[Qtwebengine] Flash in 5.6 beta

[Koehne Kai]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: QtWebEngine [mailto:qtwebengine-bounces at qt-project.org] On Behalf
> Of patrick s
> Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2015 2:10 PM
> To: qtwebengine at qt-project.org
> Subject: [Qtwebengine] Flash in 5.6 beta
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> i'm trying to get flash running with the 5.6 beta packages. It seems to work fine
> on Linux, but on Windows I can't get it to work (msvc2013_64, packages 198
> and 241).
> 
> When i do the check on https://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player.html it tells me
> that flash is installed, but not enabled (with pluginsEnabled set to true). It is
> working in chrome.
> 
> Do i have to do anything else to get it running (use a specific flash version or put
> the plugin in a specific location)? Or could there be 64/32bit issues?

Right now we only try to load Flash from the 'standard' location if it's a 32 bit build:

C:/Windows/SysWOW64/Macromed/Flash

I'm not sure whether there's a general problem with 64 bit , or whether we just
haven't tested this one yet.

> Unfortunately there is no msvc2013_32 package (yet?) to test this.

Don't worry, there will be 32 bit packages for the Beta, too.

Regards

Kai

> Thanks in advance,
> Patrick