Get Flash Player version

Afrow UK
27th October 2005 15:57 UTC

Get Flash Player version
http://nsis.sourceforge.net/wiki/Get..._Flash_version

Edit:
What happened here lol
My reply went to the top...

-Stu

pistahun
27th October 2005 15:58 UTC

Get Flash Player version
Hi!

Read example "Macromedia Flash Player installed?". Very good!

Question: flash player version?

Thx answer!

Instructor
27th October 2005 16:10 UTC

Name "Output"
OutFile "Output.exe"

!include "WordFunc.nsh"
!insertmacro WordFind

!include "FileFunc.nsh"
!insertmacro GetFileVersion

Section
        ReadRegStr $0 HKCR "ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash\shell\open\command" ""
        IfErrors notinst

        ${WordFind} '$0' '"' '+1' $0

        ${GetFileVersion} '$0' $1
        IfErrors notinst

        MessageBox MB_OK '$$0={$0}$\n$$1={$1}' IDOK end

        notinst:
        MessageBox MB_OK 'Macromedia Flash Player is not found'

        end:
SectionEnd

pistahun
27th October 2005 21:25 UTC

Unfortunetly, the examples don't work right! :-(
Macromedia MX is installed on my system ( with flash 6 integrated ), and after it i installed the Flash Player 8.

After it the values that were given back to the version numbers: 6.0.21.0 and 7.0.19.0.

How will I know the right version number?

Thank you in anticipation!

Instructor
28th October 2005 05:57 UTC

This code to return Macromedia Flash Player version of the default player for the .spl and .swf. If you run "file.swf" from the explorer you can check it. This code doesn't return version of the default browser flash plugin.

Name "Output"
OutFile "Output.exe"

!include "WordFunc.nsh"
!insertmacro WordFind

!include "FileFunc.nsh"
!insertmacro GetFileVersion

Section
        ReadRegStr $0 HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT "ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash\shell\open\command" ""
        IfErrors notinst

        ${WordFind} '$0' ' %1' '-1{' $0
        ${WordFind} '$0' '"' '+1' $0

        ${GetFileVersion} '$0' $1
        IfErrors notinst


        MessageBox MB_OK '$$0={$0}$\n$$1={$1}' IDOK end

        notinst:
        MessageBox MB_OK 'Macromedia Flash Player is not installed'

        end:
SectionEnd

pistahun
28th October 2005 13:19 UTC

I'm sorry... :-( Question bad. :-(
Aright question: return version of the default browser flash plugin?
Default browser - only - Internet Explorer.

Instructor
28th October 2005 14:26 UTC

For Internet Explorer:

Name "Output"
OutFile "Output.exe"

!include "FileFunc.nsh"
!insertmacro GetFileVersion

Section
        ReadRegStr $0 HKCR "CLSID\{D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000}\InprocServer32" ""
        IfErrors notinst

        ${GetFileVersion} '$0' $1
        IfErrors notinst

        MessageBox MB_OK '$$0={$0}$\n$$1={$1}' IDOK end

        notinst:
        MessageBox MB_OK 'Macromedia Flash Player component for IE is not found'

        end:
SectionEnd

pistahun
28th October 2005 20:26 UTC

Very, very good!
Thx!

Yurik
13th June 2006 16:05 UTC

Re: Get Flash Player version

Originally posted by Afrow UK
http://nsis.sourceforge.net/wiki/Get..._Flash_version

Edit:
What happened here lol
My reply went to the top...

-Stu

This doesn't work for flash version 8 as it installs ocx with another name (flash8.ocx).

Afrow UK
13th June 2006 16:12 UTC

But it has Push "flash.ocx" for the function call which you can change (or did you add that in just now?)

-Stu

Yurik
13th June 2006 16:16 UTC

So, I need two calls in order to determine flash version - one for flash 8 and (in case of failure) for flash with previous version?

Afrow UK
13th June 2006 16:18 UTC

I guess so yes :)

-Stu

battleline
15th June 2006 22:37 UTC

Can NSIS be used to download the flash player if it can not find the proper version?

JasonFriday13
15th June 2006 23:31 UTC

Yes. Use the NSISdl plugin (included with NSIS), or the InetLoad plug-in to download it.