Detecting Shockwave Player

[regtrashcan]

I have a webpage that detects whether Shockwave Player is installed and
the version number. The javascript/vbscript that I use has worked fine
until the latest release of the Shockwave Player. I am still able to
detect the Shockwave Player and the version number when using
Firefox/Netscape, but not with IE. I have my own detection script that
I use, but I've also used the detection scripts supplied from
Macromedia, but it still won't detect the shockwave player when using
IE. Anyone have any thoughts on this?

 

[Giggle Girl]

A guy named Commander Blop published an IE Plugin detector using
VBScript/Jscript a couple years ago, and I still use his solution...

See (4 messages down the thread):

http://groups.google.com/group/[email protected]&rnum=11#3e2b9fa33dee4ca4

You need to determine what the NEW signature of Shockwave is in the
Windows Registry, and then use the method outlined in the thread
above...

Giggle Girl

 

[Martin Honnen]

I have a webpage that detects whether Shockwave Player is installed and
the version number. The javascript/vbscript that I use has worked fine
until the latest release of the Shockwave Player. I am still able to
detect the Shockwave Player and the version number when using
Firefox/Netscape, but not with IE. I have my own detection script that
I use, but I've also used the detection scripts supplied from
Macromedia, but it still won't detect the shockwave player when using
IE. Anyone have any thoughts on this?

If you say you use VBScript then you use that obviously for detecting
the player in IE/Win as that is the only browser supporting VBScript.
Thus if your detection does not work for IE then you probably need to
change the VBScript code and this group is not the place to look for
help with that. Macromedia used to have newsgroups/forums of its own
where you might find help detecting their players.

 

[Paul]

Here's a script the is working (for me) for the NEW Shockwave Player
(10.1.1r16) - released 3/14/2006:

<script language="vbscript">
<!-- // Visual basic helper required to detect Flash Player ActiveX
control version information
Function GetSWVersion()
on error resume next
dim SWControla, SWver
set SWControla = CreateObject("SWCtl.SWCtl")
if (IsObject(SWControla)) then
SWver = "...installed! Version: "+SWControla.ShockwaveVersion("")
else
SWver = "...not installed."
end if
GetSWVersion = SWver
End Function
//-->

document.write "Shockwave"+GetSWVersion()

</script>

I use Windows XP and IE6. I had used a different script for 3 years,
but the latest version of the player does not function with my old
detection script. This should work. I hope it helps.

Paul.