Preload Window

[MarcCama]

Hi all,

I have a flash presentation that is too large. I needed to convert it to an executable file, and for this I used the Increditools Flash EXE Builder 1.0, to distribute it in a CD. The problem is that the executable file load was too long, and the User think that nothing is happening.

To avoid this I need to show a window indicating that the file is being loaded, such as a preloader. Anyone know if exist any program that I can write in the CD that show a window with a message, run the presentation, and being shown until the presentation start?

Thanks, MarcCama

 

[BadBigBen]

Since you are deploying this using a CD, why not use a CD MENU creator that will either launch the EXE, or a portable version of a Flash Player that will then play the flash video...

e.g.

CIS Smart CD-Menu Creator

http://www.snapfiles.com/get/cissmartcdmenu.html

Ben
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[MarcCama]

Hi BadBigBen,

Thanks for your reply. My problem is that the big presentation is call from another Flash presentation when the user click a button. The principal Flash file was created by Demo Builder software, and, as I don't have access to the Flash source, I can not change it.

I would appreciate if you had another idea.

Regards, MarcCama

 

[linney]

Can you use a Readme file on the CD?

Can you make use of Autoruns if they haven't been disabled on the machine by Windows Updates?

172078 - HOWTO: Enable Autorun for Applications Distributed on CD- ROM

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;172078&FR=1&PA=1&SD=HSCH

Would a packaging program like Iexpress give some indication of work happening?

Have you ever looked at Iexpress.exe in the System32 folder?
iexpress.exe (Creates a self-extracting / self-installing package)

http://weblogs.asp.net/rmclaws/archive/2003/08/27/25633.aspx

 

[MarcCama]

Hi Linney,

Thanks or your reply.

For understand how the CD should work, I'll give a walkthrough of this process.

1) When the User put the CD in the drive, an "autorun.inf" file run, automatically, the first Flash presentation that is small;
2) At the end of the first presentation have a button which, when clicked, calls the second Flash presentation that is too big and slow to load, inducing the user to think that the CD is not working.

My problem is that, for technical reasons, the two presentations were generated for executable files. That is, in the first Flash presentation can only run other that is in EXE format. For this reason is that I need some kind of preloader for EXE files.

Do you have any other idea?

Regards, MarcCama

 

[BadBigBen]

Why not create a THIRD flash file, that gets loaded when the FIRST is finished, which would then flash a Picture that states: "Please wait, LOADING..."; which then begins to load the SECOND flash...

Ben
"If it works don't fix it! If it doesn't use a sledgehammer..."
How to ask a question, when posting them to a professional forum.
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