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I have an installer that is using flash billboards on its dialogs. these files consist of a swf file, a number of image files, and an xml file that references everything. If we run this installer on a system that has downloaded flash support from the internet, everything displays correctly. If we attempt to run this install on a totally clean system, however, the internal flash support does not seem to be able to display it. Are these multi-part files supported, and if not, what are the limits in the program. We like the idea of having separate components as it makes it easier to adjust the appearance without having to go back to the art department.

Did you add all the files to the creatives. No hardcoded paths in any of the files?

I use Flash quite a bit in my installs but never any that requires any other files.

When I use html I add everything to the creatives part of IA and have no paths to any dependant files, just the names and all works fine. Guessing it might be the same with flash dependancies.

If not you may want to just use the HTML control and run the flash file from that again with know paths, just file names.

Everything is included in the list of creatives, and while the XML file references a number of jpg files there are no paths associated with them, just their names.

Everything works fine on most of our systems. It wasn't until we tested on a totally clean VMWare that the problem first showed up. Now we can reproduce the problems in test on some cleaned up systems.

IA adds the flash.ocx to your project which is version 7

On windows XP version 5 was shipped I belive and IA only puts flash on the machine if it isn't already there.

It's on the forum somewhere couldn't find the post again

Still wonder if using the HTML control instead of the Flash Control would solve the problem - running the flash from the index.htm file.

SteveDude wrote:Still wonder if using the HTML control instead of the Flash Control would solve the problem - running the flash from the index.htm file.

I just tried a simple HTML page with an embedded flash, and I can not get it to work for some reason. Loading the page in a browser works just fine so I think my HTML abilities are to blame. what is the syntax that you use to embed flash into the HTML page?

Try this code:

I just tried the following as the contents of an index.htm file



Both the gif and the flash file are the ones in the InstallAware interop templates folder.
The text, flash file and image all appear in a browser, but not in the installer. The text and image also appear when I include this file into an install, but the flash animation is nowhere to be found.