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Support for newer flash versions?

Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2010 2:01 pm
by Raubi
Hi,

is there any chance of getting a built in support for newer flashversions (like version 10)?

If i try to add a movie.swf (flash 10) and show it on a clean system (flash.ocx added to support files), it won't come up. Doing the same with a flash 6 version of the file will work.

Would be nice to have version 10 run out-of-the-box

Re: Support for newer flash versions?

Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2010 9:22 pm
by mills
From Help (F1) Topic "Using Interactive Progress Flash":
To display Flash movies, the player runtime needs to be present on the end-user system. The moment a dialog containing the FlashFrame control is shown, InstallAware will automatically attempt to install the player runtime if it is not already available. If the installation fails, the dialog will not render the movie, but no setup error will occur - your installation will continue normally.

The runtime file that is used in this automated installation process is automatically added to your project as a support file under the name flash.ocx. This addition occurs moment you add a movie to your setup. You may replace the default runtime file with a newer/older version of the runtime. To do so, simply add the desired version of the runtime file as a support file under the name flash.ocx to your project. You may also delete the runtime file from the list of support files, however in this case if the end-user system lacks the runtime, none of your movies will render (although the setup itself will not be affected).
I followed the instructions and searched for *.ocx on my system (knowing flash 10 was installed). I found a Flash10c.ocx and copied it, renaming to flash.ocx. I imported that as the support file.

The control then displays flash 10 content.

I've notified development and asked them to include the latest version in our next release.

Re: Support for newer flash versions?

Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2010 2:04 am
by Raubi
Ah, I searched just for a flash.ocx and didn't find a newer one.

Would be nice, if the new version includes the new flash.ocx.

Thanks for your help.

Re: Support for newer flash versions?

Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2010 7:17 am
by Raubi
FYI: I found a Flash10g.ocx on my computer, renamed it to flash.ocx and added it as support file. Now, as you said, it works very well with flash 10 movies :)