Activation of ancient Director MX 2004 still possible?

Hi --
I'm running windows in a virtual machine and run Director in that environment, which usually works great. However, recently upgraded from Parallels to VMWare, and now unable to open Director MX2004 (which I need to do from time to time for maintenance to old projects). It's asking me to go through activation again, but when I try to enter the info, erroneously says it's unable to connect to the internet. (It is very old activation code I'm sure).
Anyone find a way to activate this old program, or convince the activation code that it's connected to the internet so it can properly accept my serial numbers? Thanks!
-Brad

The activation server no longer exists.
Try this link: Error: Unable to Activate | Macromedia products

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buy Director MX 2004.
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Sorry for my bad English.
I don't understand what do you means to "callback" in your previous message.
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Hi
I'm a Director-developer on Windows
Now I have to port some my projects on Mac
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I could Install Mac OS X Tiger 1.4.7 on it, but now I have a
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Thank you Andrew
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> game_dev wrote:
>> I can not find this option in General section
>>
>> Does this mean that rosetta is not installed on my
PC?
>
> [I know that strictly speaking a Mac is a PC, but could
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>
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>
> Oh, and the current version of Tiger is 10.4.11.
>
> Andrew
>

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about.
The guy in the shop recommended the 64bit since the RAM could
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Any feedback appreciated. Sorry if this is not LINGO related.
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Est-il possible de créer entièrement un site Web
à partir de Director Mx 2004
Je ne connais pas le Flash mais travaille avec Director
Si cela est possible, l'un d'entre vous peut-il me diriger
vers des tutoriaux de cet ordre
merci

marcotab wrote:
> Est-il possible de cr?er enti?rement un site Web ?
partir de Director
> Mx 2004 Je ne connais pas le Flash mais travaille avec
Director
>
> Si cela est possible, l'un d'entre vous peut-il me
diriger vers des
> tutoriaux de cet ordre
> merci
Sans aucun probl�me, des sites m�me tr�s
complexe. J'en ai d�j� fait
plusieurs (de plus ou moins bonne qualit�)
Il n'y a en fait que peu de diff�rences avec un
programme offline
Il faut principalement se m�fier de :
- certaines fonctions, interdite en shockwave-safe (ie
jou� en online par le
plugin shockwave). Il s'agit de prot�ger l'utilisateur
(pas d'acc�s disque
par ex)
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gotonetmovie(url) au lieu de go
to movie "xxx"
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xtras : il faut
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l'xtra (qui n'existe
pas toujours. ex : fileio) et se m�fier de certaines
fonctions un peu
diff�rentes, voire interdites dans cette version
sp�ciale. Lors de la
publication depuis director, il faut aussi lui indiquer
d'auto-charger ces
xtras
- le preload. Certaines choses sont automatiquement
pr�charg�es par le
player, d'autres non. Il faut donc pr�voir le
chargement avant de pouvoir
utiliser ces �l�ments (bitmap li�s,
castlib externes, ...)
- Pour les test, il existe 2 m�thodes.
1 : les �l�ments doivent �tre
obligatoirement dans un dossier dswmedia (et
sous-dossier) pour un test dans director (il y a un
param�tre safeplayer qui
permet de simuler un environnement shockwave dans director)
2 : utiliser un serveur web, style apache, pour tester en
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kjedwards wrote:
> Hi
>
> Does anyone know a link to some documented help on how
to use Director MX 2004
> in AW7 ?
>
> There is mention of using an Active X is this the
Shockwave ActiveX ? If so
> how do I use it to display Director movies?
>
> Help please I am on a trial and need to know if
incorporating Director MX into
> AW7 works ok
>
> Thanks
>
> Kevin
>

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Director is so much more powerful than laying stuff out on the timeline over and over, project after project. I would challenge you to explore Lingo a bit more and learn what possibilities it opens up to make your projects of 3000-4000 labels much easier. We, as humans are natural pattern seekers, and that's where programming can help the most. If we can see the pattern - the repetition - then there's usually code that we can write that gets rid of the manual layout of something of that scale that you describe so that you'd just have to create a few markers and have the code dynamically generate the layout from the data/assets.
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LOL
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