Publishing to ONE Executable File

Hi Paul

Eeek, it's a long time since I used that as we, sadly, gave up on Storyline when 360 was priced so far out of our reach. Haven't touched it for a year/s. But I've just dug out an email I sent to someone asking about it in August 2015 in case that helps you...

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We use the "boxed up" version of our storyline files when we hand out supplementary resources to trainees that are attending live courses, mainly because we don't want them to have access to all the graphics files etc separately. The link below is to the software we use (our tech person, sadly no longer with the company, found it originally and set up the process ), it's a free download and seems ok.

 http://enigmaprotector.com/en/aboutvb.html

But it's an odd little utility and isn't very user friendly, so here's our crib sheet for the process:

1. Install and open Enigma Virtual Box

2. On ‘Enter Input File Name’ click ‘Browse’ and navigate to the output exe file of the e-resources you would like to box up. i.e. Launch_Story.exe

3. on ‘Enter Output File Name’ click ‘Browse’ and navigate to the directory where you would like the boxed up version to be saved and enter the desired filename

4. Click the ‘Add’ button (bottom left)

5. Click the ‘Add folder recursive’ and navigate to the folder where both the original exe file is and the content folder e.g. Storyline file output

6. Click ‘OK’ – ‘Add folder’ should be ticked

7. A ‘DEFAULT FOLDER’ should appear in the window

8. Click ‘File Options’ (bottom right)

9. Tick all boxes (enable files virtualization, compress files, delete extracted on exit)

10. Click ‘OK’

11. Click ‘Process’

12. Once finished you can either ‘Run’ to check the output or ‘Close’

13. Exit Enigma Virtual Box

Hope that helps and makes sense when you see the software. I must admit it feels great to turn all those files into one simple exe one. Only thing that I've found is that then the file runs at the standard size and can't be enlarged to the size of the web browser. 

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To be honest I can't remember which version of exported files it worked on but these notes show the flash version. And I still think the .exe file uses flash in some way... so I'm not sure it is  good way forward really these days..... sorry. 

best of luck
Sarah