FLASH: Self-contained CD app

[Russell E. Unger]

Hi Bill...


I may be missing your post a slight bit, but you could do what you are

requesting.  The concern I would express with it is that you would like a

"catalog" type site to run full screen--nothing is wrong with that, but Flash

will stretch and pull images when it goes from a specific size to a full screen

application.  My suggestion, if you must use some sort of a bitmapped image, is

to either do your application in Flash and place it within Director (so as to

control your screen size better) or to perhaps consider using Director

altogether.


You're pretty much on with what you're assuming, just don't forget about what

will happen to images...I keep thinking about a screensaver I made for my

girlfriend that stretched a baby picture of her and still gets me a bit of

grief... :)


Russ


Bill Killillay wrote:


> Randy,

>

> We are developing CD-ROM based catalogs and one of the requirements from my

> boss is that they are completely self contain to the CD-ROM with an auto run

> to launch it.  Right now we use some slick HTML/DHTML and we are basically

> building web sites onto these CD-ROM's, however I really like what I have

> seen from this list and what I have seen in my studies to date with Flash.

> My question to you is this, would your app be able to stand alone with out

> having to be installed to the local drive.  Secondly, would this allow us to

> create the catalog, and launch it something like the little watch app that

> somebody posted to this list a few days ago.  What I really liked about that

> EXE was that it was all self contained and ran in a full monitor view.

> Would your app or Flash make that possible or am I way off in left field

> with this.  Thanks for you help, and all the great comments that people make

> on this list.

>

> Bill

>

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From: ownershocker [dot] com [ownershocker [dot] com (mailto:ownershocker [dot] com)] On Behalf Of Randy

> Anthony

> Sent:   Tuesday, April 13, 1999 4:48 PM

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To: flashershocker [dot] com

> Subject:        Re: FLASH: PC Flash users with access to VB

>

> Hey rick,

>     That brings something interesting up, well at least in my mind. I'm an

> intermediate program in VB and a few other "Programming" languages.

> Something that would be really helpful in flash, or at least I think so,

> would be something like that, but with a few more features. So here's my

> proposal for anybody that would want something like this. I can make an app

> for the PC, that all you have to do is edit an INI file, and tell it

> either/or a website to open or an application path. The application alone

> would be around 3kb, but the runtimes for VB5 or 6 are around 1.3meg. So

> this would probably end up being limited to CD production. Again if anybody

> is interested in this, or has any more ideas for something like this, just

> pass the word on to me.

> Randy

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