So add javascript codes for the Flash Player detection in your web page and alert user to the lack of Flash Player plug-in should be a good idea.

There is an article on Adobe web site talks about the solution for Flash Player detection and provides a sample kit for downloading.

The Client-side detection method is the one ICEspresso needs. After download the sample kit, just look for three files in the zip:

1. ClientSideDetection.html: the client-side detection sample page.

2. AC_OETags.js: the javascript library for Flash Player detection.

3. example.swf: the sample Flash movie.

Open ClientSideDetection.html in any text editor then copy-and-paste the codes to your ICEspresso application page.

The necessary parts are:

Code:

Code:

You may change the logic of

if (hasReqestedVersion) {…}

to what you want to act once required Flash Player plug-in has been installed.

The demo is programmed with PHP to illustrate how an user can see the presence (online, offline, or in which chatroom) of his/her 3 friends.

Beside the chatting, if you need ICEspresso to help you on displaying the member status in a social network software or community, you can easily adopt ICEspresso to integrate with the friend list.

>>> See the demo
>>> Download the source package

Changes from v0.9e to v0.9f:

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[Nov. 26, 2008] v0.9f
- Fix: a race condition that may result in deadlock during initialization phase.
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>>> download ICEspresso Chat Framework v0.9f

Hope it can help you easily start building your own game.

Check the document: How to customize your MapGame

>>> download API Reference v0.9e (HTML format)

Changes from v0.9c to v0.9e:

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[Nov. 07, 2008] v0.9e
- Add: FRIEND_QUITROOM event has been added to complement FRIEND_JOINROOM event.
- Mod: disconnect() now reset the Framework’s state to address

[Nov. 03, 2008] v0.9d
- Fix: fixed joinRoom(roomNme) method. joinRoom now performs a thorough sanity check on roomName.
roomName can only contains alphanumerical characters and must not exceed 32 characters.
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>>> download ICEspresso Chat Framework v0.9e

1. Get your Google Maps API key.

Note: Google will ask you to provide a web site URL for running the map application. But it is allowable while the map application runs under your local web (http://localhost/).

2. Download the MapChat source. Right-click then save as the mapchat.html file.

3. Open the mapchat.html in any editor and find the string “key=".

4. Replace the key value with your Google Maps API key obtained in step 1.. The following code snippet shows the key location (watch the “REPLACE_YOUR_KEY_HERE").

Code:

5. Get your free ICEspresso Chat connection pool account. You should get an account with user ID and password.

6. Find the string “user” in mapchat.html source.

7. Replace the values of user ID and password with the account you obtained in step 6.. As following code snippet shows.

Code:

If you want the marker to show different information, you may proceed the following steps:

8. Find the string “marker.attr” in mapchat.html source.

9. Replace the values of following attributes:

Code:

Note: The value of about attribute can contain HTML string.

10. Save the mapchat.html and run it under your live or local web.

Javascript developers can download the package from SourceForge.net.

ICEspresso Chat Framework is an open source project and it applies MIT License. Means you can feel free to use, modify, and distribute it as you keep the copyright announcement in the starting section of the library file icespressochat.js.

ICEspresso Team will keep developing the Framework and the backend ICEspresso Service.

Developer is welcomed to request our support on any ICEspresso application development issue.

Meet us on ICEspresso Forum.

Really excited.

Have a good day, guys.

Cheers.

Hoping we can get more feedback on the using of ICEspresso Chat Framework from web developers.

Please keep watching the URL: http://www.icespresso.net.