 | | | Flash 6 Xtra and build 102 (continued) | Flash 6 Xtra and build 102 (continued) 2003-12-08 - By simon oliver
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Hey all.
I've been having a dig around, trying to find a solution to the problems
with the Flash 6 Xtra not running with earlier builds of the shockwave
plugin and the fact that you cant update the plugin itself to a more
recent build without uninstalling. Upon closer inspection, it seems that
the problem lies with "SwDir.dll" (located at
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\Macromed\Director), registered as the ActiveX
component used to embed shockwave content on IE. For all builds above
102, the version number of swdir is stuck at 102, meaning that it always
thinks that it is up-to-date. So if you need to get the player to update
by setting the version number in the cabs to say #version=8,5,1,106 you
will end up with an infinite loop. I think that if they were to update
this build number on the version of "SwDir.dll" downloaded by the
shockwave installer at
"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/director/sw.cab"
As a workaround, I tried building a couple of pages to force a one-off
update
http://www.randommedia.co.uk/users/simon/swupdate/system_test.htm
The idea is to get shockwave test the version number and if below a
threshold, to get the browser to go to an html page with a tiny
shockwave movie, with #version=8,5,1,106. This would force it to update
and then in the movie itself, once updated, get it to go to the original
version test page again, where it would pass no problem.
This would work fine in theory, except that when downloaded, it spawns
the update page in a new window, rather than loading over the giant
"shockwave loading" window. In the new window, it of course loads the
html page that forces an update, so infite install loop time again. Any
ideas as to how to get the movie to load in its own window rather than a
spawn?
si
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