Detecting Flash Player 8 on a cfform
Now that we are using some features of the flash player 8 such as file upload, we need detect whether the user has it installed in his/her computer. Macromedia has recently published an article on DevNet that explains how to implement a detection script and new feature called "Flash Player Express Install", which greatly simplifies the flash install. To be honest, I didn't read the article, but instead, I made a small script that checks for the flash 8 inside the cfform.
Now that we are using some features of the flash player 8 such as file upload, we need detect whether the user has it installed in his/her computer. Macromedia has recently published an article on DevNet that explains how to implement a detection script and new feature called "Flash Player Express Install", which greatly simplifies the flash install. To be honest, I didn't read the article, but instead, I made a small script that checks for the flash 8 inside the cfform.
var version = getVersion();
var versionNumber = Number(version.substr(4,1));
if(versionNumber < 8)
{
//If the player is not version 8 or above, do something, such as showing an alert
var msg = 'This example requires Flash Player 8 You can download it here
'
var alertSettings:Object = {title:'Warning', message: msg, width:200, headerHeight:27 }
//remember that this way of showing an alert may break in future versions of CF, but it is the only way to embed html in it
errorpopup = mx.managers.PopUpManager.createPopUp(this, FormErrorException, true, alertSettings);
errorpopup.centerPopUp(this);
}
You can call this script whenever you want, I updated our previous example so now it checks for the latest player