mac projector from a pc

[Simon Neaves]

Sean,

Thanks for the info.

I followed most of it but must confess that I apparently a bit of a novice.
If I understand you right, somebody needs to create a 'split xtra', and then
everything would be a lot easier. This sounds great, but unfortunatesly my
client has just brought the deadline forward so I'm at panic point right
now!

Maybe I'll get chance to investigate this further at another point.

Thanks again

Simon.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sean Wilson" <snw at paradise.net.nz>
To: "Valentina Developers" <valentina at lists.macserve.net>
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 10:40 PM
Subject: Re: mac projector from a pc


>
> >Thanks a whole load guys, I really appreciate all of your patience and
help.
> >
> >I owe you a pint or two!
> >
> >Hopefully tomorrow I'll get to try all of this out and I'll let you know
how
> >I get on.
>
> This whole process is a mess and Macromedia isn't supplying /enough/
> information /clearly enough/ for Developers to understand how to go about
this.
>
> There are 2 issues you're having - the first is obtaining a split xtra to
> place into your Director MX 2004\Configuration\Cross Platform Resources\
> folders. Yes you can ignore the error messages about missing xtras and
> unstuff your Mac projector on a Mac and manually add the xtra to the xtras
> folder, but it is supposed to be easier and in fact *is* easier than that.
> You can create a fully self contained Mac projector on a Windows machine
> with no need to open the .hqx file on a Mac to do anything other than run
> it - no adding xtras or any other nonsense.
> 1). Ruslan (or paradigma) need to provide split xtras. Or a developer with
> a Mac could do so and send them to you. There is a resource on updatestage
> for creating them:
> <http://www.updatestage.com/xtras/downloads/binaryio/splitMacXtra.sit>
> I don't know if this archive is self-contained or not, but the splitting
> *must* be done on a Mac (I don't have one available, unfortunately).
> Once you have obtained the split xtra (V4MD_Carbon.rsrc and
> V4MD_Carbon.data |  V4MD_Classic.rsrc and V4MD_Classic.data - or whatever
> the correct names turn out to be) you need to place these into the
> Macintosh and Classic subfolders of the above Cross Platform Resources
folder.
> 2). The next thing you need to do is edit your xtrainfo.txt file to tell
> Director the corresponding named xtra file to incorporate into the Mac
> projector. For example, the Windows xtra is named V4MD.x32. One of the
> corresponding Mac xtras is named V4MD_Carbon.xtr (I'm guessing, as again:
I
> don't have a Mac available to verify). Director needs to know that when it
> comes time to bundle the Valentina xtra into the projectors, the Windows
> one is named "this" while the Mac one is named "that". As long as the Mac
> ones are placed in the correct Cross Platform Resources folder they will
be
> found - the xtrainfo.txt file serves as a lookup list for name resolution.
> Look at any of the existing entries, FileIO for example:
> [#namePPC:"FileIO PPC Xtra",    #nameW32:"FILEIO.X32"]
> The #namePPC entry tells Director the corresponding Mac xtra name for the
> Windows (#nameW32) xtra "FILEIO.X32".
>
> Does any of the above make sense to you? If not, sing out and I'll try to
> be clearer. Again - it *should* be possible to create a self-contained Mac
> projector on a Windows box, but: you need split xtras (because the Windows
> file system kills resource forks) AND you need to edit your xtrainfo.txt
> file. Also, you can't create Shockwave projectors for the Mac - the xtras
> *must* be bundled into the projector - no external xtras folder.
>
> Cheers,
> -Sean.
>
>
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