Force expressinstall?

[midimid]

Is there any way to force express install depending on the version and/
or browser of the client? i.e. does it only run when the user has no
flash player?

I'm having a serious performance issue with a large flash project and
10.0.22 and only in Firefox 3.5+. It works fine all other browsers,
and when I upgrade to 10.0.32 it works fine in Firefox.

I'd like to force users with 10.0.22 on Firefox to update to 10.0.32.

[Aran Rhee]

You cannot "force" a user to upgrade (you are not Microsoft or Apple :)

What you can do is put the required Flash player version to 10.0.32 on your page, and user with a Flash player 6.0.65 goes to your page ( ExpressInstall only works with user who already have 6.0.65+)

If you are having performance issues, I would suggest rather than forcing every user to upgrade, you might want to debug/profile your project to see what the bottleneck actually is.

Aran

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[Getify Solutions, Inc.]

Moreover, I think the OP was asking how to only have express install prompt for upgrades for FF users, correct?

 

To do that, you need to do a little more with the API....

 

There's a swfobject.ua object (assuming you are using v2.2) that exposes properties like which browser. Check the API documentation for details.

 

So, basically, using that, you can construct an if-statement about only doing things in FF.

 

Then, you can use the API function hasFlashPlayerVersion() and if it isn't at least 10.0.32 (and the FF check passed), you can use the showExpressInstall() API function.

 

The documentation is your friend: 

 

http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/wiki/documentation

 

http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/wiki/api

 

 

 

--Kyle