Director 12 xTras

Does anyone know of a list of Director 12 xtras?
Specifically I am looking for a bluetooth xtra and a serial xtra.

HI!
The stuff I create for disabled kids relies heavily on Xtras so I'm pretty intimate with them. And I'm updating my 10 Mac titles to OS 10.7 and above (post PPC) now so I needed to use Dir 12. The Audio Xtra doesn't work on the Mac side but still does on the Win side. BudAPI still works fairly well (a few functions don't work) on the Mac side and works fine on the Win side. The Flash, Text, FileIO that come with Dir 12 all work fine on both sides. Those are the primary ones I use. To my knowledge, there is no "Bluetooth" Xtra, although that's not really describing exactly what you want?
But on the iOS side of things, nothing works. We have been after Adobe to follow up on the documentation they provide on building iOS Xtras and are very close, but their support of Director these days is almost non-existent. I can chat with someone that seems to know what he's talking about, but in 2 issues so far (the Xtras and getting any keyboard input into an iPad Dir app) have not been resolved.
I'm hoping others with Xtras aspirations for iOS will help me to raise a flag for Adobe to simply have Dir 12 do what they own docs say.
So if anyone out there is hoping for a simple solution to creating iOS apps, and realizes Dir 12 actually does a great job of it, but needs some other features that used to be in Xtras, we will share out information about making your own Xtras, if Adobe ever helps us!
RJ

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supurdupur wrote:
> Using a director XTRA in flash actionscript: possible or
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not possible
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system. How can I do with xtra. The director xtras for mac doesn't
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thank you very much,
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creating a
Shockwave projector then publishing on a Mac for Windows
should work
fine. But be sure to test it on Windows (perhaps under
Parallels) when done.

Password Protect Part of a Director Movie

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appreciate any advice. I have never used Lingo before and this is most likely where it will be heading....
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Richard.

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AmegoSam wrote:
> Thanks for the info. Does anyone have any clues on why
Adobe do not have the
> Xtra Packaging Kit on their online stores, and make no
mention of it anywhere?
> It seems like they have abandoned the idea of people
publishing xtras (a sign
> of their unwillingness to continue supporting
Director?).
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Kit and I followed up
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Director and
Shockwave from a Macromedia product to Adobe. The transition
to Adobe has taken
longer than expected because of things like neglect from
Macromedia, old codebase,
new Operating Systems... From my understanding, once the new
XDK is fully updated
to be compatible with all OS's, it will make its way back
onto the site. This will
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Director 11.
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Is it possible to Embed Youtube Widescreen windows full options on Flash CS5 AS2 Website?

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2. Use a Director projector. There are Director Xtras that can control the file system, and you can embed a SWF in Director. So you wouldn't have to recreate the SWF content, you'd only need to have Director and learn some basics about using SWF and making projectors.
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Setting mouse position

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> But, if I use Shockwave in a browser, must the user
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http://www.director-xtras.com/xtra-move_cursor.html>

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Apologies for the cross post.
We have a project that is running on Mac and PC, swf's that
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ck

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Saving details

Greetings all, im half way through making a prototype of my
fitness program, the content and things like that are fine and even
how to do the scripting inside it should be no real problem,
basically the program should be able to save detail like the
obvious thing, name, age, username, password etc, and iv already
received help on how to do passwords, but its more a case of where
the details get stored, i was originally planning on using the
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told to look into either fileIO or using a web server to store the
details, then the program could call the data from there and for
example, check if a users log in name matched their password etc.
the main problem is that im useless when it comes to server stuff
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side of it would make my program more robust, but i also dont want
to get in over my head.
i was wondering what method you would recommend for this kind
of procedure and possibly just as importantly if you know of any
websites/books with tutorials to follow on how to do it.
as a smaller but less important notes, what would be the
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them yet, is there a very basic way of doing it without plug ins?
and finally can director email people? for example if a user
forgets their password could it email them?
thanks greatly for any help or advice anyone can give
Moza

For storing data on the web you may want to look at the
following post, you may also want to investigate the v12 xtra. That
having been said, at least in my opinion, storing user data on the
web, while it may sound like a cool idea, is going to be vastly
more complex (read time consuming and expensive) vs storing data
locally using something like FileIO or BuddyAPI.
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=187&threadid=1341973
For emailing: gotoNetPage("mailto:[email protected]") is easy
and doesn’t require any xtras but it spawns a blank browser
window in addition to the email client which you might not like.
BuddyAPI’s baOpenURL will do the same thing without spawning
the browser window. I’ve also used DLLbinder with a MAPI dll
which is cool but only works if you’re 100% certain your user
base will have a MAPI compliant email client (ie: Outlook, Outlook
Express, and maybe some clones). Note however, in all of these case
all you’re doing is launching the email client and spawning
an email form and possibly pre-populating some of the fields
… which means you’ll be showing the password in the
message body, what you are probably looking for is a transparent
email which none of the solutions above can implement*…
To implement the familiar emailed password you see on some
websites I think you’re either going to need an xtra (if
Director is emailing) or a server script if the data is stored
remotely. For a Director xtra solution I found directEmail easy to
use and capable but there are others. If you are using an ASP
server solution you can read up on CDONTS and/or CDOSYS for email.
You don’t need a lot of ASP experience to get something like
that to work, I put together a project a few years back where
Director sent data to an ASP server and the server constructed the
email and sent it out. I got most of the ASP code I needed from
Google searches. If your server is PHP or Cold Fusion I can’t
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*Strictly speaking the MAPI solution can email transparently
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