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From: jasonLampitt on 27 Nov 2007 23:26
It's been several years since I did a Director project. I took the skills
Director taught me and ventured off into the brave new world of ActionScript
land and have barely touched this old friend until recently when I was asked to
crank out a couple of CD's for a client.

Almost all went surprisingly well. It only took me 15 minutes or so to recall
my favorite passages in the Lingo Dictionary and begin cranking out property
lists and new behaviors but since I've "upgraded" to MX 2004 (my god... are
they ever going to give Director a fresh coat of paint?!?) I did run into a few
hiccups. I'm hoping someone out there will be kind enough to this "old Director
newbie" and give me a few pointers on a couple of items...


1. Fast-Start Projectors on the PC: No matter what I did, I could not get a
shockwave projector (fast-start projector, stub projector... call it what you
want) to run without getting a blasted message to install Shockwave 10. I ended
up having to just create a standard projector. It was still fairly small (2.3
mb) but compared to the stub projectors I used to crank out this one was
gigantic!! Does the old method of pulling out the .dll files and such not fly
anymore? I found a few technotes and such, but none of them seem to be focused
on MX 2004 specifically.

2. Forms: Seemed to me there was a better way to build a Director form back in
the day (5 years ago??) with an Xtra, but the name escaped me. 30 minutes of
Googling pretty much left me with the option of using postNetText. Did I go
completely brain dead on this topic?

Thanks in advance for your reply's

From: johnAq on 28 Nov 2007 01:11
Fast start projectors do work on the PC in DMX2004. The DLLs need to be in the
xtras folder (probably the first level of the xtras folder, not in a
subfolder). IIRC on the mac they need to be in the same folder as the app (that
might be a few versions ago).

Can you provide more info on what you need to achieve with the form?

hth

johnAq

From: jasonLampitt on 28 Nov 2007 21:39
blast... I didn't try just putting it in the root of the Xtras folder... I put
it in a Windows Xtra directory inside the Xtras folder. I'll give that a try.

On the form... I need to take the form data and insert it into an email using
a local email client on the user's computer. Looks like there's only a handful
of Xtras that can actually do that.

From: Tim Dixon on 29 Nov 2007 03:36
Hi Jason,

For Xtras the best resources I find are are:
http://www.updatestage.com/MileHighTableOfProducts/products.shtml
http://www.mediamacros.com/list/type-3/


As for the form, depending on how complex your for is, you could simply
build on on the stage using Directors built in text boxes, check boxes etc,
then use an email xtra to send the data. (There are a couple of free email
xtras listed on updatestage - The more expensive ones allow for better
functionality, like adding attachments, htm,l formatting, and some user
their own built in mail server!).
Most are pretty straight forward - with simple from, to, subject, body (etc)
settings. Just grab the text from your text boxes etc and slap it in the
body!

Hope it helps,

Tim


"jasonLampitt" <webforumsuser(a)macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> blast... I didn't try just putting it in the root of the Xtras folder... I
> put
> it in a Windows Xtra directory inside the Xtras folder. I'll give that a
> try.
>
> On the form... I need to take the form data and insert it into an email
> using
> a local email client on the user's computer. Looks like there's only a
> handful
> of Xtras that can actually do that.
>


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