# Flash Mx detection from Kirupa.com **URL:** \ **Category:** flash\ **Created:** [November 9, 2002, 4:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-mx-detection-from-kirupa-com/7876 "2002-11-09T16:03:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![noono](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/6bbea6/32.png) [@noono](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/noono)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2002, 4:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-mx-detection-from-kirupa-com/7876/1 "2002-11-09T16:03:06Z")
Can anyone tell me whether the Flash detection script found at : [http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/detection.asp](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! šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2002, 6:07pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-mx-detection-from-kirupa-com/7876/2 "2002-11-09T18:07:57Z")
Did you read the page? > While 90% of people do use have the Flash plug-in installed, not everyone has the \Flash 6 Player\ or even the Flash 5 Player installed on their computers. Not to mention in the URL it says mx :-\ ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2002, 6:39pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-mx-detection-from-kirupa-com/7876/3 "2002-11-09T18:39:01Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2002, 9:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-mx-detection-from-kirupa-com/7876/4 "2002-11-09T21:10:14Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2002, 8:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-mx-detection-from-kirupa-com/7876/5 "2002-11-10T20:01:21Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2002, 8:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-mx-detection-from-kirupa-com/7876/6 "2002-11-10T20:03:29Z")
how tricky of a preloader? What do you want it to do? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2002, 8:11pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-mx-detection-from-kirupa-com/7876/7 "2002-11-10T20:11:34Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2002, 8:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-mx-detection-from-kirupa-com/7876/8 "2002-11-10T20:14:02Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2002, 8:20pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-mx-detection-from-kirupa-com/7876/9 "2002-11-10T20:20:49Z")
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 šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2002, 8:21pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-mx-detection-from-kirupa-com/7876/10 "2002-11-10T20:21:56Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2002, 9:28am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-mx-detection-from-kirupa-com/7876/11 "2002-11-15T09:28:04Z")
Thanks for that - everything is working really well now šŸ˜› 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 šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2002, 5:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-mx-detection-from-kirupa-com/7876/12 "2002-11-15T17:56:02Z")
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 :-\