Mac projector looking for shockwave?? from CD

Just got Director 11 for a hybrid cd and all works fine until
I try to run from cd. Authoring on XP and burning standard hybrid
disc on Mac 10.4. with older version of Toast (5). Director
publishes the 2 projectors fine and no problems with pc version.
The mac projector plays fine from hard drive or usb drive but not
from cd. Is this just a hybrid cd issue or something deeper?

Hi BSpero,
I saw the problem with D11. I thought it was resolved in D11.5. I'm not sure if you can create a hybrid DVD - ie. a DVD that reads differently on a Mac (sees Mac only files) as compared to a PC (sees Windows only files).
Here's the Toast page on burning a disc
http://kb.roxio.com/search.aspx?URL=/content/ET6000102&PARAMS=set-locale=en
You can burn a CD so that a PC user sees an ISO-9660 format and Mac users see HFS CD. I'm suggesting you burn/create an CD image that does not have ISO-9660 for the Mac side.
MacImage could be used. See:
http://www.macdisk.com/mimhyben.php3
Hope that helps.
Dean
Director Lecturer / Consultant / Director Enthusiast
http://www.deansdirectortutorials.com/
http://www.multimediacreative.com.au

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Also revealing all your dirty laundry can invite malware authors to exploit those flaws causing problems for their customers.
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And with respect to Desktop access, the Mac OS X community for the version of your Mac OS X operating system would be the best place to start. If resolving that does not fix iPhoto, then taking the iPhoto questions to an iPhoto related community would be best. But I think focusing on why you cannot access your Desktop would be the first thing to do, and making sure that the ownership and permissions of the files in your home directory tree are all as they should be.

Foreach Loop Container with a Data Flow Task looking for file from Connection Manager

So I have a Data Flow Task within a Foreach Loop Container. The Foreach Loop Container has a Variable Mapping of User:FileName to pass to the Data Flow Task.
The Data Flow Task has a Flat File Source since we're looking to process .csv Files. And the Flat File Source has a Flat File Connection Manager where I specified the File name when I created it. I thought you needed to do this even though it won't really
use it since it should be getting its File name from the Foreach Loop Container. But when attempting to execute, it is blowing up because it seems to be looking for my test file name that I indicated in the Flat File Connection Manager rather than the file
it should be trying to process in User:FileName from the Foreach Loop Container.
What am I doing wrong here??? I thought you needed to indicate a File name within the Flat File Connection Manager even though it really won't be using it.
Thanks for your review...I hope I've been clear...and am hopeful for a reply.
PSULionRP

The Flat File Connection manager's Connection String needs to be set to reference the variable used in the ForEach Loop:
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I'm looking for the download for this article
http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/dev2arch/2006/05/declarative-caching4.html
Does anyone know where this zip file can be downloaded from?

Hi,
Thank you for your patience. This developer zone article is now back on the web: Building Intelligent Ethernet-Based Distributed I/O Systems with National Instruments LabVIEW.
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Considering buying a 6D looking for feedback from someone who has one

Looking for reviews of the Canon 6D from users of same

I have t2i and bought 6d about two weeks ago.
I'm still learning about 6d but 6d is better in every aspects.
Worth for the money? Not sure.
My t2i is good enough for my purpose.
If I had no camera, I would buy t2(3,4,5)i over 6d(too much money).
But I would pick 6d over 7d, if I have enough money.
Again, 6d is very solid, powerful camera (for me) .

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my pc cannot find my mac. keeps searching

Format the drive to MS-DOS from the Disk Utility on the Mac or FAT32 if possible on the PC.
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Mac Projector Crashes When exported From Flash CS5.5

Something strange that i noticed, when i had exported a presentation for a Mac,
on a 64 bit windows 7 using flash cs5.5.
the applicaton gets the paths of a few swfs from an XML file
and loads them one after the other.. there is a small bit of interactivity.
.. tested this projecter on various versions of MAC, it crashes often,crashes earlier if i switch applications. what follows here is a part of a report that was generated on an OS X 10.7.3,
works fine if the projector is exported from flash cs5.
i need it to work when exported from flash cs5.5.. any suggestions on what i need to change in my application so that it works when exported from flash cs5.5?
Your help would be appreciated Thanks in Advance
Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x00000000500d98eb
VM Regions Near 0x500d98eb:
Memory tag=240         000000000ebd0000-000000000ec90000 [ 768K] ---/rwx SM=NUL
-->
__TEXT 0000000070000000-0000000070142000 [ 1288K] r-x/rwx SM=COW /System/Library/Components/CoreAudio.component/Contents/MacOS/CoreAudio
Application Specific Information:
objc_msgSend() selector name: orderOut:
objc[9434]: garbage collection is OFF
Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0   libobjc.A.dylib                 0x92115d47 objc_msgSend + 23
1   com.macromedia.Flash Player.app 0x00467d96 main + 240950
2   com.macromedia.Flash Player.app 0x0047efda main + 335738
3   com.macromedia.Flash Player.app 0x002feae2 0x1000 + 3136226
4   com.macromedia.Flash Player.app 0x0033a77b 0x1000 + 3381115
5   com.macromedia.Flash Player.app 0x00462718 main + 218808
6   com.macromedia.Flash Player.app 0x004628b2 main + 219218
7   com.apple.CoreFoundation        0x98e0b3df __CFRUNLOOP_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_A_SOURCE0_PERFORM_FUNCTION__ + 15
8   com.apple.CoreFoundation        0x98e0ad96 __CFRunLoopDoSources0 + 246
9   com.apple.CoreFoundation        0x98e34c68 __CFRunLoopRun + 1112
10 com.apple.CoreFoundation        0x98e3447c CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 332
11 com.apple.CoreFoundation        0x98e34328 CFRunLoopRunInMode + 120
12 com.apple.HIToolbox             0x9289117f RunCurrentEventLoopInMode + 318
13 com.apple.HIToolbox             0x928984e7 ReceiveNextEventCommon + 381
14 com.apple.HIToolbox             0x92898356 BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInMode + 88
15 com.apple.AppKit                0x98fe8a9c _DPSNextEvent + 678
16 com.apple.AppKit                0x98fe8306 -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 113
17 com.apple.AppKit                0x98fe4675 -[NSApplication run] + 911
18 com.apple.AppKit                0x99278261 NSApplicationMain + 1054
19 com.macromedia.Flash Player.app 0x000032a2 0x1000 + 8866
20 com.macromedia.Flash Player.app 0x000031c9 0x1000 + 8649
Thread 1:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.libdispatch-manager
0   libsystem_kernel.dylib          0x97d3f90a kevent + 10
1   libdispatch.dylib               0x99a75c58 _dispatch_mgr_invoke + 969
2   libdispatch.dylib               0x99a746a7 _dispatch_mgr_thread + 53
Thread 2:
0   libsystem_kernel.dylib          0x97d3e83e __psynch_cvwait + 10
1   libsystem_c.dylib               0x9237ce78 _pthread_cond_wait + 914
2   libsystem_c.dylib               0x9232482a pthread_cond_wait + 48
3   com.macromedia.Flash Player.app 0x003ff62f 0x1000 + 4187695
4   com.macromedia.Flash Player.app 0x0001a06c 0x1000 + 102508
5   com.macromedia.Flash Player.app 0x003ff70c 0x1000 + 4187916
6   com.macromedia.Flash Player.app 0x003ff73a 0x1000 + 4187962
7   com.macromedia.Flash Player.app 0x003ff847 0x1000 + 4188231
8   libsystem_c.dylib               0x92378ed9 _pthread_start + 335
9   libsystem_c.dylib               0x9237c6de thread_start + 34
Thread 3:
0   libsystem_kernel.dylib          0x97d3e83e __psynch_cvwait + 10
1   libsystem_c.dylib               0x9237ce78 _pthread_cond_wait + 914
2   libsystem_c.dylib               0x9232482a pthread_cond_wait + 48
3   com.macromedia.Flash Player.app 0x003ff62f 0x1000 + 4187695
4   com.macromedia.Flash Player.app 0x0001a06c 0x1000 + 102508
5   com.macromedia.Flash Player.app 0x003ff70c 0x1000 + 4187916
6   com.macromedia.Flash Player.app 0x003ff73a 0x1000 + 4187962
7   com.macromedia.Flash Player.app 0x003ff847 0x1000 + 4188231
8   libsystem_c.dylib               0x92378ed9 _pthread_start + 335
9   libsystem_c.dylib               0x9237c6de thread_start + 34
Thread 4:
0   libsystem_kernel.dylib          0x97d3e83e __psynch_cvwait + 10
1   libsystem_c.dylib               0x9237ce78 _pthread_cond_wait + 914
2   libsystem_c.dylib               0x9237cf7b pthread_cond_timedwait_relative_np + 47
3   com.macromedia.Flash Player.app 0x003ff5f8 0x1000 + 4187640
4   com.macromedia.Flash Player.app 0x001c58fe 0x1000 + 1853694
5   com.macromedia.Flash Player.app 0x003ff70c 0x1000 + 4187916
6   com.macromedia.Flash Player.app 0x003ff73a 0x1000 + 4187962
7   com.macromedia.Flash Player.app 0x003ff847 0x1000 + 4188231
8   libsystem_c.dylib               0x92378ed9 _pthread_start + 335
9   libsystem_c.dylib               0x9237c6de thread_start + 34
Thread 5:
0   libsystem_kernel.dylib          0x97d3e83e __psynch_cvwait + 10
1   libsystem_c.dylib               0x9237ce78 _pthread_cond_wait + 914
2   libsystem_c.dylib               0x9237cf7b pthread_cond_timedwait_relative_np + 47
3   com.macromedia.Flash Player.app 0x003ff5f8 0x1000 + 4187640
4   com.macromedia.Flash Player.app 0x00305328 0x1000 + 3162920
5   com.macromedia.Flash Player.app 0x003ff70c 0x1000 + 4187916
6   com.macromedia.Flash Player.app 0x003ff73a 0x1000 + 4187962
7   com.macromedia.Flash Player.app 0x003ff847 0x1000 + 4188231
8   libsystem_c.dylib               0x92378ed9 _pthread_start + 335
9   libsystem_c.dylib               0x9237c6de thread_start + 34
Thread 6:: com.apple.audio.IOThread.client
0   libsystem_kernel.dylib          0x97d3cc22 mach_msg_trap + 10
1   libsystem_kernel.dylib          0x97d3c1f6 mach_msg + 70
2   com.apple.audio.CoreAudio       0x9cd8e9fe HALB_MachPort::SendMessageWithReply(unsigned int, unsigned int, unsigned long, unsigned long, mach_msg_header_t*, unsigned int) + 122
3   com.apple.audio.CoreAudio       0x9cd8ea6a HALB_MachPort::SendSimpleMessageWithSimpleReply(unsigned int, unsigned int, int, int&, unsigned int) + 60
4   com.apple.audio.CoreAudio       0x9cd86e5f HALC_ProxyIOContext::IOWorkLoop() + 1145
5   com.apple.audio.CoreAudio       0x9cd86926 HALC_ProxyIOContext::IOThreadEntry(void*) + 136
6   com.apple.audio.CoreAudio       0x9cd86898 __HALC_ProxyIOContext_block_invoke_6 + 20
7   com.apple.audio.CoreAudio       0x9cd8681d HALB_IOThread::Entry(void*) + 69
8   libsystem_c.dylib               0x92378ed9 _pthread_start + 335
9   libsystem_c.dylib               0x9237c6de thread_start + 34
Thread 7:
0   libsystem_kernel.dylib          0x97d3f02e __workq_kernreturn + 10
1   libsystem_c.dylib               0x9237accf _pthread_wqthread + 773
2   libsystem_c.dylib               0x9237c6fe start_wqthread + 30
Thread 8:
0   libsystem_kernel.dylib          0x97d3f02e __workq_kernreturn + 10
1   libsystem_c.dylib               0x9237accf _pthread_wqthread + 773
2   libsystem_c.dylib               0x9237c6fe start_wqthread + 30
Thread 0 crashed with X86 Thread State (32-bit):
eax: 0x00dbe0e0 ebx: 0x00dbe0e0 ecx: 0x99985548 edx: 0x500d98cb
edi: 0x0000036e esi: 0x00aad0e0 ebp: 0xbfffe4f8 esp: 0xbfffe488
ss: 0x00000023 efl: 0x00010202 eip: 0x92115d47   cs: 0x0000001b
ds: 0x00000023   es: 0x00000023   fs: 0x00000000   gs: 0x0000000f
cr2: 0x500d98eb
Logical CPU: 1

Looks like it was a memory problem with the jvm.ini file.
Pumped it up to 256 and it works now.
Hope this helps anyone else in the future if they come across it.
Thanks.

PC/IE vs Mac/Safari -- looking for advice

This may be a really dumb question. I'm asking anyway.
For some reason, now that I'm beginning to use style sheets for everything (not just text), the issues of platform/browser differences seem more noticeable, less controllable. Is working with tables more forgiving? Or is this just a typical learning curve situation? I don't know.
I work on a Mac. I include reviews in Windows/IE.
I'd appreciate a recommendation on the most practical approach to dealing with the major visual differences that occur in 2 environments. Given that I mostly develop small- to modest-sized websites:
Should I continue to use a single style sheet that covers both environments?
With CSS, do I have to be more aware of issues and more informed about ways to resolve them (specifically with regard to IE)?
Is there an alternative approach I should think about (browser detection and separate style sheets -- no idea even if this is feasible)?

Start your projects with a pre-built CSS layout that has been tested to perform well in all browsers. CSS divisions do not behave like tables.
My personal favorites (not free) are the CSS Templates or Page Packs from Project Seven. If you do much development, CSS Layout Magic is a good tool to use within DW and it will give you a running start on all your projects.
http://www.projectseven.com/products/
Rule of thumb, use valid code. Error free code gives the best cross browser results.
Code Validation Tools
CSS - http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
HTML - http://validator.w3.org/
Get the Web Developer Toolbar for Firefox (a must have)
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/60
Test pages in a standards compliant browser first (Chrome/Safari, Firefox, Opera). It's a good bet that if your pages work in one of the good browsers, it should hold up in most of them. Then test in IE. If necessary, use Conditional Comments to counteract IE's negative issues.
IE Conditional Comments -
http://www.quirksmode.org/css/condcom.html
Hope this helps,
Nancy O.
Alt-Web Design & Publishing
Web | Graphics | Print | Media Specialists
http://alt-web.com/
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