Initialization Cells in CDF

Question

I am wanting to run about 15 pages of initialization cells in a CDF, but can't seem to do so. I have set the InitializationCellEvaluation to True and InitializationCellWarning to False, but it doesn't work in the CDF. (works just fine in the .nb) I saw something about the NotebookDynamicExpression, but I wasn't sure how to run a ton of code through it.

Are there any alternatives? I use no Manipulate or Dynamic functions in my code either. For example...

GenerateDisplayShotsFor := 
  Quiet[Button[
    Style["GENERATE", Bold, FontFamily -> "Terminal", 20, 
     Background -> LightBlue], 
    CreateWindow[
     DocumentNotebook[DisplayShotsFor, WindowTitle -> "Shots For", 
      WindowFrame -> "ModelessDialog", 
      Background -> RGBColor[48/240, 164/240, 220/240], 
      Editable -> False, TextAlignment -> Center , 
      WindowFloating -> False, 
      WindowMargins -> {{0, Automatic}, {Automatic, 0}}]]]];

Answer 1

It's probably a good idea to look at this question more more information about writing CDF-happy notebooks. In brief, Initialization cells won't function properly in the CDF format. For example if we have the following initialization cell:

a = 1;

And subsequent cell that is not an initialization cell

Manipulate[b + x, {x, 1, 10, 1}]
Manipulate[a + x, {x, 1, 10, 1}, Initialization :> (a = 1;)]

The first Manipulate will not evaluate b when exported in CDF format. All of your initialization needs to go in the Initialization option of Manipulate in this case. As mentioned in the question references above, this seems to be the easiest way to get initialization into a CDF, even if Manipulate is not being used.