install_flash_player_active_x.exe

[wzeller]

Hello,
when I build a "Standalone" SWFKit.exe automaticly in the /Application directory the "install_flash_player_active_x.exe" is copied.

I use "Pack recources = FALSE".

Question:
When I copy the files to CD for distribution, do I have to include the
"install_flash_player_active_x.exe" on the CD ?

Thank you in advance,
Walter

[SWFKit]

Yes, you must also include it, which is used to run your program if the destination computer has no flash player installed.

[wzeller]

Thank you for your answer.

I would have 2 more Questions:

1./
Is there a possibility to have some files "Pack Recourses" and some files "NON Pack recources" with the SWFKit.exe?

Or is just Packed or NON Packed possibel?

2./
When "Pack recources = FALSE" will the SWFKit.exe faster launche from CD as with "Pack recources = TRUE", especially when packing large files like *flv?

Thank you in asvance.
Walter Zeller

[SWFKit]

1. Yes, the files in the "resources" can either be packed or not packed. However, you can manually copy other files into the same folder as the output EXE file. In that case, you will have to use absolute path names to load the files that are not packed. Say your main movie in the "resources" is "main.swf", which will be packed, and you need to load a swf file "other.swf" in the same folder as the output EXE file, which will not be packed, you must use the following actionscript code in the "main.flv":

import SWFKit.*;
var baseDir = getAppDir() + "\\"; 
loadMovie(baseDir + "other.swf", other_mc);

2. If the resource files are packed, they will be extracted into a temporary folder when the output exe file is launched. Whereas the output exe file will load the resource files directly without extracting them if they are not packed. This is the reason why "not packing resources" exe files launch faster. Since swfkit can encrypt most of resource files, we recommend that you do not pack resource files, especially when you are making a CD/DVD. Packing resource files is necessary when you are building a single EXE file.