Actually, Flash Player 7 can play Flash 8 swfs. Textfields with Flash 8 featuers (like advanced anti-aliasing) will just not render. Make sure you have no Flash 8 features applied to your textfield, or the movieclip containing it, and it will render as it should.
I'm not sure why it was mentioned that System.capabilities.version would be unreliable, but in case that it really is, you can use swfObject to determine the player type. The javascript: var a = deconcept.SWFObjectUtil.getPlayerVersion(); var pVer = escape(String([a.major, a.minor, a.rev])); You can then pass pVer to your swf via FlashVars or SetVariable(). Personally though, I would publish 2 versions of the website, one Flash 7 SWF and one Flash 8 SWF. <www.pierinc.com> On 3/21/07, Mick G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
You can use: trace(System.capabilities.version); to find the player version, then if it's > 7, do a loadMovie to load your v8 SWF. On 3/21/07, Jake Prime <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi > > I have a SWF which is published as Flash 8 purely to take advantage of > the filter effects that can be applied to dynamic text fields. The > problem is that I am now forced to deploy the project to Flash 7. > > I was hoping that I could do a detect within the SWF and serve up the > nice Flash 8 text fields for the majority who can see it, and just > have the plain old 7 ones for those who can't. > > Is there a way to do this within a single SWF? > > Thanks > Jake > _______________________________________________ > Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com > To change your subscription options or search the archive: > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > > Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software > Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training > http://www.figleaf.com > http://training.figleaf.com > _______________________________________________ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
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