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Anonymous

Question

flash method to detect the user browser version.

Forum|Forum|18 years ago
July 25, 2007
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Hello, I found this property in Flash: System.capabilities.
You can retreive some information about the user, but i did not find how i can detect
what kind of browser they use to view the flash.

example:
trace(System.capabilities.os); // output is the current Operating system.. in my case "Windows XP"

Does anyone know how to detect the browser and the version of it?

Regards,

Michea.

ActionScript

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kglad

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you're welcome.

kglad

Community Expert

great.

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Anonymous

Yes, it is...
BUT
it returns a VERY long string containing the full information about the browser and also the machine:
"mozilla/5.0 (macintosh; u; ppc mac os x; en) applewebkit/419.3 (khtml, like gecko) safari/419.3"

How can I treat this string to retain only the very last part of it ("safari/419.3") and display it as "Safari, 419.3"
I know this has something to do with indexOf but I don't know (and understand) how to use it...

Any idea?

kglad

Community Expert

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Anonymous

OH YES !!!
I fully agree with this.

kglad

Community Expert

no, i don't have a mac and i don't have safari.

and no, getting null would mean something is being returned while getting undefined could mean something is being returned or not.

anyway, it's easy to test the latter: call a non-existent function a see what you get.

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Anonymous

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Originally posted by: kglad
no, i don't have a mac and i don't have safari.
call a non-existent function a see what you get.

Too bad about Mac and Safari...
I did call for a non-existent function and got the same result: undefined

I thought the problem was Safari related. No doubt?

kglad

Community Expert

if you're using the same flash player version in safari as you are in your other browsers, then the problem is because of safari.

that doesn't necessarily mean the problem is in surmountable but it does mean it's not a flash/actionscript issue: it's probably a javascript and safari issue.

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Anonymous

My Flash Tracer module doesn't work for the moment with Firefox...
Don't know why...
But my .swf when using Firefox, now clearly displays the Browser and its Version !!!
I think my problem is Safari related.

I'm going to test with Netscape 7 for Mac...

kglad

Community Expert

it should work with all the browser's listed in the javascript.

the problem with flash tracer is a different issue. i have no trouble with flash tracer in firefox.

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Anonymous

I fully agree with you : it SHOULD but... it doesn't!
Safari is the only browser with which it doesn't work...
I tested it with IE, Netscape, Firefox and Opera.
Do you run Safari on Mac OS X? so you could be able to test it...
I put the code to get the values in the very first frame of the movie and it is on an "open" layer i.e. it is available from any frame of the movie.

Any idea to "force" the script to work for Safari?

For the Flash Tracer, I think the problem is Mac related...

Anyway, thanks for your time!

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Anonymous

We both have had the same idea at the same time !
I'm working on it.

But, a little remark :
If the communication between the .swf and the HTML page did not occur at all, the result should be "null".
If I get "undefined", I think it means that the communication exists but it gives no result...
What do you think ?

kglad

Community Expert

and are you using flash tracer to see the trace statements?

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Anonymous

You can inspect the source code of my HTML page at :
< http://www.notre-annuaire.com/test/start.html>

kglad

Community Expert

you're not testing in the test environment, are you?

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Anonymous

No.
I'm testing in real world.

kglad

Community Expert

use javascript in the html file and the externalinterface class in flash to communicate with the javascript.

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Anonymous

Does anybody has an example of this?

kglad

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