Re: How to enable Flash Player in a WinCE 4.2 OS design
- From: "Paul G. Tobey [eMVP]" <p space tobey no spam AT no instrument no spam DOT com>
- Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 14:02:31 -0700
Pocket PC 2003 is a specific type of Windows Mobile device. Since you no
doubt carefully read the license agreement that you accepted before
installing it (right?), you should know whether it's legal to install it on
a non-Windows Mobile CE-based device.
Paul T.
"William Powell" <WilliamPowell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Chris,
Actually, I downloaded the FP6 for PocketPC 2003 from the Adobe website.
Could be that it was really a WM version, I guess. although I'm surprised
it
installed in my WinCE 4.2 OS design without a warning.
Sounds like a special version of Flash player would be needed for anything
other than Windows Mobile or Pocket PC?
Bill
"<ctacke/>" wrote:
WM == "Windows Mobile" which is the version you've downloaded. There is
no
download of Macromedia Plash Player for non Windows-Mobile (WM) versions
of
Windows CE. If you want the player for generic CE devices you have to
license it. A quick search of BSquare's site doesn't bring it up, but I
know they acquired the rights to be the distributor when they purchased
Vibren (who was the distributor the last time I actually dealt with
this).
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"William Powell" <WilliamPowell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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Chris,
I'm not sure I understand your response:
I assume WM is for Windows Media (player), but I've never heard of it
playing Macromedia (now Adobe) Flash movie files. Also didn't
understand
the
comment about using it or deploying with WinCE.
Checked on the BSquare site for Flash Player and could find nothing.
Can
you point me to a link? (also, I would have thought that any licensing
would
have been through Adobe ?)
Bill
"<ctacke/>" wrote:
The WM player probably won't work, and even if it did the license
prohibits
you from using it or deploying it in WinCE anyway. You must license
the
Flash Player from BSquare. They'll provide everything you need to
integrate
it into your platform.
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"William Powell" <WilliamPowell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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I've got a dev kit running WinCE 4.2 on a PXA270 platform and would
like
to
be able to run a Macromedia Flash Player demo application. I think
Flash
Player 6 (FP6) is the version I would need because I believe this is
the
version targetted to the Pocket PC 2003 which is based on WinCE 4.2.
I've heard from one source that in order to get Flash Player to run
in
WinCE, I would need to get source code access to Flash Player and
make
modifications to make it work in a WinCE OS design.
In the spirit of giving it a try, I've downloaded the FP6 install
from
Adobe
(for Pocket PC 2003) and this appears to install over Active Sync to
the
dev
kit (Note: the dev kit does not have any persisent storage - I guess
it
wasn't implemented in the BSP, so I've been installing and testing
without
resetting the OS). It creates a default directory (Macromedia) in
the
Windows directory and installs a flash.dll file. However, when I
take
one
of
the sample files (*.html and *.swf file) from the Flash 6 Content
Developers
Kit (CDK) and drop them into the /Temp folder and open the *.html
file
in
Pocket Internet Explorer, I just get a blank background (actually
the
bkgnd
color that is specified in the *.html file).
- Is there another step I need to take with Pocket Internet Explorer
to
somehow enable FP6?
- Is there a catalog component that needs to be installed in
addition
to
the Pocket Internet Explorer to enable Flash plafback?
I also tried installing the Bryht Flash player to the dev kit. When
I
try
to run the same *.html file within that program, it gives me an
error
message
that it can't find the flash player in the system.
Has anyone else created a WinCE OS design (4.2 preferably, but if
you
know
of other dev kits that would also be useful) that is able to play
back
Flash
files?
Any help/insight you can provide would be appreciated.
Bill
.
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