hope someone can spare a brain cell or two for a quandry of mine. i just got flash mx, and love it, i though a good starting point project would be to create a new resume in flash. ive managed to scrape through with the help of the search files on kirupa (thanks) and am almost ready to send my new resume out (after a few sound fx’s and a bit more blub have been added) but to test the file out, i sent it to my brother, who couldn’t open it as he didn’t have flash player installed on his laptop, so, my problem is, whats the best/simplest way to allow the recipient to read the flash .SWF file, assuming they don’t have flash player installed?
i thought maybe putting the flash file in a folder, with a notepad document with the flash players download URL in might solve the problem, although it doesn’t seem a very eligant solution, can i perhaps somehow attach a file that detects weather the recipient has flash player installed, and if not offers to initiate a download?
ive attached the resume for any constructive criticism as well (i know its ultra simple, but ive only had flash for a week)
theres a tutorial on how to detect the flash plugin in the tutorials section of kirupa thers also the macromedia deployment kit which is used in dreamweaver if you use dreamweaver to edit your html files
try doin a search for flash detection you will get tons of results good luck
The tutorials regarding the Flash detection scripts were interesting, but they appeared to require a HTML page leading in to the flash animation, so that an HTML script could be inserted at that point, although in my case, there is no introductory page to the .SWF file. i’ll try monkeying around with it in dreamweaver to see if i can convert the file into a more readerble format. i think i was after an actionscript within flash that would insert the flash player check/request function into the finished code of the movie (you can tell i dont know my arse from my elbow)
perhaps converting the resume into an HTML web page would do it?
formats formats, everywhere, and not the wisdom to choose,
i suppose the best format would be the one most people could view, probably html, but it also need to be able to cope with interactivity, just some simple navigation, and a few little animation bits. heres the format shortlist so far.
WORD: i didn’t think word docs could handle animations and interactivity, so, if im right, this might be inappropriate.
HTML: seems a good bet, IF a whole .swf interactive movie animation thing can be converted into html. i could use a little advice on converting a .swf file into a .html file, but ill check the tutorials.
PDF: hmm, never really used pdf files before, i got the impression they were glorified word docs, but as i said, i dont really understand then, other than letting my acrobat reader open them for me, if this format could handle my project i could use some advice on converting a .swf file into a .pdf file
