How to make sure my viewers have Flash 8 Player

Question:

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I want to make sure that the viewers of my Flash Gallery already have Flash 8 Player. This is because Flash 8 Player supports all kind of images like progressive jpegs, gif and png while older versions support only standard jpeg.

Answer:

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Starting with Flash Album Generator 2.02, you can enforce Flash 8 Player by editing the generated XML file. It has the same name as your photo album name or title.

You can add an extra FlashVersion element in the meta tag. Here is a sample:

<meta>
  <entry name="thumbnailShadow">4</entry>
  <entry name="shadowAlpha">50</entry>
  ...
  <entry name="FlashVersion">8</entry>
</meta>

When this option is set the Flash Gallery viewer checks the flash version the user has and if it is less than specified - it does a very cool inline update to the latest Flash Player version. This is also known as Express Install

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