have you followed all guidelines to make a fast start projector on the MM technotes? 
My guess is, although you've excluded the xtras, you didn't excluded the runtime.

1. don't include xtras, instead put them into an xtras folder on the same level as 
your projector. (in mx2004 you can tick the exclude all xtras folder, in MX you'll 
have to remove all the xtras in the modify>movie>xtras (and tick exclude from 
projector)

2. in that same folder put the runtime files: dirapi.dll , Iml32.dll, msvcrt.dll, 
proj.dll (which you can find in your mm director folder somewhere)

3. publish your shockwave movie using the 'shokwave' setting instead of the 'standard' 
setting.

You should now end up with a stub projector that us only a few hunderth Kb big and 
will start faster.

If things STILL go too slow to your liking, you can add an image named exactlly the 
same as your projector (eg.. when it's projector.exe, make it projector.bmp) that will 
show when the projector is loading. You can hide the file to keep the disk layout nice.

To avoid multiple instances of your projector running at once you can (in director 
mx2004) tick the box 'single instance only' or in MX. Make an .ini file named exactlly 
the same as your projector and place that in the same path as the projector 
(eg.projector.ini) and add the lines:

[Settings]
SingleInstance=1

This should cover most of your problems.

J.

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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hermann Brandi
Verzonden: vrijdag 18 juni 2004 16:29
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Onderwerp: <lingo-l> Stub projector starts very slow


Hello! I need help again.

I'm having trouble with the stub projectors for a while now. I think I'm
doing something wrong because I've done a couple of projects using this
technique to make the projector start faster and I haven't accomplished
this.

What I'm doing is to set up a movie following the instructions of Macromedia
for a stub projector but I don't make it work faster. It takes more than 10
seconds to start. Some users with the MX version tried to open the disk
again having two or three versions of the same application running because
this slow start up process. My first movie it doesn't have Xtras (use them
externally) but I register the PrintOMatic MX Xtra and the V12 on that
movie. Will this be the problem? According with the PrintOMatic
documentation I have to put the Xtra on the first movie of the projector to
be properly registered. Is this correct use of the registration process or
I'm doing something wrong.

Thank you in advance.

Hermann Brandi



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