auto install Flash Player

[Brian]

Can anyone help me with this, please?

I have produced a CD ROM containing .swf files which requires the Flash player plugin.

Can I create an auto detect and auto install for the Flash player, which I have included on the CD ROM, if the player is not already installed on the users computer?

Thanks,

Brian Baxter

[farafiro]

I don't think that u can do that, Just make a note at the openning screen tell the user to install it.

Also try this, make a flash and a non flas text and put them in HTML document that opens at the start. Make the non flash text as a button to install it if the flash text ain't seen.

[DiDi]

If you are producing for CD and not for web, why not publish your movie as .exe instead of .swf? You won't have to worry if user have Flash plugin or not, and you can implement autorun for your movie too.

Just go to menu File > Publish Settings > and check Windows Projector. If you want to make your CD cross-platform you can publish both of them (.exe for Windows and .hqx for Macintosh).

I think this is the easiest way unless you have some special reason to keep it .swf or HTML.


Hope this helps...

[farafiro]

Hey DIDI, it's a cool Idea I know it. but the main problem that if u wanna load/play another exe file within the main exe, u can't. It will open in a new screen

[MarkLodato]

Try the Flash Deployment Kit:
http://www.macromedia.com/software/flash/download/deployment_kit

You can set settings such as what version the player has to be, whether there's a non-flash site, and also you can set a custom install source location (I believe.) Read through the help for it and it should do what you want.

I don't know if this is exactly what you're looking for, but it's a start :)

[DiDi]

If you publish your main movie as an .exe (or .hqx), and the rest of them as .swf and then call/load them into the main one, everything should work just fine.

Brian, if you still prefer HTML option check this link.

http://board.flashkit.com/board/showthread.php?threadid=336087

...should be exactly what you are looking for. And if you plan to do hybrid CD, and have questions about it, post back. I did similar project lately and gathered lots of information about the subject while struggling with it...:D

Hope this helps.

DD

[Abelius]

Shouldn't this code do it?

http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?p1_prod_version=shockwaveflash...

[Abelius]

Hmmm... right... still opens in another window... LOL

[DiDi]

Isn't Shochwave Player plugin for Director content on Web?

Brian was having doubts about Flash movie on CD...

Or maybe it does both jobs? I never quite got the difference, sometimes they call it Flash Player, sometimes Shockwave Flash...