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From: forums.adobe.com on 16 Jan 2008 07:23
Hi

I develope director apllications on PC for over 10 years.
Now my customer wants to port couple of applications, made for PC, on mac
platform

As I understand, the problem is to rewrite everything, wat is done with
xtras and script, that contains relative pathes to external files

My questions concerns more to xtras field

Under windows we have just one file *.x32 for an Xtra and call functions
from ist or use its features

But on Mac there are two different files for xtra - one for PowerMac and one
for Intel Mac.

My questions are:

1) do I have to create a version of the project for each Mac platform, and
place in xtras folder just specific version of xtra(PowerMac or Intel Mac)
or can I create one version of project and copy both files into xtras folder
and system will load need file during playback

2) If there are no version of Intel Mac Xtra available - can the project be
started just under Rosetta emulator?

3) Can director application under Mac export and dynamically load JPG
files(which Xtra can be used for this purpose under Mac)

4) Under PC I use budapi xtra for checking if the director application
window is the toppest window and move it to top if it is not. Relevant
funktions are available just for windows. How can be this funktionaliti
realised under Mac

Any Help will be appreciated
Thank you in advance
Game_dev

P.S. Please be indulgent if the questions are not correct or were answered
100 times. I'm realy new to MAC but need information as soon as possible to
make estimation of portation to this system



From: frashjiveturkey on 16 Jan 2008 11:11
It's probably not one for PPC and another for Intel - It's more likely one for
OSX and one for OS 9x (or Classic). OS9 is pretty much obsolete now. Unless the
client really wants it to work on 8 year old Macs you could probably do without
it.

1.) One projector will work with PowerMac and Intel Macs - they just both need
to have OS X.
If you download an xtra it should have a 'Cross platform resource' folder with
the counterpart to your platforms version of the xtra and instructions of how
to paste a line into the xtrainfo.txt file (which is in 'Macromedia
DirectorMX2004\Configuration\'. Or if you're using openXlib to fire up your
xtras I think you'll have to make a corresponding folder for the Mac xtras and
choose which platforms extra to call by using the platform function - check
whether it contains "mac" and then open the right file that way.

2.) As the latest version of Director is MX2004, it pre-dates the Intel Macs
so it's always considered as a PowerPC application - which run fine for me.

3.) You can use buddyAPI to get file names and use regular lingo to generate
new cast members and set the filenames/paths from the ones. Also I set the file
path delimiter by checking the platform property.

if the platform contains "mac" then
delim=":"
else
delim="\"
end if

set Files = baFileList( the moviepath&"graphics", "*.*" )

mymem=new(value(#bitmap), castLib("graphics"))
prevdelim=the itemdelimiter
mymem.name=lname.item[lname.item.count]
mymem.filename=the moviepath&"graphics"&delim&files[m]

This is just snipped from a bigger behavior I'm using, but the nuts and bolts
are there. One thing to watch out for is filename lengths - Mac and Windows
deal with long file names differently - to be on the safe side, keep your
filenames under 33 characters including the extension (I think thats the safe
limit anyway). Otherwise you'll could try using Buddy again to figure out long
and short file names.

4.) Never tried it, but you could maybe do it with _player.frontwindow and
movetofront()


It can be a bit of a headache at first, but once you get used to what to look
out for it gets easier.

Hope this helps






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