How to find out Flash Player version from Action Script 3.0

Question

Is there a way to find out the version of the flash player installed on the computer that runs our SWF file using Action Script 3.0?

Answer 1

If you program inside the IDE, you will get the following version:

trace (Capabilities.version);

If you create a custom class, the following should help. Verify that the following code is in a file named VersionCheck.as

package
{
    import flash.system.Capabilities;

    public class VersionCheck
    {
        public function VersionCheck (): void
        {
            trace (Capabilities.version);
        }
    }
}

, , , AS3 http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/.

Answer 2

flash.system.Capabilities.version

Answer 3

This example can help figure out the details that you receive so that you can act on the specifics of the somewhat inconvenient data that you receive.

import flash.system.Capabilities;


var versionNumber:String = Capabilities.version;
trace("versionNumber: "+versionNumber);
trace("-----");

// The version number is a list of items divided by ","
var versionArray:Array = versionNumber.split(",");
var length:Number = versionArray.length;
for(var i:Number = 0; i < length; i++) trace("versionArray["+i+"]: "+versionArray[i]);
trace("-----");

// The main version contains the OS type too so we split it in two
// and we'll have the OS type and the major version number separately.
var platformAndVersion:Array = versionArray[0].split(" ");
for(var j:Number = 0; j < 2; j++) trace("platformAndVersion["+j+"]: "+platformAndVersion[j]);
trace("-----");

var majorVersion:Number = parseInt(platformAndVersion[1]);
var minorVersion:Number = parseInt(versionArray[1]);
var buildNumber:Number = parseInt(versionArray[2]);

trace("Platform: "+platformAndVersion[0]);
trace("Major version: "+majorVersion);
trace("Minor version: "+minorVersion);
trace("Build number: "+buildNumber);
trace("-----");

if (majorVersion < 9) trace("Your Flash Player version is older than the current version 9, please update.");
else trace("You are using Flash Player 9 or later.");