useful
Posted 12 months ago
This is a way of accessing information about the end user. You can do anything with the information this neat little function returns.
Examples of info that it provides are:- OS - Returns the operating system - Language - Returns the language in plain text - Day - Returns the day as a word - Hours - Returns the amount of hours (24h clock) - TimeOffset - Returns the Offset as configured on the user's computer - Date - Returns the Day number (e.g. 1-31) - DateSuffix - Note: This should be used after Date and will return th, st, rd or nd as appropriate - Mins - This is the number of minutes - Month - This is the month *name* - MonthNum - This is the month *number* (1-12) - Year - This is the 4-digit year number - ResolutionX - This is the width of the screen in pixels - ResolutionY - This is the height of the screen in pixels - DotsPerInch - This is the DPI of the user's screen - PixelAspect - This is the Pixel Aspect Ratio of the user's screen
You can simply include the file (either via AS or copy and pasting the code) and use this function: getStats(“OS”
Ideal for cross-compatibility, browser research (send the data back to the server?), integration and simply some welcome text.
Optional addition
To minimize file size, the file is not set up to work with all languages by default, you will need to add them. This is generally not necessary. The next bit will explain how you add them.
There is literally an if statement that you can use as a template, you just need to add them on if you need them. Don’t add them if you don’t need to because they add to the file size (which is minimal at the moment).Language Tag Supported Countries and Tags English en United States = US, United Kingdom = UK French fr Korean ko Japanese ja Swedish sv German de Spanish es Italian it Simplified Chinese zh PRC (Simplified Chinese) = CN Traditional Chinese zh Taiwan (Traditional Chinese) = TW Portuguese pt Polish pl Hungarian hu Czech cs Turkish tr Finnish fi Danish da Norwegian no Dutch nl Russian ru Other/Unknown xuPosted about 1 year ago
Nice! Can you make this file detect the browser and/or internet connection speed? That would be really useful.
Posted 12 months ago
Resolution: 1360×768 WideScreen Baby YEAH !!!
if (resolution = 1360x16{ trace("That is Unbelievable"); } else{ trace("Upgrade Please.") }
Just Kidding, I just dropped some money on upgrading my broken monitor and I decided to go wide, plus it was on sale! I really like it though, and I thought it was funny that this thing could actually tell
Posted 12 months ago
OOPS It cut me off, its supposed to be ‘768 )’, and then I meant to say that this is quite useful in checking if your user can correctly view your site, and would be a good feature. If it didn’t meet your standards it would be easy to set up a variable to where it checks, you dont meet, and a pop up comes up saying ‘Best Viewed At: .....’ . I may soon buy this, good thinking!
Posted 12 months ago
Windows Vista and your computer is set up in the language Unknown language
with a GMT offset of -60 
Nice file anyway
Posted 12 months ago
Oh. Can you send a screenshot. You may be working in a beta release of flash that doesn’t work with it. And yes, I forgot to mention how to add more languages to the file. At the moment it comes prebuilt with a few of the most common.
I added it to the description
There is literally an if statement that you can use as a template, you just need to add them on if you need them. Don’t add them if you don’t need to because they add to the file size (which is minimal at the moment)
@Everyone, thanks 
Hi,
does this come with the source AS as I need to collect this information and use it to adjust my flash file settings and layout.. (like an autosizer and autorotater if the user selects they have their monitor in portrait view.)
Please get back soon.
thanks
Posted 10 months ago
Cool file! But when I publish the swf movie, only Safari can read the descriptive text and the stats. Firefox, Internet Explorer will not show all the text. Any ideas? Thanks so much for a great utility!
Posted 8 months ago
That’s strange. I’ve seen no problems with it at all. Can you send me a screenshot or something? I’ve tested it in all 3 main browsers. I know this sounds silly but are you sure you have Flash installed?
Posted 7 months ago