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

[John Dowdell]

At 7:52 PM 5/10/0, Phillip Kerman wrote:

> One thing you didn't mention John, is that to create your own stub

> requires that you OWN a license for both Mac and Windows.


Sorry, you're right, sort of... various folks have generic "go to movie

'intro.dcr'" stubs available online... I usually point folks to Gretchen's

place:

http://www.updatestage.com/products_table.html#Player


You wouldn't have to buy a copy and make your own stub... there are generic

stubs available. (Note the range of Xtras on that page, though... unlike

Flash, Director is extensible, and the vastness of Gretchen's listing shows

why it's not as universal as making a simple EXE from Flash.)


There's usually a followup question here: "Well, why doesn't Macromedia

Support make these stubs available?" I don't do it myself because it would

imply that this is a sane development strategy... no way do I want to be

exposed to "well it worked on my Mac but now on my PC why is the audio

different" and what-all. Call me a scaredy-cat, sure, but I've seen what

happens with the penny-wise approach.... ;-)


jd






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