plugins

[pretpat]

To visit my website you need java flash and realplayer plugin and I want the visitor to get an alarm window when they do not have the plugin installed. I found several plugin scripts but all they do is show all installed plugins on your screen. So I need a script that will check for the specific plug in and warn them.

thanx

[khalidali63]

You will have to determine that for which plugins you want to look for,below it the code that Iuse to find out if flash is installed .

<script language="JavaScript">

//detect flash player plugin

if ( (navigator.plugins && navigator.plugins["Shockwave Flash"]) ) {
//ok flash is detected
flashDetected = true;
}

</script>

FYI
navigator.plugins is an array and you can get the length of this array by using "length" property.

Then iterate thru it and find out about the installed plugins.

Khalid

[swon]

That's probably not working on IE, cause the navigator.plugins.length always returns a '0' in IE, also IE don't know the name attribute of the plugins (plugins.name).

[pretpat]

You're right Swon i can't get it to work in IE. How can i change it so it will work in IE? And is there an option that allows parts of the plugin name? because the full plugin name for realplayer is: RealPlayer(tm) G2 LiveConnect-Enabled Plug-In (32-bit) . And when i leave out one thing it will say its not installed. This plugin seems to be a specific type of plugin and i think it will still alert the visitor it needs the plugin eventho it has realplayer installed but a different version.

[khalidali63]

My fault pretpat,
its my (bad?) habbit that I write code in NS browsers and some time forget to update it for IE.

below is the sample snippet that will look for flash in VBScript

<script language="VBScript">
<!--
'vbscript to see if the flash active x control capable browser

flashDetected = IsObject(CreateObject("ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash.4"))

//-->
</script>

follow the pattern and do a search over the internet to create a list of all the pluggins using VBScript

Khalid