How do ya load images for those without Flash?

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I'm very new to Flash. Just installed Flash MX a couple days ago. So far so good.

I bought a generic flash header thingie for one of my sites, and now I've fiddled with Flash enough so I managed to customize it just the way I wanted it.

I'm using the following code to display the header on my HTML pages..

Code:



<OBJECT classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=5,0,0,0" WIDTH=780 HEIGHT=185>

	 <PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="0151.swf">

	 <PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high>

	 <PARAM NAME=bgcolor VALUE=#ffffff>

	 <EMBED src="0151.swf" quality=high bgcolor=#ffffff  WIDTH=780 HEIGHT=185 TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash">

	 </EMBED>

</OBJECT>

..That code has no problems..it makes a window pop up if the Flash plugin hasn't been installed yet, asking if you want to install it.

But I know a lot of people who hate Flash with a passion, so I'd like to do it a little diferently. Ideally, if the flash plugin is not installed it should simply load a jpg image for the header instead. I don't want a flash & non-flash version of all the pages either. Anybody know the best way to pull this off?

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Well, this is actually pretty easy once you are off in the right direction. You need client-side scripting so you should use javascript.

Here is a simple way:

IN HEAD:

Code:

<SCRIPT Language = "JavaScript">



function FlashInstalled()

{

	result = false;



	if (navigator.mimeTypes && navigator.mimeTypes["application/x-shockwave-flash"])

	{

		result = navigator.mimeTypes["application/x-shockwave-flash"].enabledPlugin;

	}

	else if (document.all && (navigator.appVersion.indexOf("Mac")==-1))

	{

		eval ('try {var xObj = new ActiveXObject("ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash");if (xObj)	result = true; xObj = null;	} catch (e)	{}');

	}

	return result;

}



function FlashWrite(url,width,height)

{

	document.write('<OBJECT classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"');

	document.write('  codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=5,0,0,0" ');

	document.write('  WIDTH=' + width + ' HEIGHT=' + height + '>');

	document.write(' <PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="' + url + '"> <PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high> <PARAM NAME=bgcolor VALUE=#FFFFFF>  '); 

	document.write(' <EMBED src="' + url + '" quality=high bgcolor=#FFFFFF  ');

	document.write(' swLiveConnect=FALSE WIDTH=' + width + ' HEIGHT=' + height);

	document.write(' TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash">');

	document.write(' </EMBED></OBJECT>');

}

</SCRIPT>

call it:

Code:

<SCRIPT Language = "JavaScript">

if (FlashInstalled())

	FlashWrite('flashfile.swf',468,60);

else

	document.write('<img src="img.gif" width=600 height=400 border="0">');

</SCRIPT>

There are many other ways, including page redirects etc. But you get the general idea. Use clientside scripting to detect the plugin and then it's a simple if / else.

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um, I don't feel like uninstalling flash to test it so if you do test it lemme know how it goes.

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Fantastic. Thanks for the quick reply, Craven! I'll implement the changes as soon as I get a couple other things worked out for it.

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Craven de Kere wrote:

um, I don't feel like uninstalling flash to test it so if you do test it lemme know how it goes.

Will do. But since I don't wanna uninstall Flash either it'll be a few days before I can upload it and check it out on another PC without Flash, as right now I'm removing the menus from the swf & putting them into DHTML so I gotta get that going before I upload again.

Cheers mate!

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I like the header BTW, can you PM me the place you bought it from?

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Bit overdue here, but it works great!

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Good news. ;-)

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How would I use this for a site who needs to use two different .swf, and two different .jpg?

Just changes the variables?

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You could just use it twice while renaming the function. That's the easiest way. But rewriting the script would be better (I don't have time to do this since I won't uninstall flash).

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You shouldn't need to rewrite the script that goes in HEAD, just change the variables in the part used to call it. eg:

Code:

<SCRIPT Language = "JavaScript"> 

if (FlashInstalled()) 

   FlashWrite('flashfile1.swf',200,100); 

else 

   document.write('<img src="img1.gif" width=200 height=100 border=0>'); 

</SCRIPT>

...Some page content in between...

Code:

<SCRIPT Language = "JavaScript"> 

if (FlashInstalled()) 

   FlashWrite('flashfile2.swf',200,100); 

else 

   document.write('<img src="img2.gif" width=200 height=100 border=0>'); 

</SCRIPT>

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Quite right. I forgot that the width and height variables are passed to the head code from the invocation code.

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It's a vera useful script. Thanks fer posting it Crave.

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I use the same principle in a script for multiple user launched popups from the same headscript.

I collect these and tinker with them all the time.

When A2K 3.0 comes out it will have a huge collection of scripts with the goal of having the largest collection online within a year.

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Whoop-de-freaking-doo!! If this was somehow tied in with forum stuff, where people could post comments on, ask for help with, or post modifications to the script that'd be wicked!--and unique as far as I know for a behemoth-script-gallery type of page.

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Forum integration is the key. It's goan be a big project but I've been planning it for over a year now and am quite ready.

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Methinks something it would really need is a way to somehow rate each script and comment (since some comments would contain code). 'Twould be very helpful when navigating huge lists of scripts.

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Yup, it will ahve both of those features.

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Okay, the code above works great on English systems, but with Japanese IE6 it doesn't work. I suppose it's possible that browsers in some languages other than Japanese have the same problem. It still asks if you'd like to install Flash (and if you say no it doesn't load the alternate picture of course).

So there's something in the FlashInstalled() function that's returning an inaccurate 'true' with Japanese IE. Any ideas?

Here's the FlashInstalled() function from the script above...

Code:

function FlashInstalled() 

{ 

   result = false; 



   if (navigator.mimeTypes && navigator.mimeTypes["application/x-shockwave-flash"]) 

   { 

      result = navigator.mimeTypes["application/x-shockwave-flash"].enabledPlugin; 

   } 

   else if (document.all && (navigator.appVersion.indexOf("Mac")==-1)) 

   { 

      eval ('try {var xObj = new ActiveXObject("ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash");if (xObj)   result = true; xObj = null;   } catch (e)   {}'); 

   } 

   return result; 

}

Perhaps I'm entirely wrong & it's something other than the different browser aspect that's causing the false positive. Any other ideas what could cause this problem?

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hmm, after looking at that code again I'm guessing the problem is that the flash plugin (application/x-shockwave-flash) has a different name in Japanese. If I'm right it'd mean that for this script to work for EVERYONE you'd prolly have to add code to check for the plugin in a bunch of languages. Mad

Anywho, I'll try to find out if there is in fact an alternate name for the plugin in japanese.

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How do ya load images for those without Flash?

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