Check Project and Distribute Files

At the end when you finish designing the multimedia application, you would like to create distribution of your files.

E-Card is a smaller stand-alone executable, which you can send to somebody via e-mail.

The most important thing for e-card is the size, because it takes a while when you download files with e-mail client.

Some of the functions of the standard player were taken off.

The Restrictions:

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No sound

•	No full screen background

•	No plugins

•	No Replace Image or Image Resize/Rotate functions

•	Some other small restrictions.....

E-card should work on all Windows95/98/NT systems the same way as standard Stand Alone player.

From version 4.6 E-card is not dependable on any windows system dll's.

This tool checks the project against fixed paths for WAVE, AVI and other external files.

(See comments about relative paths in External Commands and Page Actions)

You can create a distribution even if you have errors. You will be able to play the application, and you will only have problems with external files with fixed paths.

Resizing bitmaps and applying effects will create temporary bitmaps inside the project.

Those bitmaps are not necessary for distribution and removing them can significantly reduce the size of the project.

Compression

For distributing files on Internet or if the requirement is the size of file you can use powerful compression.

If you don’t have the problem with space, you should select uncompressed – the project will load much faster then with compression.

The compression will change the quality. The significant quality change can be seen after Good Compression.

Only one compression doesn’t change quality – ZIP (100% Quality)

If you want to compress files, but you don’t want to create *exe files (for example to send mbd to user gallery on Internet) you can use from menu File – Compress & Export instead.

Stand Alone

Standard MMB output is the player and the MBD data file.

With Stand–Alone checked, the compiler will produce only one .EXE file – the MBD data file will be linked inside the .exe file.

Important Note:

Check Project and Distribute files doesn’t copy the external files (WAV, AVI or other externals) to the distribution location. (They could be very big!)

You will be informed after you press the OK button.

In order to finish distribution of the files, you have to press OK. The result message will pop-up.

This will process the mbd data in such way that no Text or Script would be visible if you look at it in the Hex editor. Also, the file can't be loaded back to the designer (no password will help!) so it can only be played. However, note that the loading of file with Secure layer would need more time and memory that without this layer so you should use it only on necessary files.

The same option was added to Compress and Export to easy create mbd files, which can't be viewed in Hex editors and loaded in designer.

Here you can set the application icon, which will be then displayed in program title bar, application taskbar or the Alt-Tab menu. There is currently no way to use XP/Vista icons in Compile dialog. But you can replace the 16/256color icon after compiling the project. There is a tool to do this right in MMB installation folder called "mmb_iconchanger.exe ". Simply run this tool, chose your compiled project, your XP/Vista multi-icon and simply press [Replace] button.

This "Copyrights Info" allows you to insert your own file version information and comments to the final executable. For example, you can put your copyright for the contents you created, comments about used materials or publication version number. It resolves some legal issues if your customer doesn't want to put your copyright on the project pages but you still want to have your copyright or name there. Many other authoring tools didn't allow you to do this. You can access this option only in the Check & Distribute dialog box. Remember, that this work only if the "Create Stand-Alone file" option is checked. You can put up to 35 characters per field. If you want to show File Version tab in your executable (or anyone else *.exe file), then select the executable, press ALT + ENTER and click on a Version tab.

NOTE 4.9.8: With purchased "Comment Unlock Code" you can change also the Comment field, which by default contains this string..

After purchasing the code (here) and entering it in "About MMB" dialog, you will see a new Comments field in compile dialog..

If you creating autorun menu for CD then you need to generate autorun.inf and put it on CD together with the exe, mbd and all other files. Autorun.inf and the MMB project (exe or player.exe) must be in the root of the CD.

If you creating other than CD projects then you don't need autorun.inf generated.

IMPORTANT! Keep the exe filename in 8+3 format and without empty spaces! If your autorun doesn't work, the empty space in program name (like "my program.exe") is the most common cause of this problem! If you still wish to use empty spaces in the program file name, you need to edit the Autorun.inf and enclose the program name in double quotes.

Enabling this options will suppress all error and warning messages generated by FMOD audio library (e.g. "Unsupported file format" or "Sound Card is not installed").

Enabling this options will suppress all Flash player information/warning/error messages generated by Flash player (including the Flash player installation..in other words, this will make the embedded Flash player installation completely silent).

This is a special option for embedding the Flash runtime files that have to be installed on the user's system. According the Macromedia's website, the current penetration of the Flash player is about 98% of all users already connected to the Internet. It's probably because the Flash player is installed with most of the current Internet browsers, like a MS Internet Explorer or Netscape Communicator. Therefore, you don't need to embed the Flash runtime into your project in most cases. On the other hand, this option is always useful in cases when you are not sure about the version of Flash player already installed on user's system or if the Flash player is ever installed on the user's system. With MMB4.9 is shipped Flash player version 6. If you don't check this option and the Flash player will not be installed on the user's system, or the version of already installed Flash player is older than expected, then application will try to connect to the Macromedia web site and will download and install the most recent version of Flash player.