Macromedia Director

Powerpoint
I'm not familiar with PowerPoint, but I've been asked if a PowerPoint presentation can be imported into Director. We are using Director MX 2004 & I've been unsuccessful in finding an answer. If anyone can help I'd greatly appreciate it. Thanks! ... 19 Sep 2006 10:13

System elements in a projector
Hey, Something I've noticed is that in all my projectors the scroll bars and the dialog boxes all look like the Win95/98 ones, even though I've got a Windows XP system. Strange thing is, when using the stage in Director those elements all resemble the XP versions. I was wondering if there's someway I could set ... 12 Sep 2006 17:11

Gathering User Input and Storing it
Could someone help me with step-by-step instructions on how to do this. I have search the internet and my huge director books for hours for some kind of pre-packaged instructions on getting user text input, but no luck. I have my interface set up and these are the pieces of info I want: User Name (limited ... 9 Sep 2006 18:11

control wmv-video-format?!
Hi! Im using video-clips in the format wmv. The difference between using wmv and avi (except for beeing much more smaller files) is that when the clip has played to the end it jumps back to the first frame of the clip and holds it there. That does not happen with avi. Is it possible with a script or something ... 4 Sep 2006 03:38

Hybrid format Memory Sticks?
I?ve got a client that wants to give away memory sticks (in this case Jump Drives) with a little multimedia project on the stick. They want the project to be cross platform. Putting a Mac and PC projector on the same stick is no problem, but the client is an agency where everything has to be perfect. They?re us... 5 Sep 2006 14:46

publishing error
I have a series of movies that are all linked with 'jump to movie' behaviors. One of the movies will not publish. The error seems to be telling me that there is a template missing in Macromedia\Director MX 2004\Configuration\Publish Templates\MX Templates\!None.html The other movies will publish without this pr... 29 Aug 2006 18:45

wmv problems
not quite sure why this is doing this, but I bring any of the three wmv files that I've created using windows media encoder into my current director project and when I play back, it begins to play, but about midway through playback whipes completely to a green screen. I have a suspicion after hopping around on... 13 Sep 2006 11:03

EXPORTING MOVIE IN DIRECTOR
hi there i have made a movie in director and want to convert this to a movie file so that i can put it into a separate director movie and add movie controls etc...i tried exporting the movie as a quicktime movie and an avi file however when i try to open them again i get the message 'error 2048: the file is not a... 23 Aug 2006 22:42

Projector exe properties
Is there a way to change projector exe, version details to your own company / project details instead of Macromedia, Inc. In projector exe Windows: Right-click > Properties > Version tab Thanks Sam ... 19 Aug 2006 12:13

Transparent buttons
It seemed it [b]was[/b] possible with 6.5. Is it possible to make buttons (or sprites) with transparent backgrounds? I've done a search but so far have come up empty. Getting back into 8.5 after a few years away.Thnx for your help. ... 17 Aug 2006 10:37