The flash installer (playerProductInstall.swf) tries to reload the container page in a new Explorer window when the installation is complete. Today, I found out why they do this, and I was wondering if anyone knows of a work-around...
My first idea was this: If a new version is required, pop up a new window containing the installer. Then, from the container, poll the flash version (DetectFlashVer()) until it's updated. This didn't work. DetectFlashVer() kept returning the same old version number. So just to see how bad the situation was, I refreshed the containing HTML page after Flash 9 was installed. And lo -- the installer page popped right back up. So even after a refresh, it can't detect the flash version correctly. Is there any way to fix this? This page sometimes shows up in an embedded MSHTML control, so it's not always possible to reload the page in a new window.
