1) Please don't cross-post. If you want to ask two separate lists, please post two separate messages. Otherwise the cross-traffic of people replying from both lists TO both lists gets to be too much.
2) If you mean the ones that are by Macromedia, like TEXTAUTH.X32 or SWACOMPR.X32, those are often just internal, used by Director, say for text editing or for Shockwave Audio Compression, and you don't need to use them directly. Director started migrating internal functions out into Xtras - this allows them to fix or upgrade a particular area (say, Shockwave Audio) without having to redo/retest the whole product. There are four kinds of Xtras - (1) scripting (Lingo) Xtras, that add commands to Lingo, which you can list by typing 'showxlib' in the message window, (2) Sprite Xtras which you can insert in the cast and place on the stage as a sprite, these live under the 'Insert' menu (typically as media), (3) Tool Xtras, which live under the Xtras menu, and only work during authoring mode, and (4) Transition Xtras which are listed in the transition popup. Most Xtras that you are aware of are usually scripting or sprite Xtras. You can see the functions exported by using the Interface command on a scripting Xtra, as in: put interface(xtra "fileio") which will then list the functions. - Tab At 09:52 AM 3/29/02 +0100, Tom Vandenbossche wrote: >Hi list > >Is there a list somewhere of what the standard xtras in Dir 8.5 do? >some speak for itself (name) but others is just to guess... >tom [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!]
