adobe flash required message

**canemasters** · 15 Aug 2007, 04:12 PM

I need my site to display a sign that only appears to users who do not have flash installed, that the need to go to

http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/downl...ShockwaveFlash

and get flahs before using the site.

Thank you!

**gjh42** · 15 Aug 2007, 04:39 PM

...and if they don't feel like getting Flash installed, or for some reason can't, you don't want to sell to them?

Best practice is to allow at least basic functional use to anybody visiting your site. You can enhance the experience with flash or javascript if you want, but there should be a way to use your site without them.

**Stuff4Toys** · 15 Aug 2007, 04:57 PM

Originally Posted by canemasters

I need my site to display a sign that only appears to users who do not have flash installed, that the need to go to

http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/downl...ShockwaveFlash

and get flahs before using the site.

Thank you!

Don't remember how now, but 4 or 5 years ago I had a flash panel on a website, and had an "Alternate Image" for viewers that didn't have flash. It consisted of a static graphic that fit in the same place as the Flash presentation.

**canemasters** · 15 Aug 2007, 06:23 PM

So it would be best practice to make an alternate .jpg header so users can at least get around... Sounds good. I'll have to make one, but that should be no problem. I'll worry how to make it work after I get it made.

Thank you.

**Stuff4Toys** · 15 Aug 2007, 08:14 PM

Now this is several years old, not sure how it's done now. And based on Macromedia not Adobe Flash, but I would assume it's similar because this script still works. JOhn ><>

Code:

 
<MAP NAME="slideshow">
 <AREA COORDS="0,0,0,0" HREF="#">
</MAP> 
 
 <SCRIPT language=JavaScript1.1>
 <!--
 if ( MM_FlashCanPlay ) {
  document.write('<OBJECT classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"');
  document.write('  codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/s...ersion=6,0,0,0" ');
  document.write(' ID="script" WIDTH="460" HEIGHT="200" ALIGN="">');
  document.write(' <PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="http://www.trackermarine.com/gifs/PhotoPresentation.swf"> <PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high> <PARAM NAME=bgcolor VALUE=FF0000>  '); 
  document.write(' <EMBED src="http://www.trackermarine.com/gifs/PhotoPresentation.swf" quality=high bgcolor=FF0000  ');
  document.write(' swLiveConnect=FALSE WIDTH="460" HEIGHT="200" NAME="script" ALIGN=""');
  document.write(' TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer">');
  document.write(' </EMBED>');
  document.write(' </OBJECT>');
 } else{
  document.write('<IMG SRC="http://www.trackermarine.com/gifs/frontGraphic.jpg" WIDTH="460" HEIGHT="200" usemap="#slideshow" BORDER=0>');
 }
 //-->
 </SCRIPT><NOSCRIPT><IMG SRC="Noah_Images/BANNERS/frontGraphic[1].jpg" USEMAP="#slideshow" BORDER=0 width="460" height="200"></NOSCRIPT>

**Stuff4Toys** · 15 Aug 2007, 08:21 PM

This part went at the top of the page just below the
</head>
<body>

Code:

 
<SCRIPT language=JavaScript1.1>
<!--
var MM_contentVersion = 6;
var plugin = (navigator.mimeTypes && navigator.mimeTypes["application/x-shockwave-flash"]) ? navigator.mimeTypes["application/x-shockwave-flash"].enabledPlugin : 0;
if ( plugin ) {
  var words = navigator.plugins["Shockwave Flash"].description.split(" ");
     for (var i = 0; i < words.length; ++i)
     {
  if (isNaN(parseInt(words[i])))
  continue;
  var MM_PluginVersion = words[i]; 
     }
 var MM_FlashCanPlay = MM_PluginVersion >= MM_contentVersion;
}
else if (navigator.userAgent && navigator.userAgent.indexOf("MSIE")>=0 
   && (navigator.appVersion.indexOf("Win") != -1)) {
 document.write('<SCR' + 'IPT LANGUAGE=VBScript\> \n'); //FS hide this from IE4.5 Mac by splitting the tag
 document.write('on error resume next \n');
 document.write('MM_FlashCanPlay = ( IsObject(CreateObject("ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash." & MM_contentVersion)))\n');
 document.write('</SCR' + 'IPT\> \n');
}
//-->
</SCRIPT>

**canemasters** · 16 Aug 2007, 01:56 AM

Okay, I'm calling up my flash with:

I've gone ahead and made a jpg of the header. What do I do to make it call up this .jpg file if they do not have a flash browser? I'm thinking I have to do it in the swfobject.js file...?

**canemasters** · 16 Aug 2007, 05:15 PM

Wow, this is really lame. I've tried the suggestions listed on this page, and noting is working. It simply wont load an alternate image if flash is not installed. I've tried the <noscript> function, but nothing is working. I'm thinking about taking the flash out of the site entirely. I'm not about to loose customers just because they don't have flash installed. @#*@!! It took me 2 weeks to finish that header!

**canemasters** · 16 Aug 2007, 05:38 PM

Okay, I found a site that is working exactly how I want it to. If a user doesn't have flash, a little popup appears from adobe asking them to install flash.

http://www.moock.org/webdesign/flash...fpi/movie.html

BUT IT'S FOR HTML!!! DOH! There aren't any php instructions.

**canemasters** · 16 Aug 2007, 06:07 PM

WOOHOO! FIXED IT!

Used this code:

<script type="text/javascript" src="includes/templates/canemasters/jscript/swfobject.js"></script>
<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="includes/templates/canemasters/images/flash/header.swf" width="800" height="185">
<param name="movie" value="includes/templates/canemasters/images/flash/header.swf" />
<img src="includes/templates/canemasters/images/header.jpg" width="800" height="185" alt="header" title="header"/></object>

Now I just have to include an image map for the .jpg header
I've done that before though.

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