I have received various comments about my last article and since there is a huge lack of information on this subject online I have decided to add to my last article about Macromedia Breeze Presenter.

This article is continued from: Breeze Presenter (part 1)

There was a question as to how to replace the Macromedia logo that exists in the bottom left or right depending on the view you use. This is accomplished by modifying the XML. There are a few steps we need to go through first to do this.

I am assuming here that you have already published your presentation. If you have not, you should publish it now. Publish Locally for our purposes here.

Creating your logo

Now what I did was to create a logo file that was roughly the same size as the space. I used Flash to create my logo and I used the dimensions 113x44. You should try and use a logo that doesn't have a background so that you will pick up the colors of the Breeze Navigation bar under it.

After you have created your logo in Flash you need to make it a part of your presentation package. The easiest way to do this is to put it in the "data/resources" folder in your published presentation. This is the same folder that is used if any documents are attached to your Breeze presentation.

XML Modification

When finished putting your logo file in the "data/resources" folder of your breeze presentation you need to modify the XML.

You do this with a line of XML that is found in "vconfig.xml" file. This file is a part of every theme that either comes with Breeze Presenter or is one that you create. For example you should edit the XML in a file you just published:

Find this line in your "vconfig.xml":

This is the line that we are going to change.

Inside the quotation marks for "value", you should reference your newly created logo. For example purposes I am going to call this "logo.swf". For "value" you should put the path to our logo file. You will end up with an entry like this:

Now open your presentation and you should be looking at your shiney new logo where the Macromedia logo used to be.

Other Options

Another option would be to create your own theme and modify the "vconfig.xml" file that is part of that new theme. Then you would have to put your "logo.swf" file into the "data/resources" folder after you publish.

The XML file in the Theme and the XML file that gets published are almost identical. Thus you can create your own theme that can be used over and over again.

I will continue to comment on different aspects of my customization efforts as my time allows. If you have a question, enter it as a comment below and I will probably base a blog entry off of it.