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Vikas Mehta's blog on Flash, Usability, User Interface Design, elearning, Rapid elearning tools

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

How to install Flash debug Player without Admin Rights

Many of you faced the problem of installing debug player in firefox without Admin Rights
Here are the 2 files which you need to copy in firefox plugin folder, which installs the debug player on your browser flashplayer.xpt NPSWF32.dll

Hope this would be of help.

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Wednesday, August 20, 2008

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Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Skinning FLV Player in Flash 8



You must have seen lot of flv players with different skins with different skins options which are the part of flash 8. But if you want to create your own skin, like youtube. com.


Its very simple to create your own customizable skin for FLV Players. You need to duplicate any skin file from "Program Files\Macromedi\Flash 8\en\Configuration\SkinFLA" . Rename the file and change the look and feel of the symbols and publish it. Now you are ready to use the new skin, which is created by you.

Friday, April 20, 2007

How to add Usable print functionality in flash-based WBT/CBTs

I came across a problem in which our client wanted to print a whole elearning course module. The course was developed in Flash.

Two ways we usually print in Flash:

* Print command, which came before Flash MX 2004.
* PrintJobClass, in which you can add page to pool and print it in one go.

If we print the module on run time, it would take very long, so I created a separate file in which I loaded each flash file one by one...moving it to the last frame and then adding it in a print pool. I have a PDF writer installed on my machine, so I printed the output as a PDF file. After creating a PDF for each module I linked it to the course, so that the user can view/print the whole module.

Through this method I have made the print functionality more usable for the user.

Sometimes we only require smart thinking rather than a long code.