How to Develop a Hybrid Platform Director product 4

[hetin]

The need is to develop a hybrid educational cd-rom using director. The question is can we use the same dir file and develop this product, if yes then how ... do we just transport the windows dir in to a mac machine and then burn a projector out of it...or else what is the best technique ... please help...

 

[kramerpup]

There are many concerns with doing a cross-platform project. The .dir files are cross-platform, but other concerns such as how the Mac versus PC displays graphics, fonts, sound formats, etc. can all come into play.

I would suggest going to Macromedia first.

http://www.macromedia.com/support/director

Search for "cross platform" That will give you plenty of info.

 

[Horrid]

As kramerpup said, number of cross platform issues, fonts are the biggest one. Most other things will work fine.

But you are correct about how to do it, take your PC .dir file onto the mac and make your projector again.

Remember that mac and PCs use different file targeting though, this isn't usually an issue if you have all files in one folder but if you have files in a number of folders you may want to set your searchpaths. Or you can do a check for mac or pc and use code in all your paths to switch the "\" with ":".
eg
if the enviroment.platform = "windows,32" then
pathseparator = "\"
else
pathseparator = ":"
end if

gotomovie pathseparator & "pathname" & pathseparator & file

hope this helps

 

[blended]

I recently worked with this problem, and though it depends totally on what your doing, you can embed everything in a browser and avoid many of these problems. However, if you have to avoid browsers, just plan ahead and make sure you're using compatible fonts and path structures and you should be fine.

Blended

 

[whitedragon]

blender,
here's a whole article

http://www.director-online.com/buildArticle.cfm?id=931

whitedragon