I would guess that 8.5 crashed because of the MX Flash Xtras; 8.5 doesn't support Flash MX.
Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer The Creative Group www.cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kyle Smeby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 11:27 AM Subject: Re: <lingo-l> Re: Binary files > > You must be on Mac, because it loads OK under WinMX now. > > Yup, I'm developing on Mac OS X. I had an OS 9 box just for Director, > but when I got MX we converted that into another OS X machine for our > conference room. This means I could end up developing on our old OS 9 > test machine which is a G3 upgrade (that would really suck). > > Earlier in the project I tried opening the file in Director 8.5 on one > of out Windows test machines. It would open, but it would crash > shortly after that. The only Xtras I'm using right now are FileXtra (4 > on Mac, 3 on Windows), FileIO, and the Flash related Xtras. No MX > specific Lingo that I'm aware of. > > If anyone is curious I am concatenating binary files, and FileIO works > just fine, except for the numToChar(0) or end-of-string character which > truncates the file I'm appending to the base file. If anyone has any > other work arounds for this I'd love to hear them. > > thanks, > > kyle > > [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!] > [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!]
