[casual_games] About Flash Wrappers

[Hal Barwood]

Not sure if performance is a problem for your Flash games or not, but be 
aware:  wrappers that use the OCX browser plug-in can run really slowly: 
  in my experience, about 1/2 as fast as the standalone player.  A 
previous thread on this topic identified some wrappers that incorporate 
the standalone player -- worth a careful look.


Cameron Owen wrote:
> You might also want to look into using browser based projectors. There 
> are a few programs around that will package HTML content into an 
> executable (mostly IE wrappers) and allow similar features (full screen, 
> resolution, local file system access) with the added benifit of being 
> able to use the browser itself for various types of HTML content that is 
> generally quicker to produce than Flash content such as help files, 
> support pages, order forms and so forth.
> 
> Screenweaver is also an open source projector tool with a lot of 
> features but I found the work-flow of developing with it to be very 
> unproductive and quicksome. It show a lot of promise with future 
> development though.
> 
> For security, you might want to look into any possible Flash 9 options. 
> Flash 9 with action script 3.0 is compiled into a form of byte code 
> which will provide added security as it will be a little more difficult 
> to reverse-engineer. However, sooner or later someone will figure out 
> how to reverse-engineer F9 byte code as well (probably sooner).
> 
> The best option would be to approach various portals or your publishers 
> and see what they can offer in the form of DRM wrappers or consider 
> hiring a C/C++ developer to write your own. I know a few flash 
> developers do this as well as using a similar wrapper as a browser 
> plug-in to protect their flash games being played online.
> 
> On 03/11/06, *Rajat Paharia* <rpaharia+lists at gmail.com 
> <mailto:rpaharia+lists at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi Allen -
> 
>     You may also want to look at:
>     mProjector - http://www.screentime.com/software/mprojector/
>     <http://www.screentime.com/software/mprojector/>
>     SWF Studio - http://www.northcode.com/
>     Screenweaver - http://screenweaver.com/about
> 
>     Flash Magazine has an older roundup of the various projector tools
>     from last year: http://www.flashmagazine.com/1100.htm
> 
>     best, - rajat
>     -- 
>     Rajat Paharia
>     rajat at bunchball.com <mailto:rajat at bunchball.com>
>     http://www.bunchball.com
>     Bunchball is hiring!
> 
> 
>     On 11/2/06, *Allen R Partridge* < allen.partridge at iup.edu
>     <mailto:allen.partridge at iup.edu>> wrote:
> 
>         I'm examining Flash Wrappers today (or arguably wrappers in general)
>         and wondered if folks on the list have any thoughts about the
>         commercially available options, their own options etc.
> 
>         I have looked at SWFKit, MDMZink, and Jugglor, and read over the
>         past
>         posts and a great article on the topic (leading to an in house
>         build)
>         from the folks at Oberon.
> 
>         Anybody see major options I'm missing? Anyone using or avoiding
>         any of
>         the above for any reason?
> 
>         I'm examining questions like ... ease of extensibility - can I
>         use it
>         to write files to local machines easily? Ease of resolution
>         shifting,
>         can I use it to detect, set and reset screen resolution eaisily?
>         Ease
>         of registry and system access. Customization and compression, can I
>         put in just what I need easily in order to optimize file size on the
>         deliverable? Security - does it enhance security - protect the files
>         better?
> 
>         Finally I'm interested in opinions about the implications of Adobe
>         Apollo for the wrapper phenomenon.
> 
>         Thanks in advance for your thoughts,
> 
>         Al
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