Hi Jan The first thing you need to do is determine whether the xtra is shockwave safe. You may need to ask the company that built the said xtra to determine this. If it is, then they should be able to supply you with a package (a package is a compressed version of the Xtra such as someXtra.w32 or someXtra.ppc). You would then place that package on an http server somewhere and then add an entry into the xtraInfo.txt file located in your director authoring folder. Then if you got the package and the entry right, you can restart director, add the xtra to the project and you will be able to click on the download if needed button. If you are behind a proxyserver then you will need to adjust director's network preferences to be able to see the internet.
Some xtras are not shockwave safe, its a multistep process.. 1). the xtra must (or should) adhere to Macromedia's shockwave security policy (access to local disks etc). 2). the xtra must actually be programmed with the appropriate settings in place to declare itself as shockwave safe. 3). it needs to be packaged using a versign certificate and macromedia's xtra's packaging kit. These 3 steps are done by the person(s) programming the xtra and are not done by the enduser, thus unless you wrote the xtra yourself, you only need to worry about legally obtaining the xtra package, adding the appropriate entry into the xtrainfo.txt file and then adding the xtra an setting it to download if needed. There is no verisign process for including an xtra as an enduser. Sincerely Mark R. Jonkman [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/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!]
