Important Information for Dreamweaver Users

The Macromedia Flash Detection Kit contains a Macromedia Dreamweaver Behavior that will make the process of setting up a detection system easier to implement. To use the Macromedia Dreamweaver Behavior you must install it via Macromedia Extension Manager.

Important Note: The Macromedia Dreamweaver Behavior will place a file into the same directory as the page that contains your behavior.

Behavior Installation Instructions
To install the
Flash Detection Behavior for Macromedia Dreamweaver you must have Macromedia Extension Manager installed. If you do not have Macromedia Extension Manager, you can download it from the Macromedia Exchange home page located here:

http://www.macromedia.com/exchange/em_download/

Once you have Macromedia Extension Manager installed, please install the Macromedia Dreamweaver Behavior by double-clicking the file:

FlashDetection.mxp

This file is located in the "Dreamweaver Behavior" folder of the Macromedia Flash Detection Kit.

You can also install it from within Dreamweaver by selecting Manage Extensions from the Commands menu and clicking Install Extension.

Once the Macromedia Flash Detection Behavior has been installed, you may have to close and restart Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004, Macromedia Dreamweaver MX, or Macromedia Dreamweaver UltraDev if it was open when you installed the behavior.

Accessing the Dreamweaver Behavior
The Macromedia Flash Detection Behavior can be found in the Actions menu of the Behaviors panel in Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004, Macromedia Dreamweaver MX, or Macromedia Dreamweaver UltraDev. Click the plus button on the Behaviors panel to access the behavior.

Behavior Description
This Macromedia Dreamweaver Behavior is normally applied to a web page that appears before any Flash content is displayed on your site. Usually this is the index.html page or default.html page. The code applied by the behavior will redirect the user to the appropriate page, based on decisions specified here in the behavior. The action is such that the user will not see the page before they are redirected. Therefore, there is no need for graphics or text on this page.

Macromedia Flash Content URL - This is the URL of the web page that will contain your Macromedia Flash content.
Alternate Non-Flash URL - This is the URL for alternate non-Macromedia Flash content or an upgrade page. The behavior will point to this page when the user doesn't have the required version of Macromedia Flash.

Macromedia Flash Requirement - Version - This is the version of Macromedia Flash that is required to play your Macromedia Flash content located in the field specified in Macromedia Flash Content URL.
Macromedia Flash Requirement - Major Revision - Major Revision refers to the second part of the version so with Version 7.2 r11, Major Revision refers to the 2.
Macromedia Flash Requirement - Minor Revision - Minor Revision refers to the last part of the version so with Version 7.2 r11, Minor Revision refers to the 11.

Allow Auto-Update - Check this box if you want to auto-update the Macromedia Flash Player. This currently only applies to Microsoft Internet Explorer on Windows. Normally when the behavior detects that the user is using Microsoft Internet Explorer on Windows, the behavior redirects the user to your Macromedia Flash content, even if the user does not have the correct version of Macromedia Flash.
Then auto-update begins and attempts to install the latest version of Macromedia Flash.

Deployment (server upload) Instructions
The following files should be uploaded to your server:

  1. flash_detection.swf - this name should not be changed.
  2. yourfile.html - this name is often "index.html". This is the file to which you applied the behavior.
  3. any HTML file specified in altContentURL
  4. any HTML file specified in flashContentURL