That’s definitely a valid question, I must sheepishly admit. =)

I guess the answer was that it didn’t really occur to me to build it in Flash. (So much for “thinking outside the box”.) I’ve built presentations in Flash before, but my feeling is that it would require more work to build a slide deck (from scratch) in Flash than it would in PowerPoint.

One of the projects I’ve had in the back of my head forever but haven’t built yet is a presentation tool built in Flash. Maybe someday I’ll get around to building it, and then I won’t go back to PowerPoint again.

The workarounds depend a little bit on what you’re trying to accomplish.

This reply got really long, so I decided to just post it as a new article:

Accessing local and remote resources in a locally running SWF

I missed your presentation but now able to review it and liked it.

I have a question. You say that in your presentation
“SWF files are set to load local files only or remote files only ‚Äì if you want to load the other type, it won‚Äôt work and you‚Äôll get an error message. There are several workarounds, ..
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Can you share the work around for this problem? I used the executable file (instead of swf) but it even gave errors when I had local and remote files to load. The browser should be always open when the file is running. Is there a way to make it run?

Thanks

Cheers,

-mL