Best Way to Show Flash in Installer?

[MikeSchinkel]

What's the best way to show a Flash movie from within an installer?

I am using NSIS to package and distribute product selection "Guides" in PDF format. This means we'll revise the "installer" (we are calling it a "downloader") each time we publish a new Guide.

One of the options I'd like to have is to be able to display a Flash video while files are downloading in the background.

What's the best way to accomplish this? If the answer is I need a Flash plug-in, is there someone who would be willing to write one for me, for pay, and if so, how much?

Thanks in advance.

[Anders]

this might help: http://nsis.sourceforge.net/NsWeb:_A_plugin_to_display_the_web_browser_control_in_a_custom_page

[MikeSchinkel]

Originally posted by Anders
this might help: http://nsis.sourceforge.net/NsWeb:_A_plugin_to_display_the_web_browser_control_in_a_custom_page

Thanks. But isn't that blocking? IOW, doesn't it wait until the user is finished viewing before it moves on to anything else, such as downloading content in the background?

[onad]

PDF is not flash but a portable document format.

If you save the PDF with no so advance features you can emedd a third party opensource reader by installing the reader on the fly.

Consider also to make the PDF to RTF and open with wordpad.

[onad]

Sorry I did not read your post well enough.

I've created once a Flash pluging for NSIS, it is however not opensource and not available for 3rd parties.

Some tips:

* Used Delphi to create the plugin
* Since I got the handle of the installerwindow, this helped positioning the plugin window on the same spot and size of the installer
* http://www.flashplayercontrol.com/ will speed your developemnt

I'm sorry , but since I'm a busy guy, I cannot help more by providing a opensource plugin.

[MikeSchinkel]

Originally posted by onad
PDF is not flash but a portable document format.

If you save the PDF with no so advance features you can emedd a third party opensource reader by installing the reader on the fly.

Consider also to make the PDF to RTF and open with wordpad. Thanks. I guess my post wasn't clear. My PDF files are the primary "payload" to be downloaded from our website by the installer, but I'm also looking to show Flash videos while the PDF files are downloading.

[MikeSchinkel]

Originally posted by onad
Sorry I did not read your post well enough.

I've created once a Flash pluging for NSIS, it is however not opensource and not available for 3rd parties.

Some tips:

* Used Delphi to create the plugin
* Since I got the handle of the installerwindow, this helped positioning the plugin window on the same spot and size of the installer
* http://www.flashplayercontrol.com/ will speed your developemnt

I'm sorry , but since I'm a busy guy, I cannot help more by providing a opensource plugin. Thanks for the suggestions. Any chance you'd be open to work for hire, or selling the plug-in?