Is it POSSIBLE to send FLASH or Moving images in an EMAIL??

[DarkFudge2000]

Guys Im really stuck in a bind....my boss wanted me to create a simple little presentation that would run when people opened up their email in Outlook. I created a simple 25 second intro in Swish ( a Flash type program ) The intro just has Text fade in from a dark background while some basic sound in a wav format loops.......its real simple and I had SWISH export the file in 2 formats. In .HTML format and in .SWF format. But now I really dont know how to INSERT it into an EMAIL so that it automatically plays when people recieve the message. Outlook keeps wanting to just send the presentation as an ATTACHMENT!

Is it even possible to do???


Using Windows 2000 and Outlook 2000.

created the presentation in Swish and exported it into 2 different formats .swf and .html


Can someone PLEASE help me out with some info...sorry to post this here and in Software apps but I didnt know where it really should go best


thanks alot

 

[spyordie007]

yes, put the swf on your web server and send them HTML emails which embed the flash movie.

Keep in mind that a lot of mail clients arent going to support SWF though; I would reccomend that you stick with JPGs and GIFs for your animation.

 

[spyordie007]

BTW, this question would be better suited in the "Software - Appications, Programming..." forum rather than in Operating Systems as this has nothing to do with operating systems.

 

[CTho9305]

Originally posted by: spyordie007
BTW, this question would be better suited in the "Software - Appications, Programming..." forum rather than in Operating Systems as this has nothing to do with operating systems.

He tried highly technical too

Anyway, I doubt you have to put it on a webserver (although that would be easy). Attach it, and reference it from the email's HTML body the same way attached images are inlined into emails. I don't remember the syntax, but am pretty sure you can do it with images, and therefore, given Outlook's retardedness, probably things like flash files or java applets

 

[Abhi]

Animated gif?

 

[n0cmonkey]

God that would be annoying to get in my email.