Loads of thanks to Tab, Rob and Ryan,
(Tab Julius)
> Well, you don't embed Xtras in a Shockwave movie, and that's
> probably where
> the misunderstanding comes in.
I think this is where I got mixed up thinking I can embed the Xtras: (D7
online help file)
"The Shockwave player includes the Xtras that support the most common
features and media types. These include text; Flash; BMP, PICT, JPEG, and
GIF file importing; sound management; and Shockwave Audio."
The text (which is an embedded font) seems to be working, but the file
importing is definitely not working - linked jpegs are not visible, and the
GIF Xtra is failing to innitialise.
Also, I opened one of the dcrs that got installed with director
(credits.dcr) and it was also having trouble innitialising the animated gif
Xtra, which I found a bit odd.
Now that I look at it again, the other Xtras (such as flash) in that movie
seem to be working fine. Does that mean I have a corrupted animated GIF
Xtra?
> On Shockwave you can't bind in the Xtras to the movie. When
> you create a
> .DCR file, it's just the movie only. So what if you have
> some additional
> Xtras that you need in order to properly run your content?
> They would have
> to be identified and downloaded. They also need to be
> packaged up for
> Shockwave delivery. Sometimes this is done by the developer,
> other times
> it would have to be done by you. The packaging certifies
> that the Xtra is
> really from who it's supposed to be (a security deal).
Would any Xtra that came from Macromedia and/or was declared as "shockwave
safe" be already pre-packaged? If not, what do I need to do?
(Robert Wingate Wrote)
>Shockwave movies
>use Xtras that are installed at the system level, within the
>shockwave->xtras directory. If they're not there initially,
>they need to
>get there via downloading or installing, and they need to be
>shockwave-safe
>in order to work.
Does that mean you can put them into an Xtras folder in the same directory
as the Dcr, the same as with projectors?
God, I sound/feel like such a newbie! The trouble is, my company is almost
solely Kiosk based (Museum and Heritage), and we never had to deal with
shockwave (one or two movies in the past few years, all sans-Xtras)
I'll try Ryan's solution with the networking prefs (the _are_ empty right
now), and hopefully that will solve it. Fingers crossed..
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