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Detecting adobe flash version on IE7 - vista

It appears I'm not able to detect the installed version of flash on Vista/IE7.

The following code fails:

var x = new ActiveXObject('ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash');

The error I'm getting is:

automation server cannot create object

Looking at the Adobe Flash Detection Kit (from adobe), it looks like that's failing as well. I only have 1 vista machine to test with, so I'm curious:

  • Are there ways around the problem
  • Does this problem occur for everyone?

I have successfully tested this on IE6 and IE7 on Windows XP.

Solution

  • There are great examples on how to retrieve the version of currently installed Flash version. All of the similar examples are using actionscript (v2+), they just assemble information about the flash version and show it to the user.