help me!

[kala]

My project has become as much big as 317MB built using WEB/Email and now that when the application is getting started, it is taking a **** lot more time for unzipping and then to start.
Although i cannot reduce the size of the project, is there a way that i use a startup movie in the mean time untill the unzipping is finished with a progress bar. I tried the startup movie option in the Project pane, but it starts only after uncompressing, but i want even before that.


Please if any one knows, help me with a sample project........

[Lorne]

317 MB isn't really a web/email size (not in the context of a self-extracting application, anyway).

You have three options:

• Build it to a CD
• Build it to a hard drive folder, and use Setup Factory to make an installer for it. (Will your users really want to wait for it to unpack every time it runs?) With Setup Factory you could show a short movie in the user's default viewer at the start (which would probably only make sense if you're doing a silent install), or perhaps have it play during the installation, although really if you're installing it as an application -- just like other applications -- a movie isn't necessary.
• Build two nested autoplay applications -- one "launcher" app that just shows the movie while the other one unpacks; make the launcher app contain the main app as its payload. This will increase your web/email executable further, but at 317MB it's already pretty ginormous.