Downloadable .Swf?

How do I make it so that my flash saves a .swf copy of itself onto the desktop of the player? Basically, how do I give the “Save As..” command from inside the flash?

You don’t save as a swf, only as an fla. So the only way to get a .swf from an .fla is to do File→Publish and it will create a playable .swf of the .fla in the folder where the .fla is saved. You can also press Ctrl+Enter or File→Publish Preview→Any of the choices.

Would there be a way to make the gamer download a copy of the game .swf in a zip file then?

Of course. Just zip it up like any other file.

Heh. I knew that. But could a page be generated from within Flash that links to the .zip and effectively downloads it?

You can publish the game as an html page and swf, but there’s not way that I know of to publish something from flash directly into the .zip . Maybe if you opened up the .fla from within the .zip and republished that it would automatically publish to the .zip, I don’t know maybe you’ll want to try that out.

I think I figured it out. Thanks though.

Alright cool, no problem.