Export MenuBuilder file to .exe format

Question

Hello,
I am fairly new to Captivate and I tried MenuBuilder for the
first time this week.
I have 2 elements in the menu + 2 clickable zones over logos
in the menu page. 2 links go to Captivate project A and 2 links go
to Captivate project B.
I am able to export the menu project but when I try to play
the .exe file on someone else's computer, I see the menu page but
the links all give me the same error message. A small message box
appears on screen with the letter F in it, nothing else, and the
animated presentation does not start.
I am very puzzled. I tried to check and uncheck the box to
save the .htm and .swf files, I republished the projects A and B
from the .cp files and it's still not working «outside»
my computer...
What am I forgetting?? I need to place these 2 projects on a
CD and I want to have a menu, Am I doing the right thing, is there
another way to do this?
Thanks is advance!
-- Lyne

Answer 1

Welcome to our community, Lyne
The rather generic "F" message indicates you have created a
EXE from MenuBuilder that is looking for a SWF/HTM file pair for
Captivate and the files aren't found. Or, probably more accurately,
the files aren't found where the MenuBuilder output is
Expecting them.
MenuBuilder is notorious for creating absolute paths to
files. To avoid this, I take the following steps in MenuBuilder.
When you link to a file, never browse to it. Instead, just
manually type the file name. If you do browse to it, take the
additional step of removing the preceding path information so that
all that's left behind is the file name you are linking to. Then
make sure you place a check mark in the check box labeled "Save
file with project".
Once you do this, you have then created a relative link. With
a relative link, the file is simply expected to be found in the
relative path. Often, the same folder as the MenuBuilder EXE
calling the file.
Hopefully this was helpful... Rick