Flash Site Design - Flash Player 8 Update

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Flash Player 8 Update

mynameissam.co.uk

2006-05-22, 6:32 pm

Hey guys,

I've been tearing my hair out trying to get Flash Player 8 working properly.
Rather unsually, PC's on Internet Explorer (and some MACs) that have Flash
player 7, view the content without text (due to the Flash Player 8 only opiton:
Anti Alias for Readability)

Fair enough, but I need the user to update their player, I've posted before
and people have put me onto deConcepts solution:

<a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge
href="http://blog.deconcept.com/swfobject/">http://blog.deconcept.com/swfobject/
</a>

I used this to get round the Active X issue, which works fine, but I need help
with the expressInstall option.

Here is what I have:

In the htm file:

in head:

<script type="text/javascript" src="swfobject_source.js"></script>

in body:

<div id="flashcontent"></div>

<script type="text/javascript">
var so = new SWFObject("mynameissam.swf", "mynameissam", "790", "550", "7",
"#CCCCCC", "true");
so.write("flashcontent");
</script>

Seems fine? I have made sure that I have included the expressinstall.js file
and swfobject_source.js file. Next here is my flash actionscript in the first
frame of a movie. The movie itself is published in Flash * and contains Flash
content after frame 1 as this is the main content. Frame one is Flash 7
compliant and contains this code:

#include "expressinstall.as"

// initialize the ExpressInstall object
var ExpressInstall = new ExpressInstall();

// if the user needs to upgrade, show the 'start upgrade' button
if (ExpressInstall.needsUpdate) {
ExpressInstall.init();
stop();
}

This all seems fine, is it my publishing choice, if so what do i need to do.
I've knocked out the buttons e.t.c from the original as they are unwieldly and
I wanted to streamline it. Please help!

Thanks in advance

Sam

mynameissam.co.uk

2006-05-22, 6:32 pm

Sorry guys, when it says Flash * i mean flash 8!

DMennenoh **AdobeCommunityExpert**

2006-05-23, 6:37 pm

>> var so = new SWFObject("mynameissam.swf", "mynameissam", "790", "550",[color=darkred]

The only thing I can see, is that I think "true" should not be in quotes.

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