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theDrGreg
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March 31, 2021
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Has anyone found a process for publishing interactive animations with synched sound?

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I want to deliver a suite of animations that contain interactive elements (buttons, click-and-drag, hitTest, text input, etc.) which I used to be able to do with Flash Player (before End of Life).

I can't get Projectors to work properly, they don't seem to survive transfers out of my mac: https://community.adobe.com/t5/animate/projector-gets-broken-after-transferring-out-of-my-mac/m-p/11935493#M342391 and I can't think of any other way of publishing the fully functional, interactive animations.

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kglad
kglad
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March 31, 2021

1.  i don't see a problem creating a mac projector on a mac, moving to a usb stick, playing the projector from the usb stick and i don't see a problem moving the projector back to the mac and playing after those two (mac to usb to mac) moves.

 

2.  you're trying to deliver to whom? 

if to internet users that will use their web browser, you should be using canvas/html5 projects.

 

3.  if you have a much more limited audience in mind (eg, friends of yours) (your friends will need a flash player on their computers to play a projector file).

 

4.  an air app would embed a player with your app, so would be better suited to file movement to friends' computers.

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theDrGregAuthor
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March 31, 2021

Hi kglad

 

Thank you for joining this discussion, I'm encouraged by your participation since you've helped me many times before.

 

When I publish a Mac Projector (which runs well on the Mac that generated it) and upload it to Google Drive or to a website created by Blackboard (a Course Tools software), the projector changes into a folder. I've been told that Mac apps are folders, but clicking on the uploaded icon in Google Drive just makes me enter the folder as though navigating it. If I download the folder back to the Mac that generated it, the folder goes back to looking like a Mac projector icon. However, clicking on this gives a  file is damaged message and won't open it. The same things happen when I share the Google Drive contents with another Mac user. The same thing happens when I give my students access to the projector in a Blackboard site.

 

Ultimately, I would like to create an eTextbook (for high school and college chemistry) that allows students to learn by doing/interacting with the content – and that requires the full interactivity afforded by Animate (so canvas/html5 won't be good enough).

kglad
kglad
Community Expert
April 1, 2021

My understanding was that Projectors contained the Flash Player (its advantage over .swf) which made it a suitable work around on the Flash Player end of life, is that wrong? Do I need to look elsewhere for a way of delivering interactive animations with synched sound?

 

I've tried zipping a Mac Projector, uploading it into Google Drive, downloading the zipped file onto the same Mac that generated it, and gettiing a file damaged message after unzipping and clicking on the projector icon generated.


oops, you are correct.

 

projector files include your swf and a flash player.  why your files are getting corrupted with uploading and then downloading, i do not know.

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