SWF vs EXE

Hi all

Could you great and wonderful people out there please help me in the following:

I did almost all of my outings in format exe I specialize in the demo, sim and evaluate software owners and try to recreate the same look and feel for users of my product. Since the posts in this forum, it seems that general preferance is to output SWF. So, could you people please help and let me know what the differences are and if there is a reason to use one format rather than the other?

Thanks a stack

Andrew

Hi Andrew

. SWF is a good choice if you place your Captivate content up on a web server. In this way, you simply provide a link and your username to watch the movie. If you were to place the. EXE up here, they would always and always be invited with a dialog asking who they would like to do. Run the file from here (and there are often messages informing them how much this can be - depends on the browser) or save the file to their hard drive.

In general. EXE will be used if you place content on a CD.

The main difference between the two is that with. SWF, a certain expectation exists. This expectation is that your username has a browser that is equipped to read Flash content. If the browser does not have Flash, they are out of luck. But a very high percentage of browsers are 'capable Flash' these days, so it is not much of a cause for concern.

With the. EXE to output, a Flash Player is included in the. EXE. So when the. EXE is run by your username, it matter than anything on the Flash PC capable or not, because it is inside of the. EXE. The only issue here is that you have different. Types EXE. (Well, in version 2 of Captivate do you. Apple, LInux, and Windows. Seems that Captivate 3 may have changed the playing field on us again in this regard. All I seem to be able to produce here is a Windows. EXE.)

If all goes well there was something there that has contributed to... Rick

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