Developers,
Today Macromedia announces a comprehensive update to both Macromedia
Director and the Shockwave Player. This update includes a wide variety of
changes to both the authoring environment and the player, including but not
limited to:
- dozens of bug fixes across the product, including the documentation
- the ability to create projectors for the Classic Macintosh operating
systems from Windows
- a new, "slim" Shockwave Player installer resulting in a download
size nearly 2MB smaller than before, this includes changes to the
Shockwave Player's Xtras auto-downloading mechanism to ensure that
existing content continues to function correctly
Note: we are also providing full installers (these contain all
Xtras)in both executable form and in CAB file form (for
ActiveX auto-installs)
- reduced number of dialogs during the Shockwave Player installation
process for all Windows users and a redesigned installation
completion movie
As of today, September 16th, we are only providing updated installers for
Macromedia Director (in all languages). Within the next week, the Shockwave
Player installers available from the Player Download Center and as part of
the free-licensing program for distributing on fixed-media or in corporate
intranet environments, will be updated to this latest release.
For more information about this release and to download the updated Director
installer please visit the following URL:
http://www.macromedia.com/software/director/special/10_1updater/
For more information about the bugs that have been fixed in this update
release please view the following Tech Note:
http://www.macromedia.com/go/19353/
For information specific to the documentation bugs that have been fixed
please view the following Tech Note:
http://www.macromedia.com/go/19563
In addition we will soon be posting more information about how the changes
to the default set of Xtras in Shockwave will affect developers (they
don't!) and information about how developers can direct users to the
full-install experience if desired. Please look for these in the coming days
in the Director Support Center at
http://www.macromedia.com/support/director.
Thanks,
The Director Team
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