V4MD: When making MAC projector, Xtra error 'can't find the Xtra'

[Sean Wilson]

>Ah, he try create MAC projector on Widows.
>
>We already have discuss that better to use MAC for this.

Of course it better to use a Mac to create a Mac projector. But the fact 
remains that with Director MX2004 it is /possible/ to create a Mac 
projector from a PC. This is useful for developers who may not have a Mac, 
or access to one, or (more importantly) who don't want/need to stump up for 
a separate licence for Director Mac.

If you look in the %Director MX 2004%\Configuration\Cross Platform 
Resources\ folder of your Windows copy of Director, you find split xtras 
for (most) of the Macromedia xtras that ship with the product. It is these 
xtras in this folder (along with the xtrainfo.txt file for name resolution) 
that permits Windows Director to publish projectors for Macintosh. As you 
know, however, the Windows file system can't touch a Mac file without 
damaging it - so the xtras are provided split into the resource and data 
forks and are recombined at publish time *into* the projector.
Again, in order to publish a Mac projector from Windows, a developer needs 
split copies of all the xtras the projector requires. If he/she is using 
Valentina then they'll need a split copy of the Mac xtra for the above 
mentioned folder. I think it is incumbent on Paradigma to provide this 
split xtra to its user base. It isn't a difficult process - I already 
posted a link to a utility that will do it for you; but it *must* be done 
on a Mac.

>In any case you need test your mac projector.

But as you know, you can get your end users to do this for you ;-)

Cheers,
-Sean.