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Users can't see your Flash file? Detecting Flash 5 or 6: Instructions
Subject:Users can't see your Flash file? Detecting Flash 5 or 6: Instructions From:Tara Charter <chartertmc -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 25 Mar 2003 19:56:26 -0800 (PST)
Users can't see your Flash file? Don't know for sure?
Macromedia's instructions are dated "October 2000" - !
- here are the correct instructions (after much trial
and error - thought I'd save somebody a few gray
hairs):
1. Get the Flash Deployment kit free from
Macromedia.com.
2. Keep all the files, but ignore their cryptic
instructions.
3. Open Notepad and copy the following:
//Save this file as index.html to be the first page
users encounter
//It is an invisible file
//This file starts all Flash Detection
//You must first have the Flash Detection kit from
Macromedia
//to use this file
//including Dispatcher.js and Dispatcher.vbs
//You also need two folders
//alt_content
//and flash_content
//Change the parameters in this function to direct
users
//to the appropriate content
//False settings are equal to No while True settings
are equal to Yes
// contentURL Specifies URL of your Flash
file
// contentVersion Identifies Flash version of
your Flash file
// requireLatestRevision Yes or No indicator whether
to require the latest version of Flash Player
// install Yes or No whether to install the
Flash Player if it is not already installed
// installURL This doc will load if
install above is Yes and automated installation is not
supported by browser and platform
// altURL This doc will load if install
above is No
// upgradeURL This doc will load if Flash
Player must be upgraded in order to view your Flash
file and the users browser does not support automated
updating
// overridePluginsPage Yes or No whether to set
Pluginspage attribute for embedded Flash Player
sniffer to install URL
// disableAutoInstall Yes or No to allow ActiveX
control auto install of Flash Player
//writertekky -at- aol -dot- com for more assistance with this
Macromedia file
MM_FlashDispatch(
"flash_content/myflashmovie.swf",
"6.0",
false, // don't require latest rev. of plug-in
"upgrade_flash/upgradeFlash.html",
!MM_FlashUserDemurred(), // don't install if user
said no once
"install_flash/installFlash.html",
"alt_content/noflashmovie.html",
false,
true // disable auto-install
);
</SCRIPT>
</BODY>
</HTML>
4. Save this notepad file as "INDEX.HTML"
5. Create a folder "flash_content" for your flash 5 or
6 files.
6. Create a folder "alt_content" for unfortunate
souls.
Tara M Charter
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