Playing SWFs Locally or after Downloading Them to your PlayBook (including adding an icon!)
Difficulty: Pretty easy
Step 1 – Install a Local Web Browser from the App Store. In this case, Offline Viewer.
Note: This will let you browse only your root /media/downloads folder for viewing, however you can link to any subfolder
Step 2 – Download a wack of SWF files. Need a torrent?
http://thepiratebay.org/search/flash%20games < – Grab ‘very addicting flash games’ torrent
Step 3 – Place them into a subfolder (i.e. downloads/flash_games/)
Step 4 – Add a root index.html under (downloads/) with hyperlinks to the files
Step 5 – Use the Viewer to open the file into your browser
Step 6 – Create a bookmark in your browser, save it to your Home (all)
Step 7 – Hold the icon a few seconds in the All tab and move it to the Games tab
Done!
Tip: Want to know how to create a list fast and easy? Use your old dos / batch file tools.
Easily converting a list of files to an HTML file for linking:
Lets assume you want to have:
index.html
folder\1.swf
folder\2.swf
In the same folder as the index.html, create a BAT with the following command:
dir *.swf /a/s/b > list.txt
Run the bat in the root (not as administrator), and a print out of all the files appears named list.txt.
Now, you can use Notepad to open the file and replace the string (i.e. “C:\Documents and Settings\%username%\Desktop\” to an empty string “”). This is because, once you move your files over, they will have a different path! It is always better (in these cases) to use a flexible location like: \folder\1.swf for a link location.
Now, in Excel, copy/paste that list into Column B. You should have a long list in the \folder\1.swf format.
In Column A add: <a href=”
In Column C add: “> Click to play: </a>
In Column D add: “=B1″
In Column E add: “=A1 & B1 & C1 & D1 & E1
Copy paste Column A from the start row to the bottom row.
Copy paste Columns C to E from the start row to the bottom row.
Done! Copy paste your entire Column E to another Notepad file – and it should look exactly like your HTML code.
Add to the top:
<html>
<head>
<title>Your Title</title>
</head>
</body background="optional_image.jpg">
Add to the bottom:
</body>
</html>
And your done! Could be done easier? Sure, but this only takes a few minutes. And now you have a little website with a few hundred SWF files on it.
Also, there is a reason I hard-link the SWF instead of embed. Check it out on your Playbook, but it maximizes the heck out of the SWF file for your PlayBook.
