Old Photoshop Galleries Breaking with Flash Player 10

I have a number of old photo galleries generated from Photoshop CS2. A few of them are Flash based gallery.  Recently, I discovered that these were no longer loading and giving me a Flash Player not detected error.  The galleries in fact DO work, and if you click on the pass thru link you will arrive at a working photo gallery. But let’s be honest – what user is going to click that link?

So I started tracing the code and located the problem inside the FlashObject.js file. It’s quite comical really. The Flash Player detection code grabs a plugin description (ie: Flash Player 9.34) and then checks for the version by finding the period and selecting the character to the left. Woot!!! We have the version #.

Here was the code:

flashversion = y.charAt(y.indexOf(‘.’)-1);

Except, while that worked for versions 1-9, we now are at 10. And the above code returns a version number of zero.  So I modified the code below. It’s not the tightest code but it’s more readable.

var tmp10 = y.charAt(y.indexOf(‘.’)-2);
var tmp1 = y.charAt(y.indexOf(‘.’)-1);
if(isNaN(tmp10) == false)
{
flashversion = tmp10 + ” + tmp1;
}
else
{
flashversion = y.charAt(y.indexOf(‘.’)-1);
}

The result…Flash Player 10 is now detected. As will be other double-digit versions. And frankly, if my photo galleries are still around by Flash Player 100 – I will probably not be!

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I am posting the revised version of this file for download for those who are not programming literate. Simply download and unzip this file and replace the old FlashObject.js from your Photoshop CS2 generated photo gallery.

Download Revised flashobject.js File