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To see local Story save as EXE
To see a Story on a local computer save as an EXE.
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Inappropriate?If you save as a Web Story and try to just click index.html or main.swf on your computer, you will only get a blank screen. A web story has to be run from a web server or the content will not show.
Flypaper recommends that if you want a local copy to run, save as an .exe file.
Details:
Why? Security settings. We are tracking the interactions in the Web Story, so we are sending information back to flypaper.net from that Web Story. Running a swf on a local computer and sending information back to a web server is a favorite trick among hackers, and Adobe Flash and Windows have security settings in place to block that communication. Normally, clicking the index.html file or the main.swf would pop open a security dialog from Adobe warning the user about the security hazard and offering options. Unfortunately, there is a bug right now that prevents that dialog from Adobe appearing on the user's computer. Instead there is just a white screen and no messages. The bug may be in the browser, or in the Flash Player, or in the Flypaper runtime. To date we have not been able to find the exact cause.
Our solution is to save as an .exe file. This will play the content on the local computer without the security blocks.
You can also just use the File/Preview/Web Browser settings to just preview from Flypaper in a web browser at the resolution of your choice.
Finally, the last and most geeky solution of all, is to follow Adobe's steps to add the story folder to your trusted web sites.
1) Run the index.html
2) Right-click on the white screen and choose Settings. (the Adobe Flash Player settings dialog should appear)
3) At the bottom of the dialog, Select the second icon from the left (the screen with the eyeball)
4) The privacy settings come up. Click the Advanced button. A browser should open to: http://www.macromedia.com/support/doc...
5) On the left side click Global Security Settings Panel (3rd menu item from the top). You should be taken to: http://www.macromedia.com/support/doc...
6) Click the Edit Locations list.
7) Select Add Location. A dialog with choices to Browse for files... or Browse for folder... appear.
8) Click Browse for folder... and find the folder with the Flypaper Story output, and click OK
9) The folder path appears in the bottom of the Settings Manager dialog with a green check under the heading: "Always trust files in these locations:"
10) Click index.html again, and the content should appear.
You may have to repeat these steps for each new folder you create.
We know this is a pain, and we are working on a better solution.
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Inappropriate?Here is a tip so you don't have to run through this process every time you create a Web Story.
Create one testing folder and run the procedure above on that folder. Then, every time you save a Web Story, copy the files from the new folder into the testing folder.
1. Create a folder on your local computer, call it C:\Web_Story.
2. Run the procedure above once so that C:\Web_Story is a trusted folder.
3. Save your Flypaper Story as a Web Story. Let's say it is called "Story1".
4. Copy the files from inside the "Story1" folder to C:\Web_Story.
5. Once the files are copied over, click the index.html file to view the Story.
In other words, you don't have to make every web story folder a trusted folder, you just have to create one trusted folder and copy each new story inside.
