Just curious, in the old days, when there was 16 and 32-bit code, on Windows you had to have separate Xtras, but on the Mac we could make a hybrid Xtra. I forget nowadays exactly how we did it, but it was on the order of embedding the 16-bit code as a resource, maybe? It's been so long that I've forgotten, but I wonder if anyone's experimented to see if you could do the same thing - have both carbonized and non-carbonized code in the same Xtra. This is a discussion better left for mmxdk-l, but I'm just tossing the thought out.
- Tab
At 11:56 AM 12/2/02, Thomas Higgins wrote:
All,
OSX projectors only launch on OSX, OS9.x projectors only launch on OS9.x, there are separate sets of Xtras for both platforms (Director MX on OSX includes all your OSX Xtras and all your OS9.x Xtras). You can create a bundle which contains both projectors (the 9.x version in a sub-folder to keep the Xtras separate) and then configure that bundle such that if your user is on OS9.x and they click the bundle a shorcut will trigger a launch of the OS9.x projector, if they are on OSX then the OSX projector will get launched. One file containing both projectors...
The above bundling technique doesn't work on all pre-OSX systems, I believe that only OS9.x understands bundles, pre-9.x will see the bundle as a folder instead. We are planning to post an article in the Design & Developers center on macromedia.com that outlines this technique so you can provide a better end user experience.
Cheers,
Tom
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