flash player 6 and cd-rom exe files
I have created a series of Flash presentations for distribution on a CD-rom. We have been using this presentation to mail to clients, and only about 1% of the time found someone who did not have the correct Flash Player. (100% PC client base, no macs) I recently upgraded to Flash MX and am concerned that not very many people have the Flash 6 player installed on their PC.
When publishing from MX, I tried publishing with the Flash 5 player selection, but the .exe still requires Flash 6? Has anyone else had this problem?
I thought about making an HTML page that checks for the player, but many of our clients are in a corporate enviornment where they do not have internet access, or are not allowed to install anything.
Even if they don't have internet access, can you still run an html page off of a cd? If they don't have the player, I can't really send them out to macromedia.com because 75% won't have internet access.
Or even better would be if you could have the flash 6 player on the cd and the exe could run the player off the CD and not need to install or download anything!
If I can't find a better solution, my guess for a solution is to create a html page with the flash player detection kit that macromedia has... put the flash player installers on the cd. I will just need to work out a way for them to get back to the demo after the player has installed.
If anyone has some recommendations of possible solutions, I would appreciate it.
Thanks!
that's what I thought, but it doesn't work
That's what I always thought, but it doesnt' seem to work. The CD-Rom I created includes 4 exes. All of them were originally created using Flash 5. And work on all of our computers at work. Windows 98, 2000, and XP. Since upgrading to MX, I've updated 2 of the 4 exes. Those 2 exes don't run on a machine without flash 6 player. When you launch them, it just opens a white screen. I guess I should try installing the flash player on the machine I'm using to test and see if it works then. Maybe it's something else?
it's much slower than before
Yes you have my scenario correct Justmade. Thanks for your reply! It's still not working as well though.
Main.exe is published in FlashMX which launches A, B, or C.
A.exe is published in FlashMX
B.exe is published in FlashMX
C.exe is published in Flash5
I don't know if it matters, but the links from main.exe are not direct buttons... The button takes them to a framelabel then plays for 5 frames until it gets to a frame with the action listed below: (5 frames play loading B message)
fscommand("exec", "B.exe");
My CD-Rom is now set up so that main.exe is on the root and A, B, and C exe's are in a folder called fscommand.
The files seem to be launching using this action, but it is litterally taking 2 full minutes to open B.exe from the CD(10mb). When everything was published from Flash5, it took about 10 seconds for the same 10mb file to launch.
Does anyone have a solution to make the exe's launch quicker, or would you recommend I change them to SWF's that load in? The downfall is that they won't be able to have two movies open at once to compare A and B or C.
Thanks!