Re: FLASH: CD Rom production - Director is so bogus

[John Dowdell]

At 5:05 PM 5/10/0, Jefferis wrote:

>You need to buy Director for both Platforms to output it to CD ROM?  That

>is so bogus.

>Do you have to do that for the web too?

>Every other program I use extensively outputs for dual platforms.  IS

>this a scam? or what?


More like "what". ;-)


If you're creating a PC application, it really helps to be on a PC

yourself. Otherwise it's like driving a car in France, while you're still

in your living room in Kansas... hard to quickly get appropriate feedback,

know what I mean...? ;-)


Director's standalone Projectors are tuned to the content at hand...

besides including the platform-neutral movie files, they can include a

range of platform-specific extensions for database access, new media or

display options, 3D abilities, etc. It's hard to make customized single

EXEs on some other platform.


If you're determined to be cash-cheap and time-rich, you can use what's

called a "stub" projector that just branches to your first movie. All your

platform-neutral movie files would be outside this stub, of course, and you

couldn't customize the set of Xtras, or hide your external libraries, but

that's one way to do it in a low-capital way. You'd find it mandatory to

actually test your work as you go along, though, particularly on a _range_

of typical delivery machines.


You could just as easily search the technotes for this info, though... I've

been typing it for years, nothing new here. If you'd prefer to hear it

*not* from me, then post the same rant on DIRECT-L, and you'll hear the

exact same thing, although probably with a bit more color and vigor.... ;-)


jd






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