With the new version if I want to create a projector to run on OS-X using
Director on a Windows platform it will not include the required Xtras for
OS-X in the projector that I publish like it will when making the Windows
projector for example the flash or text asset xtra?
Yes, actually it will. It will publish two projectors, one for Windows (with the necessary Win Xtras) and one for Mac (with the necessary Mac Xtras). You don't get a single projector that can run on both platforms; you get two discrete projectors with their own respective resources.
And if this is the case
then I still need to publish the projector on a MAC if I want to include the
standard shipping Xtras in the projector file for the MAC platform?
No. It acts a little like how Flash does things when you publish a Flash projector for both Mac and Win from the same Flash authoring program.
And if so, how is this different than using a stub projector created on
both platforms and just using a dcr file for the main projector like we do
now with MX and other versions?
You only need one copy of Director on either platform to publish for both. That's a pretty substantial difference.
Or are you saying that creating a MAC projector via the Windows platform
does include the standard shipping Xtras within Director meaning I can send
the compiled projector file to a OS-X user and it will be happy to run.
That is correct.
And it's only 3rd party Xtra's that we have to worry about which would make sense as that's not down to Macromedia.
That is also correct. If you have third-party Xtras (BAPI for instance) you stick your BudApi.x32 file in your Win Xtras folder, and the BudAPI Xtra goes into another Xtras folder that exists alongside it for the Mac side. IIRC the Mac Xtras, on Win, need to be BinHexed, but on the Mac side there are no such restrictions. Thus it makes more sense to use DMX04 on Mac than Win.
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