Force People to use Flash 8

So, I have this crazy cool site that I did in Flash 8. I used
all sorts of the features that you could never do before and it
looks stellar. Now, my only problem is that not everybody has Flash
8 and when users of the previous Flash Players view it, there's a
lot thats missing.
My question is this:
How do I basically force the user to get Flash 8? The
standard "would you like to upgrade to flash 8" doesn't really
drive home the point. And if they can't get flash 8, how can I make
it so that they can still see the most important visuals such as
text and so on?

well, that may be misleading - you certainly can incorporate
Flash detection that sniffs out what
player version they currently have and redirect them to the
download page. There's player detection
built in to the publish settings (check hekp docs) but there
are other methods like ExpressInstall:
http://blog.deconcept.com/flashobject/
search google and especially the devnet site because
detection has been around for as long as flash
has and been discussed in the forum on an almost weekly
basis.
hope this helps.
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joeq wrote:
> How do I basically force the user to get Flash 8?
>
> you can't. you can only try to give the a compelling
argument as to why they
> should. so ? why should they? besides from the fact that
the site looks cool,
> what's in it for them? think about your audience and try
to get a handle as to
> what it would take to get them to go to additional
effort.
>

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> Can anyone help me with flash buttons? I am trying to
build my first
> website,
> and my five flash buttons (inside a 5 col. table) for
page navigation work
> fine
> in testing all 5 web pages with mozilla firefox, and
they look the same on
> the
> index page when testing with IE-7. However when I begin
navigating to
> other
> pages in IE-7, the flash buttons disappear, and the 5
cols in the table
> where
> each flash button was placed now are not equal sizes
anymore like they are
> on
> the index page. In my files area on the right, I notice
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> buttons I created have about 15 to 20 "generations"
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> numbers 1
> through 15 or even more to qualify them tacked on to the
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