Flash Player error message when starting .exe

Question

I have published a quiz on our local intranet in .exe format.
It runs fine and actually submits results (unlike the .swf files)
via Outlook. I created the quiz on a Windows XP machine running
Captivate 2.
The only problem I am finding is with certain machines, when
they go to run the quiz, they get a FlashPlayer error message that
says : "Cannot create file C:\DOCUME~1\iddem\LOCALS~1\Temp\Personal
Care final.swf" . On other machines, I don't see the message at
all.
If they click OK, it runs the quiz fine. My question is
whether there is a setting in Captivate I can change to avoid
having users see this message.
Thanks for any help you can provide -
Anne Goldenberger

Answer 1

I don't know for sure, but believe an .exe is (supposed to
be) the Flash
Player and the .swf file essentially 'zipped' up into an
.exe. So when
you open the .exe, it auto-extracts to the user's temp folder
and the
swf is told to play using the bundled Flash player.
HOWEVER, recent posts indicate at least some of that is not
true, or not
working as it should, in that if a user doesn't have the
Flash player
installed, the .exe won't work (swf doesn't play). So perhaps
the issue,
assuming my previous assumption is true, is the .exe is
supposed to make
the Flash player available but is not, or is directing the
swf to use
the installed player instead...which fails if the player is
not
installed....
SO, point being if that's all true, that's why the user's
temp folder
may be coming into play - the .exe is trying to extract to
that
location. Is the folder path different for each user -
showing their
username in the temp folder location?
Why the error is occurring or how to fix it, I'm not sure.
Emptying the
user's temp folder sounds valid. Maybe it's just too 'full'
and hitting
some quota limit? Or perhaps the temp folders have some sort
of
permissions restriction (which would be silly)?
At least the file works despite the error...
Erik
Anne L Goldenberger wrote:
> Thanks for your response Larry. What really seems
strange to me is that the
> error message comes from Flash - which seems really odd
since what I published
> was an .exe file - NOT a .swf file. When the .exe runs,
maybe it is trying to
> 'create' a .swf file???
>
Erik Lord
http://www.capemedia.net
Adobe Community Expert - Authorware
http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/
http://www.awaretips.net -
samples, tips, products, faqs, and links!
*Search the A'ware newsgroup archives*
http://groups.google.com/group/macromedia.authorware