WebXtra WEBXTRA HELP: INSTALLATION  
 

The installation procedure is slightly different depending on the version of Director and platform used, and the location where Director is installed on your system. Make sure you have administrative rights to create files in the directory where Director is installed on your system.

Important: please remember that WebXtra sprites do not spawn a working web browser on the Macintosh: the Xtra is only fully functional on Windows. The Macintosh versions of the Xtra are provided as stubs to help users that must author cross-platform movies on the Mac platform, or need to work in both platforms with the same set of files and cast libraries, without any error messages. With these stub Xtras it is perfectly possible to write a complete application using WebXtra on the Mac and cross publish it for Windows using Director MX 2004.

 

INSTALLING THE XTRA ON WINDOWS - Director 8.5 and Director MX

Decompress the installation .zip file. This will unpack the Xtra, documentation and sample files to a folder named "WebXtra" on your machine. To install the Xtra, just copy the file WebXtra.x32 to the Director 8.5 or Director MX XTRAS folder. If you have previously installed an older copy of the Xtra make sure to remove or replace it.

These are the final pathnames for the Xtra file after being copied to the default location of the Xtras folder in each application:

 

Director 8.5- C:\Program Files\Macromedia\Director 8.5\Xtras\WebXtra.x32

Director MX- C:\Program Files\Macromedia\Director MX\Xtras\WebXtra.x32

 

No additional configuration is needed. Restart Director for the changes to take effect. The Xtra should appear in the INSERT->TABULEIRO XTRAS->WebXtra menu item.

 

 

INSTALLING THE XTRA ON WINDOWS - Director MX 2004

If you have not done so, we recommend updating to Director MX 2004 version 10.1 before installing the Xtra. This will allow creation of projectors for Mac Classic and OSX (Director MX 2004 without the update can only create cross platform projectors for OSX.) The update to 10.1 can be found at www.macromedia.com.

Decompress the installation .zip file. This will unpack the Xtra, documentation and sample files to a folder named "WebXtra" on your machine. To install the Xtra, just copy the file WebXtra.x32 to the Director MX 2004 XTRAS folder. If your copy of Director MX 2004 is installed at the default location, the Windows Xtra file will be located at:

 

C:\Program Files\Macromedia\Director MX 2004\Configuration\Xtras\WebXtra.x32

 

Now you need to install the files necessary for creation of cross-platform projector for Mac OSX. Go back to the "WebXtra" directory where the Xtra files were unpacked. Open the "Cross Platform Resources\Macintosh\Xtras" directory. Now copy the files "WebXtra.data" and "WebXtra.rsrc" files to the "Configuration\Cross Platform Resources\Macintosh\Xtras" directory used by Director MX 2004. In a default installation of Director these files will end up at the following locations:

 

C:\Program Files\Macromedia\Director MX 2004\Configuration\Cross Platform Resources\Macintosh\Xtras\WebXtra.data

C:\Program Files\Macromedia\Director MX 2004\Configuration\Cross Platform Resources\Macintosh\Xtras\WebXtra.rsrc

 

If you are running Director MX 2004 10.1, you can also install the files necessary for creation of cross-platform projector for Mac Classic. Again, go back to the "WebXtra" directory where the Xtra files were unpacked. Open the "Cross Platform Resources\Classic\Xtras" directory. Now copy the files "WebXtra.data" and "WebXtra.rsrc" files to the "Configuration\Cross Platform Resources\Classic\Xtras" directory used by Director MX 2004. In a default installation of Director these files will end up at the following locations:

 

C:\Program Files\Macromedia\Director MX 2004\Configuration\Cross Platform Resources\Classic\Xtras\WebXtra.data

C:\Program Files\Macromedia\Director MX 2004\Configuration\Cross Platform Resources\Classic\Xtras\WebXtra.rsrc

 

Finally, you need to edit the xtrainfo.txt file to include information about WebXtra. This information is used by the cross-platform publishing features in Director MX 2004, to locate the files needed when assembling the OSX and Classic versions of your projector. The xtrainfo.txt file is located by default at:

 

C:\Program Files\Macromedia\Director MX 2004\Configuration\xtrainfo.txt

 

Double click the file to open it in notepad, or alternatively edit with any other text editor. You need to add the following line to the end of the file:

 

[#namePPC:"WebXtra", #nameW32:"WebXtra.x32"]

 

Restart Director for the changes to take effect. The Xtra should appear in the INSERT->TABULEIRO XTRAS->WebXtra menu item.

 

 

INSTALLING THE XTRA ON MAC OS 8 AND 9 - Director 8.5

Decompress the installation .sit file. This will unpack the Xtra, documentation and sample files to a folder named "WebXtra" on your machine. To install the Xtra just copy the file "WebXtra" from the MacClassic folder to the Xtras folder of your Director 8.5 installation. The final pathname for the Xtra will be for example:

 

Macintosh HD:Applications:Macromedia Director 8.5:Xtras:WebXtra

 

No additional configuration is needed. Restart Director for the changes to take effect. The Xtra should appear in the INSERT->TABULEIRO XTRAS->WebXtra menu item in Director. Please remember that WebXtra sprites do not spawn a working browser on the Mac: the Xtra is provided only as a convenience for authors working on cross-platform movies. The stub Xtra recognizes all standard WebXtra functions and properties, and can be used to avoid error messages when opening cast libraries that contain WebXtra castmembers.

 

 

INSTALLING THE XTRA ON MAC OSX 10 - Director MX

Decompress the installation .sit file. This will unpack the Xtra, documentation and sample files to a folder named "WebXtra" on your machine

The first step is to copy the OSX version of the Xtra, which will be used in the authoring environment and also when creating OSX projectors. This file is located in the install disk image, at:

 

WebXtra Folder/MacOSX/WebXtra

 

This file needs to be copied to the Director MX Xtras folder. The final pathname for the OSX Xtra in a default installation of Director MX will be:

 

OSX Volume Name/Applications/Macromedia Director MX/Xtras/WebXtra

 

Director MX running on Mac OSX can also be used to create Classic projectors, for Mac OS versions 8 and 9. In order to enable this feature you need to copy the Classic version of WebXtra to the correct location in your Director MX installation. First locate the Classic version of WebXtra in the install disk:

 

WebXtra Folder/MacClassic/WebXtra

 

This file needs to be copied to the following location in the Director MX folder:

 

OSX Volume Name/Applications/Macromedia Director MX/Classic MacOS/Xtras/WebXtra

 

This will allow creation of both OSX and Classic Projectors from Director MX, with the right version of the stub Xtra being bundled automatically with your Projector. Restart Director for the changes to take effect. The Xtra should appear in the INSERT->TABULEIRO XTRAS->WebXtra menu item the next time Director MX is started. Please remember that WebXtra sprites do not spawn a working browser on the Mac: the Xtra is provided only as a convenience for authors working on cross-platform movies. The stub Xtra recognizes all standard WebXtra functions and properties, and can be used to avoid error messages when opening cast libraries that contain WebXtra castmembers.

 

 

INSTALLING THE XTRA ON MAC OSX 10 - Director MX 2004

Decompress the installation .sit file. This will unpack the Xtra, documentation and sample files to a folder named "WebXtra" on your machine

The first step is to copy the OSX version of the Xtra, which will be used in the authoring environment and also when creating OSX projectors. This file is located in the install disk image, at:

 

WebXtra Folder/MacOSX/WebXtra

 

This file needs to be copied to the Director MX Xtras folder. The final pathname for the OSX Xtra in a default installation of Director MX will be:

 

OSX Volume Name/Applications/Macromedia Director MX 2004/Configuration/Xtras/WebXtra

 

Director MX 2004 running on Mac OSX can also be used to create Classic projectors, for Mac OS versions 8 and 9. In order to enable this feature you need to copy the Classic version of WebXtra to the correct location in your Director MX installation. First locate the Classic version of WebXtra in the install disk:

 

WebXtra Folder/MacClassic/WebXtra

 

This file needs to be copied to the following location in the Director MX folder, to be used for cross-platform publishing. Copy it to:

 

OSX Volume Name/Applications/Macromedia Director MX 2004/Configuration/Cross Platform Resources/Classic MacOS/Xtras/WebXtra

 

Fully functional Windows projectors containing WebXtra browsers can be created directly on Director MX 2004 running on Mac OSX, after installation of the Windows version of the Xtra. It is located on the install disk, at:

 

WebXtra Folder/Windows/WebXtra.x32

 

Copy this file to the Cross Platform resources directory in Director MX 2004, so that it will be available at:

 

OSX Volume Name/Applications/Macromedia Director MX 2004/Configuration/Cross Platform Resources/Windows/Xtras/WebXtra.x32

 

Finally, you need to edit the xtrainfo.txt file to include information about WebXtra. This information is used by the cross-platform publishing features in Director MX 2004, to locate the files needed when assembling the Classic MacOS and Windows versions of your projector. The xtrainfo.txt file is located by default at:

 

OSX Volume Name/Applications/Macromedia Director MX 2004/Configuration/xtrainfo.txt

 

Double click the file to open it in TextEdit, or alternatively edit with another text editor. Make sure to save the file in plain text format, though. You need to add the following line to the end of the file:

 

[#namePPC:"WebXtra", #nameW32:"WEBXTRA.X32"]

 

Restart Director for the changes to take effect. The Xtra should appear in the INSERT->TABULEIRO XTRAS->WebXtra menu item, and will also be available for publishing of cross-platform projectors. Please remember that WebXtra sprites do not spawn a working browser on Mac projectors or the authoring environment: the Xtra is provided only as a convenience for authors working on cross-platform movies. The stub Xtra recognizes all standard WebXtra functions and properties, and can be used to avoid error messages when opening cast libraries that contain WebXtra castmembers. Windows projectors cross-published in Director MX 2004 have no limitations.