Best Practices for Flash?

[phillmj]

Hello gang, I've read some older posts about how to handle flash detection/installation issues for distribution, but I'm wondering what the latest consensus is for the newest version of AMS?

If the old posts are still the best way to go, such as Corey's method of including a flash video and checking the _Flashver variable, then does anyone have the exact steps? Sorry if this has been posted; I have spent a bit of time searching and found lots of bits and pieces but nothing all together. I am not really a programmer, and I'm new to this. But I'm willing to roll up my sleeves.

Thank-you very much in advance.

[MicroByte]

AMS comes with Dependencies modules for performing such tasks, to access them check the main menu>>Project>>Dependencies, check the box for "Macromedia Flash ActiveX Control" and set the required version (default is 6)

when your app starts it will check the installed flash version and if the required version is not found it will present a dialog to the user with instructions (which can be edited in the dependencies dialog) on how to download


Hope that helps

[phillmj]

I will experiment with this, and thank-you.

One question I do have concerning this: it seems to allow for a download of the flash player, which is fine. What I would like in addition is to include the installer on the cd just in case there is no internet connection on the user's computer (I have a license from Adobe for this).

I don't quite see how to manage that. Could I use the "help" text and change that to be "Install version 8 from this CD" and instead of the url, put a file location on the disk?

I appreciate the help, thanks.