EXE files no longer link

Hi,
Were are creating a director file and have used buttons with
the "jump to movie behaviour" in order to link between several
different movies and, although though it works with the .dir files,
when we publish the movie to .exe files, the links no longer work.
does anyone know how we can rectify this please?

Hi,
Mike has answered the question but just to expand somewhat.
As Mike said, make your EXE from the start movie and then all
the remaining ones
can be either DIR, DXR or DCR. You'd typically go with DXR
(protected) for an
executable. You can go with DCR (Shockwave) if you want to
compress your content.
Generally, you'd create a stub projector. Here's a tutorial
on this:
http://www.fbe.unsw.edu.au/learning/director/publishing/projector.asp
If you wanted to have a single EXE with all your movies, you
can do that but it is
not recommended as from a speed and memory management point
of view, it's not very
good.
Just one correction of Mike's message. - Once you create a
EXE, it embeds that
movie into the projector. You can rename the EXE to whatever
you like but the
original movie is still locked in there with its original
name. So, you can link to
that original movie inside the EXE without the need to have
the DIR/DXR/DCR
version.
For example say you have:
opening.dir
movie1.dir
movie2.dir
and say they link to each other.
You could create the following for your final delivery and
put them in a new
location:
start.exe
movie1.dxr
movie2.dxr
start.exe is made from opening and the other 2 movies have
been protected.
If you have a behavior inside 'opening' that links to
'movie1', the start.exe will
jump to that movie through the projector. So, you may not
even notice there was a
change. Same thing would happen if you now jumped to
'movie2'. If you now jump back
to 'opening', it will still work even though you don't have
that file. It's because
it can be found inside the EXE.
regards
Dean
Director Lecturer / Consultant
http://www.fbe.unsw.edu.au/learning/director
http://www.multimediacreative.com.au

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