Converting SWFs to EXEs

Question

I\'m building a program in Actionscript 3 and would like to convert the .SWF file to an EXE without using Flash Pro CS5. I found http://swf-to-exe.com/ and it works well, b

Answer 1

Adobe AIR is the standard solution for packaging SWF applications natively. The AIR SDK is freely available and includes the mxmlc compiler which will compile .as to .swf, and the adt packager will package your SWF and assets for Android, iOS, Windows, and OSX.

It looks like you want to bundle natively for Windows to produce an executable. Do you have a programming environment? You may want to check out the free Flash Develop IDE.

Ah, so you are using Flash Develop... Good, onward.

In Flash Develop, I created an "AIR AS3 Projector" type project named DesktopTest. I then modified the Packager.bat file according to the article I posted above. Change the OUTPUT and call adt lines and leave the other lines of the file in-tact:

set OUTPUT=-target bundle %AIR_NAME%

And:

call adt -package %OPTIONS% %SIGNING_OPTIONS% %OUTPUT% %APP_XML% %FILE_OR_DIR%

You then need to run CreateCertificate.bat once (right-click, execute). After that, compile your project and run PackageApp.bat. For my project named DesktopTest, this results in a DesktopTest sub directory that is my compiled app, with a DesktopTest.exe in it.