Flash Player Detection

[dfiore]

I can't seem to locate if there is any sort of flash player detection built into the FusionCharts package. Right now, in Internet Explorer, if I don't have flash player installed, I just get boxes with little red "X"s in them. Is there a way to enable a more user-friendly message that you need Flash Player installed? Thanks!

[agb12]

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[Pallav]

As of now, there isn't an in-built mechanism. We'll be adding that in sometime.

[jspath]

SWFObject, the library that FusionCharts.js is built from, has version detection built into it.

 

 

 

I took some time today and hacked version detection from the newest version of SWFObject into FusionCharts.js and attached the result to this post.

 

 

 

I set the version requirement to at least 8.0.0 ... I have no idea if that is the minimum version or not

 

 

 

It seems to work for me, but it would be much better if the FusionCharts team would integrate the lastest SWFObject into FusionCharts.js completely.

FusionCharts_Detection.zip

[Pallav]

Attached please find the official FusionCharts.js that supports version detection.

FusionCharts.zip

[badbandit]

thanks for the helpful files, but could you please explain a little bit more?

 

 

 

with swfobject i can specify a div-container with an id name, where i can put the content to be shown, if there is not the needed flashplayer installed. how can i specify the div-container here? what id name does it need.

 

 

 

thanks for your help.

 

 

 

EDIT: ok, i found it in the fusionchart.php. thanks!

Edited July 24, 2007 by Guest

[Pallav]

Here, in the DIV that you embed the chart, you can write your message that user will see when he doesn't have the required version of Flash Player.

Also, this JS file alerts the user that since he doesn't have the required version of Flash Player, he cannot see the charts.

[msneen]

When you say "Here, in the DIV", what do you mean?  Do you have a brief example

Here's what I thought you meant and tried in .Net but it doesn't work right.

 
<td>
	 <div id="divGetProductsOnHandChartHtml">
	  <%=GetProductsOnHandChartHtml()%>
			   Flash Player Not Installed
	 </div>
</td>