Attachments don't seem to work when running Articulate off a DVD

Hi Dragos, Are you using a Mac, oops noticed autoplay works so no.  Are they pdfs or other documents?  Sounds like a cool project!

Hi, Phil Nope, Windows - good idea about the Mac, too, I'll search for a Mac equivalent... They are PDFs indeed. It's been a cool project and it would be so cool if I didn't need to devise something supernatural to get around this problem....

Take care and speak to you soon,

Dragos :)

O know this may sound silly is your start.html file referencing the exe files for each project or the player.html, if its the html file it wont work, you need the projector (.exe) to circumvent the flash security to allow attachments to work

Oooooh, Phil, you have given me a lot of hope this evening! I am referencing the player.html files. I will try republishing each language version for CD and then reference them. Big half-day event tomorrow and guess what I'll be doing as soon as it finishes.... If it works, I'll give you 10 big hugs at next year's edition of the conference - and you'll surely be interested in coming as some more special people are coming all the way from ... somewhere to join the very cool bunch of participants. Quick informal announcement to follow soon Thanks a lot and will be in touch tomorrow,

Dragos

Definitely sttending, its sounding better all the time!

Whenever I see problems with PDFs opening locally it's because of the mark of the web. Take a look at your HTML published output. Does it contain a line like this?

<!-- saved from url=(0014)about:internet -->

You might also try publishing through the CDROM option. This produces a projector that will get around many of the browser limitations and oddities produced through Flash security limitations. You can point to this projector from your autorun file. Flash security weirdness can also cause the problem you're seeing. If you have an exit button, does that button work? 

Hi, everyone

Thanks to you, I am making progress. I published for CDROM and things are looking a bit better, though not perfect yet...

If I reference the .exe file from the HTML page which is my home menu for the three individual languages - example here of what it looks like http://www.nationalnetworkforinterpreting.ac.uk/tmp/wash/ -, it downloads the file in the web browser or it asks a few security questions before it actually fires it up (when it runs, the attachments do work; in player.html, the attachments are dead in the water).

Is there a way to create another .exe file which would play/launch the three separate Launch_Presentation.exe files automatically?

I am also thinking of the Mac users which I presume will be left out if I stick with .exe files... 

The HTML does have that line, Steve... 

saved from url=(0014)about:internet 

Would getting rid of it help in any way?

Many thanks as ever,

Dragos

You could create a menu in presenter, publish to cd and use that as your menu and set the exe to autorun, that would get rid of the securty messages

Mac users will be problem whatever you do, autorun will not work in OSX it may then be better to set up a directory for mac users and add a readme file that explains how to launch the program and where to find the attachments.  I am a Mac user and dont expect CDs/DVDs to autorun and will open the CD/DVD for attachments or for mac users just add a folder called documents

You can make your launch presentation  look like your current html page if you use Tony's free skin available from downloads in this forum

Steve may have a better solution

I think that if you edit that line out, the attachments will work. See this old article:

http://www.articulate.com/forums/articulate-presenter/5721-attachment-problems.html