Director 12 and 11.5 xtras

Has anyone tested Buddy API with Director 12? Does it work for basic file open operations.

We have a commercial product compiled in 12 in the field that uses Buddy API, vList, PrintOMatic and Shell xtras. So far, all appears to work as expected.

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Director 12 and multiuser xtra on .IPA

Hi,
I'm playing with director 12 and I'm having issues with the multiuser xtra on iOS, it seems the xtra is never included in the final .IPA file, everytime I run the app on iPhone I get an alert "xtra multiusr not found"
could someone confirm which xtras are currently suppoted for iOS on director 12?
best
Carlos

Currently xtras can't be added to iOS projects. This is what we have to work with (scripting xtras):
Dynamiks
XmlParser
soundChannel
ActionScriptObjects
fileio
NetLingo
Shockwave3DAsset
ColorRatio
byteArray
Matrix

Director, iOS and the (real) apps development cul-de-sac

Hi there.
I was a long time Director developer and I tried D12 to give it a shot with iOS app development.
After 2.5 months of research, an app submitted to Apple (still "in review"), another in development and a 3D game in its first design I have to summarize my experience.
1.
Developing simple apps and games seems very simple and easy.
Let's say that if the user don't have to interact with the keyboard, or use UI controls, app development is fluid.
2.
If you have to develop something with (even) a little user interface, you get crazy.
You have to re-invent the wheel and in doing it you're doing it wrong.
I developed a simple app, an app that does only one thing, but it does it in a very good way.
I started developing this app because there is no an app that does this thing, today.
First prototype? 4 hours.
Now I'm stuck in handling UI and UX, and I'm going mad.
There's no way to re-produce iOS controls (like radio buttons, checkboxes and fields) without appearing "cheap".
If the user have to insert something with the keyboard you get mad.
If you have the crazy idea to create a scrollable list (with selection) the performances become as slow as hell and the user responsiveness goes away.
I'm so so so sad for this.
I know Director Team is doing something great to bring us Director developers the possibility to easly port games from Shockwave to iOS.
But if you want to develop a real application (or something like that) you actually have no chances to pass Apple quality control.
That's it.
I just wanted to share my feelings with you.
Thanks.

Let me get this straight: I use Director since version 4, I always though that it's an incredible tool for multimedia development.
The dream was (just) using it to deliver iOS apps that can be a little better that the ones done with PhoneGap.
But...
The fact that it's so damn hard to put an app into the iTunes App Store (try not to develop "ad hoc" but for the store) that I think Adobe is just paying a low level rate to the remaining developers, I think that thereare two left, three maybe, and they have to do everything, so they don't write manuals or notes.
Or they just develop Director in their spare time.
Whatever you're doing, I respect you. Just as much I don't respect Adobe, who's gonna charge us for this not-enough-featuring (anymore) product.
One example: if you compile your iOS app for youriPad with the "Otto.app" template there's nothing wrong, but that template is outdated since may 1, 2013, so you cannot use it to upload your app to the App Store.
I'm trying to change all values, one by one, of the .plist included, but no luck for 72 hours (something like 50 attempts), and I'm so mad at it that I'm thinking about pulling the power cable on my (quite simple) project.

Installing Director 11 and Director MX 2004 (10)

On a new PC, I installed Adobe Director 11 and several other
parts of the Master Collection CS3. Due to problems with some
extras that don't run with Director 11, I have to install also
Director MX 2004 (10).
After installing this version, the program can be started,
but it exits without any warning after about 15 secs.
Then, I tried to uninstall Director 11. A messages told me to
'deactivate' the program first. This process failed. I still
uninstalled the program and reinstalled Director MX 2004. No
change, it still won't work.
Does anyone had similar problems? Any suggestion on how to
solve this? All help is appreciated.

Fast answer: no! (utf8 and other file/byteorder-specific
reasons)
Sorry
Aldus

Director 12 and OSX 10.9.4 will this work?

Hi there
just upgrade to and i have install problems
how ever
director 12 and OSX 10.9.4 will this work?
tia
Herman

Yes, Director 12.0.9r149 works fine with 10.9.4.

You should also create directories for and mount any other partitions

Hi,
I've downloaded archlinux-2012.12.01-dual.iso and wrote it to USB. I've booted from that USB and set up partititons using command cfdisk.
/dev/sda5 ==> /boot
/dev/sda6 ==> /
/dev/sda7 ==> swap
/dev/sda8 ==> /home
I don't remember if I've created /mnt or if it was already there. I've created two directories: /mnt/boot and /mnt/home as per instructions:
"https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Installation_Guide
Mount the partitions
We now must mount the root partition on /mnt. You should also create directories for and mount any other partitions (/mnt/boot, /mnt/home, ...) if you want them to be detected by genfstab."
I've mounted /dev/sda6 on /mnt
and now there are no /mnt/boot and /mnt/home under the /mnt
I don't understand what to do now because instructions state that I should create directories /mnt/boot and /mnt/home and mount them but now that I've mounted / on /mnt the /mnt/boot and /mnt/home are not available to mount partitions /dev/sda6 and /dev/sda8
Regards

mount /dev/sda6 /mnt
mkdir /mnt/boot
mount /dev/sda5 /mnt/boot
Then do pacstrap etc. Add /home to fstab before you reboot.
Alternatively you can mkdir /mnt/home and mount /sda8 there too, then genfstab will add the entry in fstab for it for you.
Last edited by Mr.Elendig (2012-12-18 14:27:48)

Director 11 and panoramic (vr)

Dear friends, I've been using 3dvista xtra for some years in
order to include panoramic ( 360x180 degrees) images in my CD's.
Since 3dvista is not supporting 3dvista xtra anymore, I'm
looking for another software that can help me.
3dvista (among others) create projects for flash, but usually
using AS3, and it seems not to be compatible with director 11.
I can also use Quicktime VR (i think) but is there anyother
possibility there?

Nanomedia: Thanks for all, I now have a functional "vr"
movie with some nice effects (such as the vr starts beign a ball in
the middle of the space and then you get "inside" and start moving
with the mouse).
Those are now my next steps (not in necessary order)
1.- When an image is not 180x360, but 100x360 (for example)
I need to "stop" the camera to show up and down at determinate
degrees.
2.- Hotspots, know in what part of the sphere have the user
clicked.
3.- Try to improve the overall quality
But I think I will start a new thread about all that in the
"shockwave 3d" forum.
Dean:: I'm now working with a lone camera (Olympus e-3 with
an 11:22 lens (former 22:44 at 35mm) and a tripod with a manfrotto
303, it takes me some photos to stitch to create a panorama. Good
for the kind of work that I use to do.
Very nice and spectacular the immersivemedia demo! I have to
talk with some politic-cultural budgets (politics, foundations...)
about here tot take a look on that...
How does that camera goes in dark places (i.e: inside a
church) ?
Thank you for all.
And, please, forgive my not-so-good english.

Director 11 and Actionscript 3

I am having trouble getting some Action Script 3 Flash movies
to run in Director 11. I am aware that you should not use Flash
components and have avoided this. Can somebody point me in the
direction of a comprehensive document explaining best practices for
making Flash AS3 and Director 11 run together? or a list of what
just doesn't work?

quote:
Originally posted by:
Nanomedia
quote:
Originally posted by:
DanTurner
After reading this: "In Director 11 you can import SWF
version 9 files, but you cannot run AS3 routines." I'm a bit
concerned that i'm seeing the exact opposite here....
So AS3 code works but objects / components don't, is that
right? Or is it a rendering problem?
The D11 flash asset xtra is based on flash player 9.0.28.0
You can import SWF version 9 files containing AS1 and AS2
routines.
The flash asset is full functional, but the AVM2 output is
ignored in Director 12.
sorry but I may be a bit confused here..
I wrote all of the code and compliled the flash file using
as3 code in flash cs3, the code executes just fine and outputs
trace commands to directors' debug window that were bound to as3
tween and movieclip events. By 'AVM2 output is ignored in Director
12' do you mean the rendering or all code? If the latter is true
then how come my as3 code is running? Apart from that i do find it
a bit strange that director can use flash as3 components but flash
within director can't.
'edited: a hotfix is expected to be released soon. ' are you
certain about this? I have a large ongoing project that would
benefit from as3 components and as3 code support as I'd like to use
it for all UI elements.

HAVOK, And all other xtras don't work in the Mac version

Just tested the new Director. Another amazing leap forward,
well not, it's the same spot they've been in since 8.5. And
although they effectively keep releasing the same product, in this
version the xtras, Havok included, don't work in the mac version.
They do on the pc. I wonder if this means that the havok based
games won't work in shockwave 11 on the mac. I make games, with 15
million plus a year playing them. It's annoying.
HAVOK, DIRECTxtras, ASFFT and a few others I've tested. Any
other comments?
Also speed wise, 3d is much better but everything else plays
at same speed.

If you are not on a PPC Mac, then none of the PPC xtras will
work until
the developer compiles them as Universal binaries. In the
case of
Havok, that is unlikely to happen, which is why they have the
new Aegia
engine instead. For other 3rd party xtras, talk to the
manufacturer and
see if they have a UB version available. Many of them were in
on the
beta, so they may have new versions up now.

Director Player Error. cays needs Xtra

I'm using a PC with Xp Professional and one of my new applications requires Quick Time. When the program tries to load it comes up with an error Message. Title is *DIRECTOR PLAYER ERROR*.
+This application requires an Xtra (Quicktime) that either does not exist or failed to initialize properly. Please make sure the appropriate Xtras are in the Xtra folder(s).+
I've reloaded all quicktime and itunes software and it still comes up. what are the steps to take to find theses 'Xtra" folders?????

The Xtra is a Director component, not something in QuickTime. If a packaged Director application isn't working and is asking for a Director Xtra, then either the developer didn't properly package the Xtra with the application or they're using one that's out of date for the version of QuickTime you have on your system. Either way you'll probably have to contact the publisher of your application and discuss the problem with them.

Portable Home Directories, FileSyncAgent, and Case-sensitive drives

I have a 10.5.3 Server machine that is serving (via NFS) home directories to a mixed group of Leopard (10.5.3) and Linux clients. The drive containing user home directories is formatted to be case-sensitive. I also use Portable Home Directories and mobile accounts on all the Leopard clients. Many of the client machines have case-insensitive drives.
FileSyncAgent is dying on the client machines with a lot of "Reverification failed" messasges in ~/Library/Logs/FileSyncAgent.log. The files being verified often have mixed case file names, while the error messages show lower case file names.
Anyone else seeing FileSyncAgent dying on every home sync?

Hi Guys, So far I have found what seems to be a fix for this issue. I was also having the issue happen to me around some iphoto file but that seems to be coincidental. I will detail what I did below but please first backup the mobile account on the local machine as you will need to recreate it.
Backup the local mobile home folder
Log into a admin account and delete the mobile account under the Accounts Pane in System Prefs
Log into the users Network account on the notebook
Delete all the following items
~/Library/Application Support/SyncServices
~/Library/Mirrors
~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.syncservices.*
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.filesync.plist
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.homesync.plist
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.LaunchServices.plist
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.syndication.plist
~/Library/Preferences/Syndication
Logout of the Network account and then back in
Recreate the Mobile Account
From this point on I have not seen any issues with the FileSyncAgent crashing. Omit any of the files listed above that do not exist. I generally have the notebooks sync on login and logout and I forced a sync while logged in to make sure everything was okay and so far so good. Hope this helps.

On iPhoto 08 - File Directories, Events and Gallery Support

For sometime now, I have been meaning to better organize my digital photos and share them with my friends and family on the web. I have finally done so, and now I am having a bit of a problem implementing my organization into the new iPhoto, but I am willing to learn about the newest version of iPhoto and figure out ways to make things work. So I have a couple of questions.
One problem I have always had with digital photos is that it is not easy to see when the photo was taken when you are just looking at the photo as a file. I guess my major concern is that the "Date Modified" in the Finder is a little bit misleading on first glance. I want to be able to look at a file and tell when the photo was taken and not when it was uploaded to my computer. So I found an Automator Action that will allow to go back and rename your photos according to the date they were taken. I used the %Y%m%d_%H%M%S date syntax to rename all of my pictures. My thinking was that I would be able to quickly know the date/time the picture was taken in Finder or iPhoto. Someone in the Applescript Discussion gave me a simple script that would further organize the directories my pictures lived in. So now, a photo I have taken today would look something like this on my computer /2008/200809/20080909/20080909_083029.jpg. Now that I have imported my photos in the newest version of iPhoto, I see that Apple has changed the iPhoto directory so that it is not easily viewable.
My first question is what does this mean for me going forward. It looks like my file/directory syntax remained intact inside the iPhoto directory, but how will I continue to add pictures using my current syntax in the future? There are programs/scripts to download pictures from your camera using the same naming conventions I already used for folders and files. Will iPhoto allow me to directly create directories in subdirectories in the iPhoto directory without using iPhoto to download the photos from my computer?
Also, I started using the .Mac galleries right before I started in on my photo reorganizing adventure. Initially I thought it might be a neat idea to have the Albums in the Gallery tied to the syntax of the directories syntax so that my friends and family would have a visual timeline of my kid's growing up. So maybe there would be an album called 200908 where friends and families could see last months pictures, and also see albums of previous months. And when I started using the newest version of iPhoto I realized there is a new element I needed to learn about called "events". I guess because of the syntax of my directories, it has created a new event for every day I have pictures. Is this how iPhoto determines events? I really cannot find much information on this. This is pretty neat, but it does not really follow the exact syntax of my directory system. In other words, there is no way to have events (months) and sub-events (days). Furthermore, I believe there is a limit on the number of Albums you can have in your .Mac gallery, and I am assuming that I would go over this if I created an Album for everyday that I had pictures. I realize that I could probably create Smart Albums in my iPhoto so that I had pictures from a YYYYMM folder, but it seems like a lot of extra work. Should I change my directory syntax to %Y/%Y%m/%Y%m%d_%H%M%S.jpg (i.e. 2008/200809/20080909_083029.jpg) so that events are represented as months and not days? Or is there another way to achieve limiting the number of events and still keep the same organization?
Sorry for the long-winded question, hopefully someone can get me started. Thank you in advance.

Redshark
Do you want to organise your Photos?
Or your Files?
If you want to organise your files, use the Finder - it's exactly what it's for. And all your questions relate to organising Files.
If you want to organise your Photos use iPhoto.
The point of iPhoto is that you organise the pics and let iPhoto look after the files. After you import them to iPhoto, forget about them.
With iPhoto 7 (iLife 08) the old iPhoto Library Folder is now a Unix Style Package File. The change was made to the format of the iPhoto library because many users were inadvertently corrupting their library by browsing through it with other software or making changes in it themselves. These changes include renaming files.
Will iPhoto allow me to directly create directories in subdirectories in the iPhoto directory without using iPhoto to download the photos from my computer?
No. Don't change anything in the iPhoto Library Folder via the Finder or any other application. iPhoto depends on the structure as well as the contents of this folder. Moving things, renaming things or otherwise making changes will prevent iPhoto from working and could even cause you to damage or lose your photos.
The only way to bring photos into the iPhoto Library Folder is via importing them through iPhoto.
Here's the thing: Want to find the photos from a specific date? Use the calendar tool. (Click on the wee magnifying glass in the search window. You can find the pics from a specific day, month, year effortlessly. With Date base Smart Albums you can find all the pics from just about any combination of dates that you might want.
Want to then get to +that pic from 6/5/2003+ Need to email that file? Or want to open it in Photoshop to edit? Or want to upload it to a website?
There are many, many ways to access your files in iPhoto:
For 10.5 users: You can use any Open / Attach / Browse dialogue. On the left there's a Media heading, your pics can be accessed there. Apple-Click for selecting multiple pics.
Uploaded with plasq's Skitch!
To upload to a site that does not have an iPhoto Export Plug-in the recommended way is to Select the Pic in the iPhoto Window and go File -> Export and export the pic to the desktop, then upload from there. After the upload you can trash the pic on the desktop. It's only a copy and your original is safe in iPhoto.
This is also true for emailing with Web-based services. If you're using Gmail you can use iPhoto2GMail
If you use Apple's Mail, Entourage, AOL or Eudora you can email from within iPhoto. With 10.5 you can access the Library from the New Message Window in Mail:
Uploaded with plasq's Skitch!
If you use a Cocoa-based Browser such as Safari, you can drag the pics from the iPhoto Window to the Attach window in the browser.
Or, if you want to access the files with iPhoto not running, then create a Media Browser using Automator (takes about 10 seconds) or use THIS
Other options include:
1. *Drag and Drop*: Drag a photo from the iPhoto Window to the desktop, there iPhoto will make a full-sized copy of the pic.
2. *File -> Export*: Select the files in the iPhoto Window and go File -> Export. The dialogue will give you various options, including altering the format, naming the files and changing the size. Again, producing a copy.
3. *Show File*: Right- (or Control-) Click on a pic and in the resulting dialogue choose 'Show File'. A Finder window will pop open with the file already selected.
So, in a nutshell, you need to decide which your are organising... files or photos.
Events are a Download filtered by date. You can set the paramaters in the iPhoto Preferences -> Events.
Events in the iPhoto Window correspond exactly with the Folders in the Originals Folder in the iPhoto Library package file (Right click on it in the Pictures Folder -> Show Package Contents).
You can move photos between Events, you can rename Events, edit them, create them, as long as you do it via the iPhoto Window. Check out the Info Pane (wee 'i', lower left) the name and date fields are editable. Edit a Event Name using the Info Pane, the Event Folder in iPhoto Library/Originals will also have the new name.
Regards
TD

Director 12 and iOS question

We have a series of about 50-100 Director projects that our science teachers love, but due to intellectual property/ownership of code/providing technical support issues, we have no desire to publish these apps to the iOS App Store. Is it possible to develop these as iOS binaries, use an internal provisioning profile with the Apple Enterprise Developer Program and install these only to devices controlled by the school district? While I love our stuff and would love nothing more to share it, we have no desire to deal with intellectual property issues or providing email tech support for these apps beyond our installed base.

Last time we did something like that....it is possible. However, the provisioning is limited to a certain amount of devices (50?). Also, the provisioning expirs after time (6 months maybe?).
Tkake a look into the Apple App Enterprise Development stuff if you want to do it the official way.

Synching problems between Director 250 and DMP100

I have tried everything I can think of, but cannot get my 250 and 100 to synch. I get the message that the players are not compatible to synch (?) when trying to synch them from the 1000 touchscreen remote.
I have upgraded firmware on my router (WRT610N), DMP and director (which are running 1.16.1). I have tried putting both in the 5 Ghz band, no luck. Then tried on 2.4 Ghz, same issue. They work fine independently.
Any ideas?

Got the issue resolved thanks to some guidance from fellow users. The issue was that the 250 was on sw release 1.16.1 and the 100 was on 1.7.3, despite LELA showing both were at 1.16.1. I found this out when I looked at the release level using the Cisco Media Player app on windows, which showed the correct versions of code the players were really running. I was able to synch the players then from the PC interfaces as well as the remote touchscreen interface. Using this to stream iPOD play lists from my docked iPod, which is great. Now if I could only import those play lists into the Cisco Media Player and build and save play lists in Cisco Media Player.....

Director MX and Vista strangeness

some people have already posted about this problem i know,
but i can't find any solutions (i'm probably too angry to look
properly).
so... i have Director MX 2004 V10.1 and Vista Home Premium.
i've been happily using Director MX to create and edit my files for
the last few months. but today it has decided to stop working. i
can't drag and drop things from the cast to the stage or the score.
i can't move sprites to different channels in the score. and after
a re-install i can't even 'break' the cast window away from the
score window to re-arrange my workspace. but aside from that, it
seems to work ok.
i've installed nothing new. done no windows updates. no
driver updates. i've tried every combination of running as admin,
turning off aero, desktop composition etc. no difference.
can anyone help me please? thanks. +____+ jamie

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machine.
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