Running flash content from the CD...

[Virtualguide]

Hi all,

I have serious problem and need it to solve as far as possible. Please, help if somebody knows how to...

I have completed html page with flash content and virtual tour burned for CD. Everything is OK, however after burning on CD and testing it the flash would not run if You do not allow it by right mouse button clicking on the flash content, then "Settings..." then "advanced", then macromedia web page loads ->> "Global Security Settings Panel" and then in "edit locations..." I have to choose "add location" - my CD-ROM drive.

1. I do not believe that standard user can master such operation...
2. Not everybody knows english
3. Not everybody is connected to internet.

Do You know some solution for my problem?
Please help...

Thanks a lot,

Igor

[phberlin]

In the Flash Player Documentation, there is a n extra site that is about offline presentation. It is located here: [your FPP-location]/tutorials/offline.html
(Or just open index.html (starting point of the tutorials) and choose the entry "offline presentation".

Maybe the description there can help you solve your problem?

Regards, Ph.

[Yannis]

Hi Ph,

I m really surprise, I never get this trouble.
I knew the problem with the flash player from immervision. But never get it with Flash Panorama.
The only problem I discover, it fo the Mac environnement

[phberlin]

Hey Yannis,

first I did not understand what you were trying to say with your post ;) , but then I saw your other thread (http://flashpanoramas.com/forum/showthread.php?t=416) about it. Sorry, since I don't have a Mac, I can't help you with that. But maybe someone else can :)

Regards, Ph.

[FredHal]

Hello Igor,

I see that on 09-27-2007 you posted your question on "Running Flash content from the CD". I am developing a similar project and have the same question as you posted, what was the solution to your problem?

Regards, Fred

[DMCDigital]

I just did this for a client....Running from a CD seems to work fine on a PC for me...I had included a little autorun script so it just starts right up.

How ever on my MAC it wont run...I have to do that security dance and say its ok blah blah.


Still have not found a way to protect my files on CD either...oh well.....I guess if someone wants it bad enough they can get it !

Dennis

[Virtualguide]

Hi Fred,

Do You really know what was my solution?
I learned to use FPP (I did not said that my pano was made by Immervision PP) :D

From the moment I learned FPP and used it for my pano presentations I produced several CD`s and among hundreds of users nobody had a problem...

However, one thing U must follow to be successful:
U must use swfobject method and not flashvars to embed flash into html !!!

(I am not sure whether my problem with Immervision FPP was due to flashvars method, or something other I did not test it more as I finished using it after understood FPP :) )

[Virtualguide]

I just did this for a client....Running from a CD seems to work fine on a PC for me...I had included a little autorun script so it just starts right up.

How ever on my MAC it wont run...I have to do that security dance and say its ok blah blah.
What has to do autorun script with flash "global security settings" ? I do not understand You. Autorun works only 4 WIN systems, if You need to make "security dance" on Your Mac and not on PC, I think U allowed to run flash from Your PC locally before, but other users can have a problem...


Still have not found a way to protect my files on CD either...oh well.....I guess if someone wants it bad enough they can get it !

Dennis

Yes, it is important thing for us all - how to encrypt xml code simply and to be readable for flash player. Is somebody here at forum able to work this out? I think all of us would have pay something for such a possibility.
Regards,
Igor

[nikopol]

to run fpp from a cd you need an executable including flashplayer and support some parameters. i have created a simple app to open fpp in fullscreen without need of a flash enabled browser. it can be found here (http://www.kureselfotograf.com/open/open.rar). it is a vb6 app and it needs MSVBVM60.DLL to work. most windows installed computers have it, if yours not just google the filename.

to protect the files of your project you can simply create a simple visual basic app with flash ocx included and all the project files added as resources to it. when the app is loaded it can extract and copy the files to a temporary folder and when the user closes, securely deletes the files.

this kind of application will need a little work to be safe and bug-free. but it won't be so difficult to understand to system and get the files, for someone who really wants it. but i think it's not worth the effort and at least better than giving him all the files inside a golden plate :)