Projector Files

[scottyjohn]

Hi all,
I hope some of you Guru like individuals can clear this up for me.
When a user opens a flash executable and plays a presentation, does the exe install any kind of flash player on the system in question. And if so would a small self closing projector at the beginning of an HTML presentation leave a player installed, capable of ensuring that the HTML presentation can include Flash content without the need to download the Flash player from the web?

Hope im makin this clear if not let me know
Hope you can help!
Hope this helps
John

http://www.eagle-i.co.uk

 

[oldnewbie]

Found on Macromedia's site:

Use the standalone Shockwave Flash Players to create projectors or to play movies outside a browser or ActiveX application. Use a projector when you want to distribute movies to user who don't have Flash or properly configured browsers, or for distributing movies on floppy disks or CD-ROMs. There are no distribution costs or limitations on distributing projectors created with the StandAlone players.

My understanding of this, is that it's a self contained player, and that it would only play that file, and not any other .swf, if the normal player wasn't installed. Can't really be sure since I do have the player installed!

Regards,

 

[scottyjohn]

Cheers Old,
I might have to do a test on a bare system just to find out.
While Ive got you, I want to put a link on an intro page (HTML with Flash) which when clicked will run an exe file on the same CDROm, this whole thing, as you probably know from your previous times you've helped me is a CD ROM which will contain video files but I want a link to install the Microsoft codecs onto the users machine, I think its the only way to be sure they can view them.

Cheers mate,
Where are you based old?
Hope this helps
John

http://www.eagle-i.co.uk

 

[oldnewbie]

I presume that if you just work out a regular link (getURL), and that the user is connected at the time (if he's not he'll probably be warned to connect!), it will lead him to a possible download of codecs... This would still probably go through security warnings, before anything is actually downloaded on this user's machine.

Based in Montréal, Québec.

Regards,