Flash - projectors / stand-alone exe files

[dannyboy83]

Hello,

I'm working on a project at present, using Flash. I've created 6 animations, which will be used as a teaser/marketing campaign for computer users in my organisation. Work for a local council and the PCs are fairly locked down - no installs, downloads, etc.

The idea is that the animation will play as soon as users log into their system.

I've had a discussion with our IT techies and we were looking at how to deliver this. I can't guarentee all users have Flash player installed - the only way I can play it is to run it in internet explorer.

Anyway, I suggested exporting the flash SWF to a standalone flash projector EXE file. In theory, this will eliminate the need to have flash player installed and will be easy for the user to close.

Anyone got any similar experience of using Flash exe files or similar?

My plan B was to run an instance of IE in kiosk mode, make up an HTML file with the Flash SWF embedded, and incorporate a close button.

muchos gracias.

[Funkstar]

I seem to remember that even wrapped up in an .exe, flash animations still need to have Flash installed to run.

[TiG]

I'm fairly certain that isn't the case Funkstar. Its a long time since i did any flash work but i'm fairly certain i wrote the trafficmaster flash map to work without flash as an executable.

However i would be very wary about distributing content like this as "advertising" to a network of users especially in council offices?.

What you trying to advertise?
TiG

[Funkstar]

Could be, it's a long time since i had to deal with this (about 6 years). I just remember that the turning a flash animation into an exe didn't add much of an over head. At least, it was a hell of a lot less than the flash libraries in the plugin you download

[TiG]

Ahh well i think the TM flash movie went from 400k to 6 meg heh.

Think it must be what you write into it

TiG

[Funkstar]

lol yeah, could be right there