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yirm
9/23/2003 8:02:01 PM

flash (macromedia): I'm having trouble getting my Flash content to play in the user's existing
player. I have published "down" to Flash 4. Yet every time I open the page
in IE (PC), it downloads the latest version of Flash Player (7) and prompts
to install. How can I get my page just to play in the older players rather
than forcing download of the new player?

TIA.

-Jeremy

Re: Displaying in old Flash Players

yirm
9/23/2003 8:19:37 PM

Thanks for the fast answer. I thought the HTML was exported from Flash. If
that's the case, shouldn't it have created the code properly (based on my
publish settings). I may have inserted from DW, though -- in which case it
would make sense to specify the latest version available (at the time of the
DW release). Anyway, thanks for the code hint.

-Jeremy

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Re: Displaying in old Flash Players

yirm
9/23/2003 8:39:22 PM

One more thing.

At http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/oldplayers.htm, you
can download old Flash players. There are no instructions for installing
the ActiveX versions. I assumed that Right click > Install on the .INF
would do it, but apparently not. Anyone know how to install these ActiveX
controls?

Thanks.

-Jeremy

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Re: Displaying in old Flash Players

Jeckyl
9/24/2003 11:14:37 AM

That is most likely your HTML code that specifies the minium required Flash
Player version you want.

Look at the object and embed tags, and if there is something there like
6.0.79.0 etc, then replace it with 4,0,0,0 to ensure you have minimum of
Flash Player 4 (instead of Flash Player 6, or whatever the html is telling
the browser it needs).

Re: Displaying in old Flash Players

Jeckyl
9/24/2003 11:32:06 AM

No .. it doesn't do that.

All Flash does is read an html file from a folder in the installation and
just fill in your appropriate SWF file name etc. That template html file
has hard-coded in it what Flash Player control to use.

Either find that template and edit it (if you are doing LOTS of TML that you
want earlier player support). Or edit the HTML flash produces to make it
the way you want.

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