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Urgent-need authorware 7 FULL installer

January 3, 2007, 4:18 pm
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Hi all:

Evidently Macromedia no longer makes the FULL installer for Authorware 7 - I need this player FULL installer to help a customer who is using it. Can someone please give me the link or email me the player - I need this asap.... By the FULL installer I am referring to the one that creates the AW70, AW65, AW50, AW40 etc folders all at once when you install it under windows\system32\macromed\authorwa\np32asw folder...... Please make certain yours does this before emailing me back... On the Adobe site, it doesn't install those folders above and I need to experiment with the specific player installer I mention and not the newest one.....

Thanks

Patrick
mrgalaxy@aol.com
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Font Issue

April 1, 2009, 7:45 am
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Our program uses a couple of custom fonts that are installed when the program is installed. It's been released for 2+ years and hasn't really had any problems until lately. One of our users is saying that the fonts are not displaying properly. The strange thing is that they can remove the fonts and then reinstall them and the program displays the fonts just fine, but after they reboot the computer Authorware is not recognizing the fonts even though they are still in the fonts folder and can be opened. Just for some background we originally had a catch when the program launched to check to make sure the fonts were installed using BudAPI functions. The FontInstalled function was saying the fonts weren't installed so it would try to install them with the InstallFont call which would error out because the fonts were already installed. We put a catch in there to bypass the error if the fonts were installed. Now the problem is they don't get the error but the program still doesn't recognize that the fonts are installed and displays a default font which throws the display off.

These are Windows XP machines. Program was done in Authorware 7. This site is running through the WebPlayer but the files are NOT web packaged, at least the content files aren't, the launch file is.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
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Internet Explorer 8

February 19, 2009, 11:42 am
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I don't know I it's just rumor or not but I have heard that Authorware Web pieces will have some problems with the IE8 browser.

Does anyone have any insight into this?

As our business still uses IE6 so I don't know what to expect but want to be looking ahead.
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Colouring Text

May 11, 2006, 2:35 am
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Hi, I hope I make sense with this.

I want to display a list showing completed sections. I would very much like to display those sections completed in a different colour.

So I was going to start with,

Contents := “Sections” ^ Return

Then I was going to use ‘Contents := Contents ^“Section 1” ^ Return
then ‘Contents := Contents ^ “Section 2” ^ Return and so on.....

If the section had not been visited then the flow-line would just add the text in normal black font colour, if the section had been visited I would like to use a decision icon to add the text in a green font colour by-passing the add black text icon.

Is there a way I can add different coloured text to a string?
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I cannot get Macromedia Authorware Web Player to work.

August 6, 2009, 8:55 am
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Running Vista on a Windows 64 bit computer.  I cannot get Macromedia Authorware Web Player to work.  When I download the program I never saw the “movie playing below”.  I only see a bar saying ‘loading files’ when I try to open a file via Authorware.

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Internal Error Accessing Xtra (Authorware 7 Desktop Runtime)

September 15, 2009, 10:18 am
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We have the exact same courseware installed on 8 machines that are all setup the exact same way. 2 of them are working correctly. The remaining six machines display the following error message when trying to access functions in the DataSafe Xtra:

 

Internal error in authorware: unable to find a valid in-memory scripting xtra object for call of function "mcDataSafeRegister".

 

The same error appears for any subsequent attempt to access the DataSafe Xtra.

 

What doesn't make sense is that there are 2 machines that are working OK and access that Xtra without any problems. We've copied the code from the working machines to the non-working ones and still get the same error.

 

Any suggestions?

 

Thanks

 

Mark

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Transition Crash

December 31, 2009, 8:48 am
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Hi, I'm a relatively unaccomplished user, but I've created a test with 25-questions. The problem I've encountered is that when I get to the very last question, and the user "clicks" on the answer, I get an error message-crash.

 

The error message is "The transition Xtra ("") specified by this icon is not available.

 

When I make sure that the transition for the icon works properly, and I run just that one question, everything works fine.

 

However after I "save" and "exit", when I come back to the same question, I get the same result.

 

Can somebody guide me in a direction to solve this?

 

Thanks a lot - and Happy New Year.

 

Don

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Help Converting Authorware exes to XML (or other indexible formats)

November 30, 2010, 1:12 pm
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Hi all, newbie question here!

 

 

I have a bunch of executables (Authorware runtimes) that need to be searchable by content. Hence I need to index into a search server like Solr or Sphinx. But to do that requires the content executables be decompiled in some fashion or exported to some other format. (note: the source code is unavailable!)

 

What are the ways of going about it? Is it possible to convert the Authorware content .EXE to say an XML or some other export format that captures the content flow, the various input elements, graphics etc.?

 

Apologies if this has been asked/answered before but a few hours of googling brought me no luck.

 

Thanks for your help!

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Are there many people still developing in Authorware

August 14, 2013, 4:12 pm
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Is this still an active community?

 

Our place use Captivate and Authorware & from what I can see of Authorware, you can do muich more in Authorware....

 

Otheres finding the same?

 

Cheers

Rossco

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Redistributing Authorware Web Player

December 11, 2013, 2:58 am
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Troubles with LMS and Explorer

August 10, 2006, 12:11 am
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Goodmorning everybody,

The past two months i've been trying to create a aw-piece that works in a LMS (SABA).
Finally, technical speaking, it works. Still I have my doubts about it....

First, i've have used a java-code which communicates with the lms, this code was from an existing
file called 'Testbed', came along with AW, after a lot of puzzling it works. Still initializing the LMS takes a lot of time
Sometimes about 10, 15 seconds. I've also used the KO LMS Initialize, it takes even longer, 30 seconds. Is this
normal ? Because in the CBT there are also questions, and i'm writing the results, questions-id e.g to the LMS,
it also takes 3 or 4 seconds. Normal ?

The version of java we use is 1.4.2. We have notices that older versions don't work with SABA. At home I have version Java 1.5
It seems to me it works better, but is this a feeling or fact?

On the other hand, the course runs on our intranet, and i can't figure out how much effect the server has on the
performance of the CBT. After starting up the java console (and the cbt), i'm able to see two messages which alert me,
first the message 'connection thread gets into wait', and straight after,10 or 20 seconds later
'failed to assert permission from microsoft policy engine'. After this message, everything works, data is transmitted and
the cbt/lms works. It doesn't matter whether i use my own code or the lms-KO's, i always see these messages.

Does anybody recognize the messages, and know where they come from, and can i do anything about them?

Last point. I notice that sometimes, say one out of fifteen times starting the cbt, the explorer 'is not responding' when quitting
the cbt. It always happens when i'm quitting the cbt, never during start up. Is this a known problem ? Has it something to do with
the LMS, or communication. I have no idea, but it irretates me a lot to see so this message. The trainee has to do the whole course again, because aw failed to write it's data to the LMS.

Finally, has somebody published pieces running and communicating with the LMS SABA before. Did it all work, any nasty bugs or other bad experiences ?


I hope i've given enough information to receive some help from you,
thanks on forhand,
greetings Marc
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Shockwave 11 Active X Crash

March 31, 2008, 6:08 am
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Just loaded the new Shockwave 11. Authorware crashes when I try to insert a new Activex control into the flowline that references the new Shockwave Activex. Anybody know why or how I can avoid this issue?

Thanks in advance,
Joe Russell
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swf in aw7 exe - crashing in Vista

November 26, 2007, 9:08 am
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I created a CBT product that incorporates various small movie scenes (swf). It works fine in XP and earlier versions but when deployed to Vista it experiences random crashes while playing the various swf. By random, I mean: one time it might go through all the scenes seamlessly but on re-entering it might crash part way through the 2nd swf or the next time part way through the 1st or 5th.

This is error that is generated:

"Authorware Runtime has stopped working"
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
AppName: Mod1.exe
AppVer:7.02.0
Application Timestamp: 406171.ea
Fault Module Name: FLASHAST.X32
Fault Module Version: 9.0.0.183
Fault Module Timestamp: 3d776de7
Exception Code: c0000005
ExceptionOffset: 00095990
OS Version: 6.0.6000.2.0.256.6

I tried replacing the FLASHAST.X32 but it still crashes.

Any suggestions as to why this occuring only in the Vista environment? or what I can do to correct the situation.
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Error: "Authorware Runtime has stopped working"

November 8, 2007, 1:48 pm
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I'm trying to fix a problem our students are having with an instructional CD that was made by Ivy Software. I'm getting an error "Authorware Runtime has stopped working". I have spent a considerable amount of time trying to diagnose and fix this problem.

So far we have been unsuccessful getting it to work on a Lenovo factory (OEM) HDD image. It works fine on all other PCs running any OS and any version of IE. I’m providing some links to documentation I found that may be of help with the diagnosis, although none of these documents have solved the problem. I have also noticed that the web installation, the first link below, for the newest version of the Authorware Player errors out on the Lenovo image but works on other PCs. I have put a call into Adobe to get the distributable installer for this updated version, as described in the 13295 "Technote", but I'm not holding my breath. The Adobe support rep. said they would mail me an FTP location to dl this installer, "if they can find it". :-P

It appears that there is no installation, the entire module runs directly from the CD and does not install anything to the HDD. The files on the CD utilize the Macormedia product called Authorware which comes as both a development program and an add-in for browsers. The error message we get when we autorun the CD is "Authorware Runtime has stopped working". It isn't clear to me exactally what it is running from the CD and or from the OS when displaying this Macromedia Authorware software CD, since the Task manager shows only "start.exe" running from the CD. Start.exe shows it is Macromedia Authorware 7.02 in its file properties.

Macromedia Authorware Player Download Center
http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveAuthorware
Authorware Web Players
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_15966&sliceId=1
Troubleshooting Authorware Web Player for Windows
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_14720&sliceId=1
How to install or uninstall the Authorware Web Player ActiveX control
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_13295&sliceId=1

Any help that can be provided would be greatly appreciated.

Sincerely, Garth
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Can you convert Authorware lessons to Flash?

April 11, 2007, 7:22 am
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Does anyone have any knowledge of how one can convert a lesson designed in Authorware into a Flash file without having to reprogram the whole lesson?
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Installing Web Player on Win 7

January 20, 2011, 8:05 am
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I am installing Authorware Webplayer on multiple machines on IE and Firefox. I am not using a silent install nor am I deploying it. My problem is that when I install the webplayer on IE the program will not be available for any other user besides the administrator. When I install it on Firefox under Admin it is available for all other users.

 

Any help?

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Is there a maximum size or limit of text file when storing and transferring data?

January 25, 2012, 9:35 am
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Hi -

 

We've been using WriteExtFile and AppendExtFile to store data in a CSV text file in a data folder in the same location as our Authorware executable file.

 

  WriteExtFile("data\\"^"Variable_Names.txt", Survey_Variable_Names)

  AppendExtFile("data\\Survey_DATA.txt", Survey_Data)

 

As a rule, we've always put our executable files on the hard drive of the computer (C:) because of some problems we have had with an inconsistent network drive in the past.  Having the files on the C: drive eliminated any network issues.  Our accumulating data would always be stored to the C: drive as well.

 

We now need to store a backup copy of the data on a server, in addition to the C: drive.

 

My question is: Is there is a maximum file size that can be 'read in' and then 'written' using Authorware?

 

My thought was to use ReadExtFile to read in the contents of the "Survey_DATA.txt" file and then use WriteExtFile to write out that same data to a drive on the network, appending the date and time to the end of the file name to serve as a backup file.

 

I've used this logic, which is working to write to the network drive "P":

 

  WriteExtFile("P:\\Survey_Project\\BackupData\\DATA_BACKUP_"^Backup_Date^"_"^Backup_Time^" .txt", Survey_Backup_Data)

 

Naturally, the size of the original data text file on the C: drive is going to continue to grow since we are using 'AppendExtFile' to add the data from each survey record to the data file (CSV, each record on it's own line).  So the size of the file that we are going to read back in (using ReadExtFile) will also continue to grow.

 

Is there a limit to what we can read in, and then write back out?

 

Thanks!

 

Scott

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Does Adobe plan to release a 64 bit version of the Authorware Web Player?

July 25, 2013, 7:06 am
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I know that Adobe has no plans to continue development of Authorware 7. However, as a service to their loyal customers who have purchased Authorware along with many other Adobe products, it does not seem like a daunting task to convert the 32 bit version of the Web Player over to a 64 bit version. This would facilitate individuals who are using IE 64 bit version browsers to run Authorware developed e-learning products.

 

Adobe, we are once again at your mercy. How will you respond?

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Need help in converting authorware files to HTML5

February 25, 2014, 3:09 am
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Hi,

 

 

I am using Windows7 64 bit OS, I have games written in Authorware and I want to convert this into HTML5. Can anybody help me in achieving this.

 

 

I went through some forums which says there is no direct conversion possible. But I want to know what possible way I have to convert Authroware files to HTML5.

 

 

Thanks

Ahamed

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Converting PowerPoint to Authorware

August 11, 2006, 9:32 am
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Hi,
After having used the converters command to microsoft PP and having set all the options.
Having closed the dialog box and clicked the convert button with an Automatically import.
A Frame work icon and attached pages containing slides are created .
When I run the piece:
1) I have to click each time to display the next slide.In other words I would have prefered to have a complete diaporama.
2) The content of some slides appear in the next slides .
3) The sound narration has desappeared.
Here are the few problems I encountered in this converting process.
It was my first attempt .
Thanks very much for any tip.
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