Platform Specific Issues
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- Pre-built cross-platform installer for Director 7 projects
- Determining the proper platform-specific line end character
- Simple lingo for determining the platform (Mac or Win)
- Cross Platform authoring with DXRs
- Cross Platform Checklist
- Director 7 Workshop shows how turning off script coloring in D7 for movies transferred across platforms can cause destruction of
high ASCII characters, including Lingo line continuation (¬)
- Macintosh & Windows Text Rendering Comparison or "why are fonts so darn big on PC's?"
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- A story of troubles dealing with Windows and Mac palettes.
- Managing Sound in cross-platform Director, from the DreamLight Insight series.
- The ins and outs of picking an optimum 8-bit palette for use on Mac and Windows
- David Cain documents how PC Exchange 2.2 mangles long filenames on locked volumes
- Hybrid CD-ROMs
- Platform independent file path specifier (using "@")
- VGA vs Mac palletes
- Optimum palette for Mac to Windows
- Tips for Mac to Windows conversion
- Greg Yachuk outlines some of the common problems with linked cast files including the Director 4+5 bug with linked file paths not resolving
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- Tips for Windows to mac conversion.
- Warren Ockrassa's tips for moving a Director project from Windows 95 to Mac
- Loren Mork describes how to convert PC Notepad files to Mac Simpletext
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- Macintosh System Error Codes
- Machine-type codes for Macs as of 7/95
- The right way to set Mac application icons
- Macintosh installer programs
- Joseph Fish outlines the 72 steps for installing Windows 95 on a Mac 6100/DOS compatible
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- Director-Workshop shows how to make property lists from Window's INI files
- Use the fullColorPermit for 16-bit projectors
- Aniware AniRex is a utility for switching a PC's color and moinotr resolution before launching your projector.
- ActiveX Stuff for Director
- Files on the root level of a PC drive
- Backdrop for Windows
- Executing DOS commands
- Lingo User's guide to the Windows Media Control Interface (MCI)
- Getting the drive letter for multi-volume CD-ROMs
- Using the fullColorPermit property for Win95 Projectors (for faster performance in 16 and 32 bit color depth environments)
- Hardware for authoring on Windows
- Summary of Installer programs for Windows
- The Soloist is an approach to prevent multiple instances of a Windows projector
- Top Ten Windows Issues (Macromedia TechNote 3504)
- Troubleshooting for Windows
- Troubleshooting Display Drivers in Director for Windows (Macromedia TechNote 3121)
- Tips to Troubleshooting GPFs with Director for Windows (Macromedia TechNote 3130)
- Macromedia Tech Note 3191 on Windows and Multichannel Sound
- When EMPTY does not equal 0
- Using the "open" command in DFW Projectors
- Why do I need Director for Windows? (Macromedia TechNote 3156)