highlight=flash+checking

Both mention two ways - %Flashversion% and Coreys famous 1*1 swf movie.

Take your pick

If using %flashVersion%, you would need to do something like :

If %FlashVersion%=0.0.0.0
PageJump FlashInstall

Cheers

[pgrimpo]

Do you know if something like:

IF %FlashVersion% < 5.0.0.0
PageJump FlashInstall
END IF


will work?

[John-oh]

Try it, and see.