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From: deskstar on 31 Mar 2008 15:43
I tried some more CD-Rom formats for distribution of the projector. After the
unsuccessful attempts with Toast's custom hybrid, I gave the basic hybrid MacOS
extended & PC a shot, because I suspected the HFS was too limited for the
player file structure. But no luck here either! This format gives me the old
"This application requires Shockwave Player 11...", message, which is really
weird because the same files, arranged in the same structure, run fine on the
same systems from a USB stick.

Just to pinpoint the problem, I also tried to burn it on a Mac only data disc,
but the projector still asks for the Shockwave player on launch and wont run. I
tried this on 4 MacIntel and PPC systems running 10.4 and 10.5 - always with
the same result. They all accept the USB stick without a hitch.

Has anyone successfully launched a Director 11 projector on a Mac from a CD ?

From: 14thStreetStudio on 29 Mar 2008 14:09
I'm utterly confused.

I've been using D10 for the past four years publishing stand-alone Projectors
to PowerPC Macs from a Windows development workstation ( I did hate the HQX
stuff but I did soon figure that nonsense out).

I just upgraded to D11 expecting a cleaned-up cross-platform publishing
scheme. Now I can't even _find_ the Mac executable(s) !

A tree of directories is created containing all kinds of stuff that I don't
comprehend. The help file isn't helpful on this topic at all.

It isn't clear that I can actually publish a Projector for both PowerPC and
Intel Macs. I naively expected a total of three executables: Intel/Windows,
PowerPC/Mac and Intel/Mac. Is there some clever scheme that I simply don't
understand? Have I bought D11 in error?

Where should I be looking? What file(s) do I need to place on the different
Mac platforms?

From: 14thStreetStudio on 29 Mar 2008 15:19
With a little more persistence I have the Mac Projector running. The tree of
visible directories (sixteen in total) is some 'universal' Mac scheme that
supports both PowerPC and Intel processors along with their respective resource
files. The .app directory extension was confusing for a dyed-in-the-wool PC
user. Perhaps the directory tree should have been given hidden/system
attributes on the PC and a custom folder icon to distinguish it from a normal
directory.

I too encountered the Shockwave non-download saga previously reported. Does
this mean that the Projector is being interpreted and not a 'real' executable?
Is the Shockwave player needed just for some libraries/binaries?

I am glad for the small improvements in the D11 user interface: thumbnails
that keep their correct size; an import dialog box that isn't just a keyhole
view of files and the ability to invoke the script editor by double clicking a
Behavior (how odd that it always worked for Movies but not Behaviors in D10).


From: deskstar on 31 Mar 2008 05:00
After some more testing, I found projectors created on Windows XP are not
working on any Mac system before 10.4. They do work on the majority of 10.4 and
10.5 systems though, but not on all. And where they works, I have performance
issues - with movies that ran perfectly well on non Non-Intel macs in
projectors created from Director 10.

The convoluted directory tree of the new "universal" player is also the death
knell to hybrid CD-Rom distribution. A projector that runs perfectly well from
a USB stick now generates errors when burnt onto a custom Mac / PC hybrid
produced with Toast:
"Director player error - Unable to load movie playlist. Does the .INI file
exist? It must contain a section '[Movies}' with anentry
'Movie01=Pathname.dir'. "
I suspect that the HFS file system that is used in the custom hybrid mode has
limitations which the player with its nested directories violates. The
alternative is to use the "Mac OS extended and PC (hybrid)" mode, but then all
files belonging to the respective other operating system stay visible - quite
an unsatisfactory solution.

From: diruser on 1 Apr 2008 07:05
I tried creating the CD with Mac's default burn software and I could create+Run
the content successfully. I tried running the content from the CD on MacTels
and PCs. Am I missing anything here? Are you doing a standard Projector or a
shockwave Projector? More info would help to analyse the issue.

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