Here's a problem to make your hair curl

[rick@mcorp webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

I have a load of assets in the form of .exe files from my customer, what they want is to be able to press a button in the normal manner and open one of these .exe files - the .exe files are actually Flash movies but I don't have the source files etc.
So far so good, the trouble is that the Flash movies don't have a close button on them so there's no way of shutting them down once opened.

The app is a kiosk so I can't use the Esc key or anything similar.

To make matters more interesting the App has a 'timeout' loop which is to check for user activity & if say 3 minutes has passed it closes the Flash exe.

Ideally I'd want to play the exe 'within' director & have a 'close' button in the Director App as a kind of border to the Flash exe.
Are there any xtras out there which might do something like this?

Clear as mud?

Excellent.


Thanks for your time!
Rich

[Word of Mouth Productions]

Try the masterApp xtra. It lets you do a lot of controlling of apps,
windows, registry, etc.

BuddyAPI might also do what you need.


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"rick@mcorp" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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>
> I have a load of assets in the form of .exe files from my customer, what

they want is to be able to press a button in the normal manner and open one
of these .exe files - the .exe files are actually Flash movies but I don't
have the source files etc.

> So far so good, the trouble is that the Flash movies don't have a close

button on them so there's no way of shutting them down once opened.

>
> The app is a kiosk so I can't use the Esc key or anything similar.
>
> To make matters more interesting the App has a 'timeout' loop which is to

check for user activity & if say 3 minutes has passed it closes the Flash
exe.

>
> Ideally I'd want to play the exe 'within' director & have a 'close' button

in the Director App as a kind of border to the Flash exe.

> Are there any xtras out there which might do something like this?
>
> Clear as mud?
>
> Excellent.
>
>
> Thanks for your time!
> Rich
>
>

[johnAq webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

Search the net for a utility tht can extract a .swf from a Flash .exe - I know there are some.

If the .exe was created with a Flash version compatible with your Director version then you should be able to simply import it as usual

hth

johnAq