Hello experts,
We developed more than 500 learning objects during the last years with AW7.
Everything worked fine (except Mac).
But under Vista the netdownload doesnt work. Maybe AW is not allowed to write
to system32\macromed. Has anybody a hint what to do except to change all
learning objects. I tried to use JumpOutReturn instead of netdownload and that
worked good. But I have to change hundreds learning objects. Is there any hint?
Thank you very much
Greetings from Austria

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> Hello experts,
> We developed more than 500 learning objects during the last years with
> AW7.
> Everything worked fine (except Mac).
> But under Vista the netdownload doesnt work. Maybe AW is not allowed to
> write
> to system32\macromed.

If you are using the 2004 web player, it shouldn't need to.

Has anybody a hint what to do except to change all
> learning objects. I tried to use JumpOutReturn instead of netdownload and
> that
> worked good. But I have to change hundreds learning objects. Is there any
> hint?
> Thank you very much

Could you be more specific as to what you're using JOR for and how it fixed
the problem for you?

> We developed more than 500 learning objects during the last years with
> AW7.
> Everything worked fine (except Mac).
> But under Vista the netdownload doesnt work. Maybe AW is not allowed to
> write
> to system32\macromed. Has anybody a hint what to do except to change all
> learning objects.

The 2004 player writes the files to the user's personal folders, so
system32\macromed does not matter. If you use the older Authorware 7 player,
it won't install unless the user has admin rights to that folder, so I'd
still expect it to work while they have local admin rights.

You did add the files to the Files tab in One Button Publishing, right?

> I tried to use JumpOutReturn instead of netdownload and that
> worked good. But I have to change hundreds learning objects. Is there any
> hint?

Needs more information :-) Plus - find and replace should work if you are
lucky - or ClickCraft's Find and Fix if you are less lucky.

But can you explain what you are doing with JumpOutReturn and NetDownload?

Steve


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Thanks for your assistent. I am no IT expert my focus is the content.
The students use their own notebook with admin rights...
In all learning objects are downloads from xls, ppt, pdf or doc for further
information. I didnt add the files to the files tab, but it worked till Vista.
I used the following Code:
--------------------
if LocType=1 then
File1:=Location^FileName1
end if

if LocType=2 then
DisplayIcon(IconID@"DL_Wait")
File1:=NetDownload(Location^FileName1)
Test(File1="";File1:=FileLocation^"Download\\"^Fil eName1)
EraseIcon(IconID@"DL_Wait")
end if

JumpOutReturn("";File1)
----------------------------------------
Because my students cant use it with Vista I tried on piece with
File1:=Location^"Gewinnschwelle.xls"
JumpOutReturn("";File1)
-----------------------
this works. The excel opens the file and the student can save it on their PC.
But I was busy and developed about 460 pieces. Now I have to change all and
publish (I use One Button Publishing) and upload to the server. Much work!
Maybe there is a shorter way.

> I used the following Code:
> --------------------
> if LocType=1 then
> File1:=Location^FileName1
> end if
>
> if LocType=2 then
> DisplayIcon(IconID@"DL_Wait")
> File1:=NetDownload(Location^FileName1)
> Test(File1="";File1:=FileLocation^"Download\\"^Fil eName1)
> EraseIcon(IconID@"DL_Wait")
> end if
>
> JumpOutReturn("";File1)


If you add the files to the Files tab in One Button Publishing, the files
will be downloaded automatically. By defualt they are downloaded as the
course is launched and this can lead to a long delay on start up if there is
a lot of files or they are large. If you set them, instead, to OnDemand,
then they will be downloaded as the user needs them

>

> ----------------------------------------
> Because my students cant use it with Vista I tried on piece with
> File1:=Location^"Gewinnschwelle.xls"
> JumpOutReturn("";File1)
> -----------------------
> this works. The excel opens the file and the student can save it on their
> PC.
> But I was busy and developed about 460 pieces. Now I have to change all
> and
> publish (I use One Button Publishing) and upload to the server. Much work!
> Maybe there is a shorter way.

You could use ClickCraft's Find n Fix (http://www.clickcraft.com/) to change
all instances of this

> if LocType=2 then
> DisplayIcon(IconID@"DL_Wait")
> File1:=NetDownload(Location^FileName1)
> Test(File1="";File1:=FileLocation^"Download\\"^Fil eName1)
> EraseIcon(IconID@"DL_Wait")
> end if
>
> JumpOutReturn("";File1)

To

JumpOutReturn("";NetLocation^File1)

or

GoToNetPage(NetLocation^File1; "_blank")

Steve


--
http://twitter.com/Stevehoward999

Adobe Community Expert: eLearning, Mobile and Devices
European eLearning Summit - EeLS
Adobe-sponsored eLearning conference.
http://www.elearningsummit.eu

thank you very much. I will use click craft....