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From: Susan Phillips on 8 Oct 2008 15:55 We are having a slightly different problem with variables we've never before experienced. New trainees trying to launch Authorware content are receiving a parsing manifest error. These are people on PCs which were recently converted to XP and they do not have Internet access. The Authorware 7 player is part of their user group profile. When they click the link to launch the lesson, it seems to start building, the bar in the screen says "Parsing Manifest" (I'm going from a screenshot here) and they then get an Authorware Web Player Error that says "Error downloading content file. Internal error: Time Out http://download.macromedia.com/pu/authorware/authorware_player/webplr05/wedplr05 complete.inf (Note: We still build using Authorware 5.2) Any ideas? We've never had this problem before and have other people who moved to XP, but they also had Internet access. :confused;
From: Mike Baker **Adobe Community Expert** on 8 Oct 2008 16:44
Refer to the technote www.adobe.com/go/tn_19348 It's rather long. You need to concentrate on the 'manifest' file and using custom manifests. The manifest is the list of the files you want to be downloaded for your player. The default action of the player is to use the complete manifest from download.macromedia.com. You can customize this using a PLR line in the map file PLR COMPACT (uses the smaller version of the player from download.macromedia.com) - or - PLR http://myserver/mydirectory/mymanifest.inf Your map file can specify a manifest relative to the map, all your content can use the same manifest (this was the intent) and you can customize it to use only the files you want (also the intent). Using a custom manifest also allows you to download the xtras, u32, and other player files from your own server (also the intent). The manifest file can inlcude files of your own choosing so you can download all the common interface files or support files that you need for all pieces. If you like you can have a manifest that has one text file that you download and ignore. Some browsers don't like empty files so there has to be at least one thing listed in the manifest. File publishing doesn't support the PLR line or manifest files (they weren't created until after publishing was finished). I believe there is at least one add-on that was created for supporting them - I use notepad. HTH, Mike ==================== Mike Baker Adobe Community Expert mike-baker at cox dot net |