Michael, I'm afraid I'm not a great expert on this but if it's any help to you at all, this is a response that our good man Sean Wilson sent me when I had a similar problem working with paradigm's valentina xtra. I was trying to create a mac projector from a pc using mx2004. Hopefully there's something in it that is of use to you:
This whole process is a mess and Macromedia isn't supplying /enough/ information /clearly enough/ for Developers to understand how to go about this. There are 2 issues you're having - the first is obtaining a split xtra to place into your Director MX 2004\Configuration\Cross Platform Resources\ folders. Yes you can ignore the error messages about missing xtras and unstuff your Mac projector on a Mac and manually add the xtra to the xtras folder, but it is supposed to be easier and in fact *is* easier than that. You can create a fully self contained Mac projector on a Windows machine with no need to open the .hqx file on a Mac to do anything other than run it - no adding xtras or any other nonsense. 1). Ruslan (or paradigma) need to provide split xtras. Or a developer with a Mac could do so and send them to you. There is a resource on updatestage for creating them: <http://www.updatestage.com/xtras/downloads/binaryio/splitMacXtra.sit> I don't know if this archive is self-contained or not, but the splitting *must* be done on a Mac (I don't have one available, unfortunately). Once you have obtained the split xtra (V4MD_Carbon.rsrc and V4MD_Carbon.data | V4MD_Classic.rsrc and V4MD_Classic.data - or whatever the correct names turn out to be) you need to place these into the Macintosh and Classic subfolders of the above Cross Platform Resources folder. 2). The next thing you need to do is edit your xtrainfo.txt file to tell Director the corresponding named xtra file to incorporate into the Mac projector. For example, the Windows xtra is named V4MD.x32. One of the corresponding Mac xtras is named V4MD_Carbon.xtr (I'm guessing, as again: I don't have a Mac available to verify). Director needs to know that when it comes time to bundle the Valentina xtra into the projectors, the Windows one is named "this" while the Mac one is named "that". As long as the Mac ones are placed in the correct Cross Platform Resources folder they will be found - the xtrainfo.txt file serves as a lookup list for name resolution. Look at any of the existing entries, FileIO for example: [#namePPC:"FileIO PPC Xtra", #nameW32:"FILEIO.X32"] The #namePPC entry tells Director the corresponding Mac xtra name for the Windows (#nameW32) xtra "FILEIO.X32". Does any of the above make sense to you? If not, sing out and I'll try to be clearer. Again - it *should* be possible to create a self-contained Mac projector on a Windows box, but: you need split xtras (because the Windows file system kills resource forks) AND you need to edit your xtrainfo.txt file. Also, you can't create Shockwave projectors for the Mac - the xtras *must* be bundled into the projector - no external xtras folder. Cheers, -Sean. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [email protected] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
