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Producing Flash Projector Files

This tutorial will show you how to produce Flash content for users to run on their desktop instead of through a browser. This would output a single Flash executable file that users can run simply by double-clicking on the exe file without needing to install the Flash standalone player or anything else.

Instead outputing an SWF as we would if we were putting Flash on a webpage, we would output an executable file known as a Projector File.

Linked here is an FLA Flash source fie with content that looks like ...

that we will be using in our example. If you want to follow along, download the FLA by right-clicking on the above link.

1. Open the FLA file in Flash and select menu File -> Publish Settings.

2. In the Formats tab of the Publisher Settings dialog, checkmark Window Projector.

3. When you click the Publish button, it should produce an executable file that your users can run on their Windows machine. If you want the user to run the Flash content on a Macintosh, you would checkmark the Macintosh Projector output instead in the Publisher Settings dialog.

Compiled into the projector file are the bytes of the Flash standalone player so the the user can play the Flash content even if they don't have the Flash player on their machine.

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