you could try setting the files attributes to hidden.
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i have created a flash utility application
which it can read the values from the textfile.
also i create a button which open a textfile(notepad)by fscommand thru batch file.
i publish the .fla in to .exe
now, the application contains three files.
.exe file,
.txt file,(values are here)
.bat file,
now, my aim is to make the three files into single file that means i need to see only the .exe file alone.
but the textfile and the batch file should play on the background the others cannot able to see that file externally on the folder.
important thing is it can able to run on any windows machine.
with regards,
moulee
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You could set it to hidden, but that will not work in all cases as some people may have the system setup to show hidden files.
I'm not sure what a totally full proof way would be without having the file reside on another machine like a server or something. Although you could somehow encrypt the file and have the flash file load and decode it?
Regards,
Peter Witham
Yes if u make your own custom VB app to embed your swf into, then you can take advantage of VB functionality. You can either put the password pprompt in VB when the app is run, or use a flash gui in conjunction with VB.
Communication between flash and VB is done using fscommands. Communication between VB and flash can be done using the flash object api (as from javascript).
Hope that helps.
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by: PeterWithamPosted on 2003-02-07 at 07:52:39ID: 7903806
Hi,
Well one way would be to use a 3rd party app like Flashjestor's Jugglor. The way it would work is that you would include all three of the files in a kind of compressed file, and what happens is when you click on the file to play it Jugglor decompresses the content to the users temp folder. Then removes them upon completion.
Now it is not fool proof in that whilst it is running people could hunt down the files in their temp folder, but as with everything, those that are determined enough will always find a way around any system.
Just a thought anyway, check out www.flashjester.com for more details. There are some other excellent products like swf studio and now screenweavermx, but I have not tried them to comment on how or even if they compress all files in to one runtime .exe.
Regards,
Peter Witham