Flash Mx detection from Kirupa.com

programming flash
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Can anyone tell me whether the Flash detection script found at :

http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/detection.asp

will be fine to use for a Flash movie created using Flash MX?

would it return anyone having a version lower than mx to the noflash page?

Thanks for the help!
:slight_smile:

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Did you read the page?

While 90% of people do use have the Flash plug-in installed, not everyone has the <B>Flash 6 Player</B> or even the Flash 5 Player installed on their computers.

Not to mention in the URL it says mx :-\

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I know itā€™s fine for Flash MX - that wasnā€™t what I was trying to get atā€¦what i want to know is if the user has Flash 5 or below will they be sent to the noflash page or will it still accept flash 5ā€¦
Iā€™m new to all this so please excuse my ignorance. thnx

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Oh sorry, I misunderstood. Also, I reread my last post and I must sayā€¦ please forgive my ignorance, it kind of came out wrong.

No, this script will not allow Flash 5 users to be directed to your Flash Page. It only checks for Flash 6 and redirects that.

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i was wonderingā€¦is there any way you might be able to help me with a tricky preloader in mxā€¦havenā€™t had much luck so far on the forumā€¦really desparado to crack this!

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how tricky of a preloader? What do you want it to do?

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I have been trying to figure out some tricky stuff involving preloaders in Flash MX and after have had little response so farā€¦here goesā€¦

1)I have my main movie

2)I have external swf files

3)When I click on a button which is inside a loaded swf in the main movie - it calls another external swf (slide.swf) file to be loaded into the main movie.

4)This file slide.swf plays an animation and then will call for the main movie to go to a particular frame in the main movieā€¦so far this all works greatā€¦

5)Now for the tricky part - before slide.swf calls the frame in the main movie - I need it to preload a few things:

*3 external .swf files
*a MC on the main movie
*specific frames on the main movie (or would this include the MC?)

I have found a huge amount of scripts that deal with preloading but Iā€™m no hardened scripter and they all make no sense to me at all. Also Iā€™ve noticed a lot of people talking about loading external files into movieclips - but firstly I donā€™t want my .swf files to show up while they are preloading and I donā€™t understand why there isnā€™t an easier way to preload in flash mxā€¦why do i have to use empty movieclips is there no easier way?

Sorry for the longwinded explanation! I would really appreciate any advice you could give meā€¦

Thanks

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  1. You canā€™t preload external content until you load it. I usually put a preloader on the .swf file I am loading. The point of loading files external is to not load what is not going to be used. Loading everything at once defeats that purpose.

  2. You canā€™t preload a specific MC or frames in a movie that I know of at least.

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so then would it be a good solution to use a preloader in the beginning of every swf I load?

What is the best way to do that - totalBytes? - would that include all MC and frames in that swf?

thanks :slight_smile:

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yeah _getTotalBytes() I believe it is would be the best method.

It loads everything in your movie, and actually, now that ifFramesLoaded has been deprecated, I believe _getTotalBytes is the only method of preloading.

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Thanks for that - everything is working really well now :stuck_out_tongue:

I ended up putting the preloader inside the swf I was loading which is preloading successfully, but one thing i donā€™t getā€¦

when i test movie and view the bandwidth profiler and show streaming i see that before frame 1 even starts with the preloader the movie sits at frame 0 and buffers about 50/60 K before going to frame 1 and this happens on all my movies.

Do you have any ideas as to why that would happen? As a result before the preloader even shows the bytes loading i have a white screen (movie background colour) and then goes to frame 1ā€¦

thanks for all the help :slight_smile:

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Is anything in your library set to Export to frame 1?

If you right click on something in the library and choose ā€œLinkageā€, then select ā€œExport for Actionscriptā€ it chooses to export to frame 1.

This would be the only thing I can think of right now :-\