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Chris Dawson wrote:

> i haven't created one for years, but a client has a flash file that they
> want to turn into a screensaver. i know about 'screentime' which i used many
> years ago with director; is this still the best option for flash
> screensavers. are there any other options *with proper distribution
> licenses*; we need to be able to offer these screensavers for download by
> the masses, so, easy and robust installs needed.

We recently (last month) used ScreenTime to build a screen saver for the 
BBC, which had to be in OSX, OS9 and Windows flavours, which ScreenTime 
handled very well. It also has a bunch of Flash components which you can 
use to control the screen saver from Flash itself (if you so require).

The final installers were clean, tiny and work well, and can include the 
Flash players if you want. Our screen saver was quite simple, but did 
included embedded video, which worked with no problems.

If you want to see, here is the screen saver we built (click 'Downloads')

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/cartoons/shaunthesheep/

Cheers,

Rich
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Zend Certified Engineer
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