Flash: EXE and HQX together

[Jean-Marie]

Hi,

For a presentation, I make a Flash animation which will be stored on a USB
key 128 Mo.
Then, these keys USB will be sent to customers (100).
My problem: is it possible to write on the key, the EXE file for PC and HQX
file for MAC, and run automatically the animation if the customer has a Mac
(I don't know autorun for MAc).
(No probleme for PC, I knwom make an autorun for PC)

Jean-MArie

[duhem@macdisk.com]

Jean-Marie wrote:

> Hi,
>
> For a presentation, I make a Flash animation which will be stored on

a USB

> key 128 Mo.
> Then, these keys USB will be sent to customers (100).
> My problem: is it possible to write on the key, the EXE file for PC

and HQX

> file for MAC, and run automatically the animation if the customer has

a Mac

> (I don't know autorun for MAc).
> (No probleme for PC, I knwom make an autorun for PC)
>
> Jean-MArie

1) There is no autorun anymore on the Mac from Mac OS X.

2) The HQX container must be unpacked to become executable. If you do
that on a FAT16/32 USB key, the resource fork will be lost. The easiest
solution would be to produce a hybrid CD-ROM with the HQX file in the
HFS (Macintosh) view and the EXE in the ISO (PC-Windows) view.

3) It would be possible to unpack the HQX to an AppleDouble file on a
FAT16/32 medium, but I don't know of any package doing that.

Pierre Duhem