Mac Projector file that autostarts

How can I place a Mac projector file on a CD or DVD and have
it
autostart when placed in the mac?
Thanks.

It is not possible.

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Mac projector file looking for movie

Hi
I am using Director 11.5 and am having a problem with the Mac projector file.
I am creating the files on a PC. I then copy the file across to the Mac.
When I load the file and click on the first linked file it can't find it and keeps asking for the file.
I have checked and double checked that the file is there in the Publish settings and that I have spelt it correctly.
However everytime I click it asks for the Movie.
Any ideas?
Thanks
Graham

Hi Graham,
1) How sad that no one has answered this post yet... I used to love Director but am now so disillusioned with the lack of documentation and support for it... that being said...
2) I'm certain this answer is too simplistic to be helpful, but without knowing any more about your settings/etc., I can only offer the most obvious response: is there any chance that the path is the problem? Is the movie linked by an absolute path? When it asks for the movie, does it show a path (e.g., one that's on your pc but not your mac) where it's looking. I remember using relative paths with Director 8 and having to change the path to an @ to denote that it needs to be relative. That's my best guess for now.
I hope that it helps just to have received a response, if you're even checking this post anymore... it has been a while since you wrote it.
Best of luck... maybe it's time for all of us to move on to something else...

Mac Projector files aren't publishing after months of working fine

I've published Mac projector files and .exe file from Flash CS4 for several months without issue. For the past week when I've published Mac projector files the .app icon appears on my desktop but when I try to play the file the dock opens but the file doesn't play. Any Mac projector files I published prior to this problem play fine.
I've tried creating a new .fla file and have reinstalled Flash but I'm still having the problem. EXE files and SWF files play fine. Also, the Mac projector files publish at about half the file size they did before this problem, while the EXE and SWF files are the same size.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Luke

There is a workaround solution I've found online.
When publishing your Mac projector file, also publish the movie as an SWF. Name the SWF file: movie.swf
1. Hold down the Control button and click on your Mac Projector file icon.
2. Select Show Package Contents from the menu.
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.exe projector file for PC works fine, but extracted .hqx for Mac won't open when on CD

I'm using Flash MX, AS 2, Projector 6, working on a PC.
I saved two versions of my project -- one .exe for Windows and one .hqx for Mac. The .exe works fine when burned onto a CD. When opening the .hqx from a CD on a Mac, I got a message that the file is on a locked volume. I discovered that the reason for this is that an .hqx is essentially a zipped file which has to be extracted, and when a file is extracted, the unzipped files are written onto the same location as the original. When the original files are on a CD, Stuffit (Mac's zip extractor program) can't write onto that location.
[So if anyone at Adobe looks at these forum posts, let me say that I think its absolutely ridiculous that the Mac version of Flash's projector files have to be extracted in order to be viewed!]
To get around this problem, I saved the .hqx on my PC, put it on a portable hard drive and brought it over to a Mac (because Stuffit for PC converts it into an .exe for PC), and unzipped it. When I'd test it on the portable hard drive or on a USB drive, the extracted file would work. When I'd bring it back over to the PC and burn a CD with both versions on it, and then test that CD on the Mac, it wouldn't work. Can anyone tell me why the extracted Mac version works on a hard drive, but not on a CD? What do I have to do in order to make a Mac projector file work from a CD?

Windows uses the FAT file system, Macs use the HFS file system. The two are not compatible. If you save a Mac projector file on a FAT file system, it won't be saved properly and it won't work. When you create a Mac projector from a Windows version of Flash, the file will be saved as a compressed .hqx file.
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Fscommand exec on mac to open pdf works in a cs3 projector file but not in a cs5 projector file

Hi,
I could succesfully open a external pdf with the following command in Flash cs3 on a Mac:
fscommand("exec", "test.app");
test.app (inside an fscommand folder) is an apple script that opens the pdf inside the fscommand folder, to make it work I needed to copy the fscommand folder into the MacOs Folder of the Mac Projector File. The same steps don't seem to work with Flash cs5. I can't downgrade my cs5 project to cs3.
Is this problem a bug in Flash cs5?
Has anyone solved this problem?
Thank you.

I had this same issue today - could not get a mac projector, FP 10, built in cs5, to run fscommand("exec", "test.app") no matter what I tried. I also couldn't find any definitive threads via google, so here's everything I know about fscommand("exec") for anyone who's looking.
I wanted to run a custom batch (.bat) file on windows and a custom applescript file on mac. I needed to restart a legacy, cross-platform kiosk application on a click (unfortunately could not use AIR).
On the Mac (Flash CS5) - First off - Flash CS5 on Mac did not work no matter what I tried
I also tried opening up the .app package contents and copying the fscommand folder into that, with no luck.
You have to create the projector in CS4 (I down-saved to CS4 and used my PC running CS4 to publish) and put the "callee" .app in a folder named fscommand alongside the projector.
I used these directions to create an .app of my applescript that restarts my projector: http://soapbox.lafayette.edu/node/517
Here's the applescript I wrote:
tell application "kiosk"
    -- kill the "caller" app if running
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end tell
set myFile to (path to me)
tell application "Finder"
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end tell
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fscommand("exec", "restart.app");
on a mac, my kiosk restarts as expected.
For PC peeps, I used this awesomely simple solution on windows (Flash CS4)
http://www.northcode.com/blog.php/2007/08/07/Conquering-FSCommand-EXEC-Part-1-Proxy
I put two files in my fscommand folder (at the same directory level as my projector):
- restart.exe (proxy.exe from above link renamed)
- restart.bat
The .bat file simply has 1 line that starts my projector (in the parent folder):
..\kiosk.exe
I call
fscommand("exec", "restart.exe");
and then have a 1 second timeout to kill the first "caller" projector. I wrapped the function as it didn't seem to work otherwise:
setTimeout(function(){fscommand("quit");}, 1000);
Yes, this means that I have two instances of the kiosk running at the same time for about 1 second.
Apologies if my response was slightly off-topic, but I hope the info helps someone avoid losing a whole evening on a pressing deadline like me!

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projector files that would play full screen & centered. They
would not have any Windows or Mac window borders with the
minimize/maximize/quit buttons on them. I've just installed
Director 11 & now when I output they now include this. I can't
seem to find the switch that would shut this off. Anyone out there
know where it is? Or does it even exist? I create Director
animations for use in the film production industry for playback to
camera & we cannot have any visible signs of either OS on
camera.

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and go to the Display Template tab. On there, uncheck the
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OS 10.5.6 user---When I create a Mac Projector with via Publish it has a greyed icon with a greyed warning (not useable). When double clicking on it I get a message ' You can't open the application "name" because it is not supported on this architecture.' Also when playing a swf doc (non-Projector) made from the same file the wide pans (about 500k in size) pans sometimes come up on my screen as simple red boxes with no picture in them.
OS 10.4 user---My colleague can make a Mac Projector via Publish using the same settings as I use and all is fine, and it is the same size as the unusable file I create (above). He then zips the Mac Projector file and ftps it to me. When it is unzipped his Mac Projector files plays fine on my computer (the OS 10.5.6 above).
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Don't create a special folder or volume. Don't move the folders. Don't rename the folders. Let Adobe install install its software at its defaults. If you must have the software in a different location, create and use aliases instead. Or put your Adobe apps in the Dock. That is the probably the most reliable way to install, update and manage Adobe apps.
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Director 11 - Publishing Mac Projector from Windows

When publishing a Mac projector file from Windows XP, the
files created do not function correctly when I test them on a
Macintosh computer (OS 10.5). Even though I publish as a projector,
the application is not self running and will display a message that
Shockwave is required to run the program. The program will run
properly on Macintosh computers that have Shockwave installed.
It seems that the files that are created in the Frameworks
folder (within the .app/Contents folder) have data in their
resource forks and this gets stripped off on the Windows system. I
thought Director 11 had resolved this issue so that you could
publish a cross-platform projector that would be ready-to-run.
If I move the .app folder to a Mac and replace the Frameworks
folder with a Frameworks folder that has been created with Director
11 on a Macintosh system, the program runs correctly without a
Shockwave install.
Has anyone else run into this, and if so, is there a fix for
it? I need to be able to publish both Windows projectors and Mac
projectors from my Windows system.

Hi Phil,
thanks. You're right, it's impossible to set icon or background image, but it seems to work stable.
Do you know, if the D11.5MAC-generated projector works under MAC OS 9 / WIN95/98/NT/2000/Vista/7?
I feel sorry for you because of the UDF file system. Therefore I have no idea.
But apple has changed the way how files are connected with their applications. You can now (since 10.5) define that all files with a certain file extension has to be opened with a concrete program. But I also know that it doesn't work correctly in all cases. So may be it has something to do with that instead the way how the ROM is read with 10.5+ opposed to 10.4
Am 11.12.2009 um 16:20 schrieb PhilGibson:
From what I understand, the "Mac & PC" option in Toast will make a disc that is pretty much compatible with most OSs.
It allows you to specify separate files for the Mac and the PC side of things. What it doesn't do is let you set icon layout or a background image for the window, like the Custom Hybrid option does.
I've personally used "Mac & PC" discs on Mac OS X 10.4-10.6, Windows 98 SE, XP, and Vista with no issues.
This is great if it can solve you problems. I just wish there was a solution for making the Mac projectors work as ROM content on DVDs (UDF volumes), which is what I'm working with 75% of the time as of late. It's primarily 10.5 and newer where the issue pops up, as Apple seems to have done something with how the ROM portion is read with 10.5+ as opposed to 10.4.
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Import does not recognize old image files that have no extension

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You can manually add an extension to the file (and respond to an "are you sure?" dialog). Then the file will be seen and accepted.
This is extremely dangerous (and painful to manually correct) since you think you are seeing all images in the import box, but you are not.
In fact, I deleted huge image directories after having satisfactorally (I thought) imported them into Aperture many months ago. Most of the old extension-less files had been updated and did have extensions in later versions. However, I missed one important image and looked everywhere for it.
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Does anyone know a better way -- to get Aperture to recognize extension-less images? If not, this needs to fixed in the next version as it is a disaster waiting to happen.
Tom
Dual 2.7Ghz G5 ATI Radeon X800 XT 2.5 GB ram Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Well there's an idea...probably would need to go into Bridge <g> to do that most efficiently .. or Automator.
It turns out that I already had added extension to most (but not all) images in my main image directory and so they got into Aperture alright. I just have to go through all the images in the backup I just found (where many did not get extensions) to find the ones that Aperture missed. So far, there have been just a couple more...
The real problem is that Aperture should not be missing these, even if they are archaic. At the very least, Aperture's import should give a warning that there are files in a folder that it is not going to import AND is not even showing. Otherwise this is a serious gotcha!
Tom

Streaming video in a projector file

Hello - I created a projector file that has a section with streaming video. For some reason, it automatically goes to fullscreen when I go to this section. What do I do to make the video NOT play in fullscreen, but just staying within the stage exactly how I placed it? any help is greatly appreciated.

"chudson17" <[email protected]> posted in
macromedia.director.basics:
> Thanks. Any advise to get the video to play on another
computer
> (assuming they have QT)? I thought I read that you could
put a version
> of QT to download from the projector as well. Is that
possible?
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search for past posts in here to avoid the dreaded "Where
is..." dialog.
You can include the QT installer on the CD if you sign and
comply with
Apple's free Software Distribution Agreement.
http://developer.apple.com/softwarelicensing/agreements/quicktime.html
Or you could simply make it a requirement for the CD and
supply a download
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Mark A. Boyd
Keep-On-Learnin' :)

Linking projector to another projector file

Hi
I really need help with this one and I'm not very advanced
when it comes to actionscript, so fairly simple solution would be
great. I created a projector file that's going to serve as a
presentation. This exe presentation contains buttons. How can I
link a button to another exe file so that it opens in another
window? I also would like to know what action I need to give my
other buttons to link them to pdf and video files? I've looked all
over and can't seem to find any solution.
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Projector File trouble

Hi
I have about 5 seperate swf files that come into my main when
buttons are clicked, I want to create one projector file that plays
them all, do you know how do i do this?
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