Flash 5 Detection Scripts

[Yve]

Does anyone have any good Flash 5 Detection scripts? I am currently using a general detection script produced in Dreamweaver, but this is only set to test for Flash plug in in general, not the Flash 5 plugin specifically. I have found that when a user has the Flash plugin but not the Flash 5 plugin, the movie just seems to hang and not play. Any ideas?

Yvonne

 

[BigBadDave]

This is a good plugin detection script which you could modify to include versions :


<script language=&quot;JavaScript&quot;>

<!--

/*
Plugin Detector()

Source: Webmonkey Code Library
(

http://www.hotwired.com/webmonkey/javascript/code_library/)

Author: Nadav Savio
Author Email: webmonkey@giantant.com

*/

// this is where we write out the VBScript for MSIE Windows
var WM_startTagFix = '</';
var msie_windows = 0;
if ((navigator.userAgent.indexOf('MSIE') != -1) && (navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Win') != -1)){
msie_windows = 1;
document.writeln('<script language=&quot;VBscript&quot;>');
document.writeln('\'This will scan for plugins for all versions of Internet Explorer that have a VBscript engine version 2 or greater.');
document.writeln('\'This includes all versions of IE4 and beyond and some versions of IE 3.');
document.writeln('Dim WM_detect_through_vb');
document.writeln('WM_detect_through_vb = 0');
document.writeln('If ScriptEngineMajorVersion >= 2 then');
document.writeln(' WM_detect_through_vb = 1');
document.writeln('End If');
document.writeln('Function WM_activeXDetect(activeXname)');
document.writeln(' on error resume next');
document.writeln(' If ScriptEngineMajorVersion >= 2 then');
document.writeln(' WM_activeXDetect = False');
document.writeln(' WM_activeXDetect = IsObject(CreateObject(activeXname))');
document.writeln(' If (err) then');
document.writeln(' WM_activeXDetect = False');
document.writeln(' End If');
document.writeln(' Else');
document.writeln(' WM_activeXDetect = False');
document.writeln(' End If');
document.writeln('End Function');
document.writeln(WM_startTagFix+'script>');
}

function WM_pluginDetect(plugindescription, pluginxtension, pluginmime, activeXname){

//This script block will test all user agents that have a real plug-in array

//(i.e. Netscape) and set the variables, otherwise it directs the routine

// to WM_activeXDetect to detect the activeX control.



// First define some variables
var i,plugin_undetectable=0,detected=0, daPlugin=new Object();


// Then we check to see if it's an MSIE browser that you can actually

// check for the plugin in question.

if (msie_windows && WM_detect_through_vb){
plugin_undetectable = 0;
} else {
plugin_undetectable = 1;
}



// If it has a real plugins or mimetypes array, we look there for the plugin first

if(navigator.plugins) {
numPlugins = navigator.plugins.length;
if (numPlugins > 1) {
if (navigator.mimeTypes && navigator.mimeTypes[pluginmime] && navigator.mimeTypes[pluginmime].enabledPlugin && (navigator.mimeTypes[pluginmime].suffixes.indexOf(pluginxtension) != -1)) { // seems like we have it, let's just make sure and check the version (if specified)
if ((navigator.appName == 'Netscape') && (navigator.appVersion.indexOf('4.0') != -1)) { // stupid, stupid Netscape can't handle the references to navigator.plugins by number, sooo...
for(i in navigator.plugins) {
if ((navigator.plugins.description.indexOf(plugindescription) != -1) || (i.indexOf(plugindescription) != -1)) { // some versions of quicktime have no description. feh!
detected=1;
break;
}
}
} else {
for (i = 0; i < numPlugins; i++) {
daPlugin = navigator.plugins;
if ((daPlugin.description.indexOf(plugindescription) != -1) || (daPlugin.name.indexOf(plugindescription) != -1)) {
detected=1;
break;
}
}
}

// Mac weirdness
if (navigator.mimeTypes[pluginmime] == null) {
detected = 0;
}
}
return detected;
} else if((msie_windows == 1) && !plugin_undetectable){
return WM_activeXDetect(activeXname);
} else {
return 0;
}
} else {
return 0;
}
}


// this next function just makes it easy to detect the common plugins

function WM_easyDetect(whichPlugin) {

// this function just makes it easy to do basic plug-in detection without

// knowing all the mimetypes and activeX names and such
var isItThere = 0;
if( (whichPlugin == 'flash') || (whichPlugin == 'Flash') ) {
isItThere = WM_pluginDetect('Flash', 'swf', 'application/x-shockwave-flash', 'ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash');
} else if( (whichPlugin == 'director') || (whichPlugin == 'Director') ) {
isItThere = WM_pluginDetect('Shockwave', 'dcr', 'application/x-director', 'SWCtl.SWCtl.1');
} else if( (whichPlugin == 'quicktime') || (whichPlugin == 'Quicktime') || (whichPlugin == 'QuickTime') ) {
isItThere = WM_pluginDetect('QuickTime', 'mov', 'video/quicktime', '');
} else if( (whichPlugin == 'realaudio') || (whichPlugin == 'Realaudio') || (whichPlugin == 'RealAudio') ) {
isItThere = (WM_pluginDetect('RealPlayer', 'rpm', 'audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin', 'RealPlayer.RealPlayer(tm) ActiveX Control (32-bit)')) || (WM_pluginDetect('RealPlayer', 'rpm', 'audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin','rmocx.RealPlayer G2 Control')) || (WM_pluginDetect('RealPlayer', 'rpm', 'audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin','RealPlayer.RealPlayer(tm) ActiveX Control (32-bit)')) || (WM_pluginDetect('RealPlayer', 'rpm', 'audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin','RealVideo.RealVideo(tm) ActiveX Control (32-bit)'))
} else {

alert('You need to tell me which plug-in to look for, like so:\n\n' + ' WM_easyDetect(\'flash\')\n\n' + ' WM_easyDetect(\'director\')\n\n' + ' WM_easyDetect(\'quicktime\')\n\n' + ' WM_easyDetect(\'realaudio\')');
}
return isItThere;
}


// -->

</script> Regards

Big Dave


** If I am wrong I am sorry, but i'm only trying to help!! **