Get Macromedia Flash version

Author: Joel (talk, contrib)

The Script

; Let's read the version of Macromedia Flash AvtiveX version
OutFile "FlashVer.exe"
Name "Detect Macromedia Flash Player version"
Caption "Detect Macromedia Flash Player version"
XPStyle "on"
 
Function "GetFlashVER"
Exch $0
GetDllVersion "$SYSDIR\Macromed\Flash\$0" $R0 $R1
IntOp $R2 $R0 / 0x00010000
IntOp $R3 $R0 & 0x0000FFFF
IntOp $R4 $R1 / 0x00010000
IntOp $R5 $R1 & 0x0000FFFF
StrCmp $R2 "0" +3 0
StrCpy $1 "$R2.$R3.$R4.$R5"
Goto +2
StrCpy $1 "No file version"
Exch $1
FunctionEnd
 
Function ".onInit"
Push "flash.ocx"
Call "GetFlashVER"
Pop $1
MessageBox MB_OK|MB_ICONINFORMATION "File: $0 $\r$\nVersion: $1"
Quit
FunctionEnd
 
Section "-boo"
;
SectionEnd

Note

As of version 9 Adobe seems to have renamed the OCX to "flash9d.ocx". See alternate version of GetFlashVer Get_Macromedia_Flash_version_2 for a different method which may be a little more robust.