Flash Intro BEFORE menu screen

[jsdsapphire]

Hi, need some info... I am trying to introduce a flash movie (.swf) file into a presentation that would basically be in Powerpoint. What I want to do, is to run the .swf at startup, instead of a splash screen or .avi and then proceed to the menu page where user can choose from the different options...(running the .ppt would be good of them!)Is this possible? If so, how, please bear with me, this may seem like childs play to some of you, but some of us are still learning too...!!

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[Adam]

What you could do is in project -> settings -> actions -> startup you would have a play multimedia action. This will open the flash file before the menu is opened (the menu may appear for a second before the .swf file gets executed).

On side note you may want to convert the flash multimedia into avi format then it would be very easy to have it play first.

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Adam Kapilik
Indigo Rose Corporation

[jsdsapphire]

Originally posted by Adam:
What you could do is in project -> settings -> actions -> startup you would have a play multimedia action. This will open the flash file before the menu is opened (the menu may appear for a second before the .swf file gets executed).

On side note you may want to convert the flash multimedia into avi format then it would be very easy to have it play first.



Thanks for this Adam, but it appears that when I try this it comes back with "there is no application associated with the given file name extension" even though i have the flash player.exe in the same folder. Am i over complicating this..? As for conversion into an AVI - would love to except I don't have the relevant software to do this, and suspect that the resulting file might be on the large size anyway...

[Mark]

Hi,

Try using an EXECUTE PROGRAM action that looks like this:

Filename: iexplore.exe
Arguments: -K %SrcDrv%\MyFlashFile.SWF

Basically what you will be doing is launching Explorer and passing it your Flash file, this will get your flash file to play in Internet Explorer. The "-K" will cause Internet Explorer to open in Kiosk mode, so you will not see any of the toolbars. This being true you might want to include a close button, or get your flash file to automatically close Explorer.

If this is not what you are looking at doing, perhaps you could compile your Flash file into an executable, and then use AutoPlay to launch that.

mark.

[jsdsapphire]

Originally posted by Mark:
Hi,

Try using an EXECUTE PROGRAM action that looks like this:

Filename: iexplore.exe
Arguments: -K %SrcDrv%\MyFlashFile.SWF

Basically what you will be doing is launching Explorer and passing it your Flash file, this will get your flash file to play in Internet Explorer. The "-K" will cause Internet Explorer to open in Kiosk mode, so you will not see any of the toolbars. This being true you might want to include a close button, or get your flash file to automatically close Explorer.

If this is not what you are looking at doing, perhaps you could compile your Flash file into an executable, and then use AutoPlay to launch that.

mark.


OK, I'm suitably impressed!! - the first option of having it run in IE5 Kiosk mode works a treat, only thing I now need to do is to include a close or "menu" button to get the user to progress - thanks guys, when in doubt, go to those who know....!!