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Start an animation by inserting the USB key

ultimanda Posted messages 8 Status Member -  
Joy_^ Posted messages 55 Status Member -
Hello everyone
I created a Flash animation consisting of 4 different swf files: intro, catalog 1; 2 and 3
I want to put them on a USB drive
it would be great, when inserting the drive into the computer, if the animation could start automatically from the intro, but I don’t know how to do that at all
could you help me please ?
thank you
Configuration: Windows XP Internet Explorer 7.0

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    Xil Posted messages 351 Status Member 257
     
    Hello,

    We call this an "Autorun". The autorun on USB is still obviously mediocre, knowing that for some USB drives you have to modify a Windows registry key to enable autorun.

    You will find more information here:

    https://forum.framasoft.org/viewtopic.php?t=8793

    and here:

    https://www.google.be/search?q=autorun+usb&sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1B3GGGL_frBE231BE231&gws_rd=ssl

    And a small software that allows applying autorun on a key, and what is needed to easily modify the registry key:

    https://www.01net.com/telecharger/windows/Utilitaire/systeme/fiches/31629.html
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    1. ultimanda Posted messages 8 Status Member
       
      Thank you very much for the info Xil

      I know about autorun, what concerns me is the file organization, the famous animation must be embedded in several USB keys that will be given as gifts to clients of a company, having no autorun isn’t too problematic, it’s more the fact of having 4 swf folders and 4 html folders, if there were only one icon to click it would still be better :)
      Thanks again for answering and see you soon
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      1. Xil Posted messages 351 Status Member 257 > ultimanda Posted messages 8 Status Member
         
        In that case, nothing prevents you from doing either a welcome animation or an index.html page, which would be placed at the root of the keys.

        This page/animation could contain links to the others, which means there would be only one entry point for your animations/html pages.
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  2. Joy_^ Posted messages 55 Status Member 110
     
    Hello,

    since it’s for USB sticks, I recommend exporting your flash as an exe. Because if the user doesn’t have Flash Player installed on their machine, the swf won’t launch.

    then why not put everything into a single Flash animation, since it’s intended to be viewed directly, there are no loading issues for the animation, so you can group it all into one animation, even if in the end it would be a very long animation to load online, but here it’s offline, so no problem.

    There you go :)
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