Flash - 2 movies

[GW44]

Both the progress prereq and the final progress dialog have flashframe1.

I presume one should be able to asign Movie_1 to the first, and Movie_2 to the final dialog.

Cannot figure out how to assign the corresponding Movie to each of these dialogs.

Changing FlashFrame's ID to _1 and _2 and Adding Movie_1 & _2 to the support files OK but the rest???

GW44

[MichaelNesmith]

No, the flash containers always show one movie - movie.swf. You may use scripting to update the file movie.swf (and even download a fresh one from the Internet) before showing the relevant progress dialog.

[GW44]

I thought each FlashFrame IS a container for the movie. Am I wrong there?

In our case as the builds are a Compressed .EXE so there is no pulling a movie(s) from the net.

Seeing one can have FlashFrame1 on the prereqprogress and FlashFrame2 in the install progress Dialog, there should be a method to assign a specific movie to the FlashFrame. Add a line to the properties box for this. One can set almost anything else from the properties box so why not the movie id?

Probaly this is something missing in InstallAware. So if it is consider this a feature request.

If I'm wrong in my assumptions how Flash works with the dialogs please explain. It almost looks like the pointer to movie.swf is hard coded into the InstallAware program.

GW44

[MichaelNesmith]

Exactly - the movie.swf file is hard coded into the flash viewer. It will look for that exact file. You can add multiple movies to $SUPPORTDIR$ and rename the one you want to show to movie.swf before showing the dialog.

[GW44]

Why not add a line to the properties box for this. One can set almost anything else from the properties box so why not the movie id?

Realize this dictates an addition to source code from InstallAware but consider it a feature request.

Having the same movie for prereq and final install progress does not make sence, not to us anyway.

We specify the movie ID in various scripts (not Installaware's though) so unless we are missing something there is nothing in flash that dictates that the .swf file should benamed movie. ABC.swf and XYZ.swf works fine in the code we write and use.

GW44

[MichaelNesmith]

Absolutely! This is a great suggestion and I have already passed it on for you. I was just providing a workaround that you should be able to use, reliably, in the meantime.

[megapode]

Hi there,

I have tried this approach - using file move/copy as the way to rename the file - but I can not get it to work.

I am using IA7 studio Admin - please can someone advise the best way to display a different flash movie on each installer screen?

Many thanks.