INSTALLING THE XTRA ON MAC OSX - Director 11

Double-click the installation .dmg file. This will mount a disk named "Arca Database Xtra" on your desktop.

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

Arca Database Xtra/Mac Universal/Arca Database Xtra.xtra

This file needs to be copied to the Director 11 Xtras folder. The final pathname for the Xtra in a default installation of Director 11 will be:

OSX Volume Name/Applications/Adobe Director 11/Configuration/Xtras/Arca Database Xtra.xtra

Windows projectors can also be created directly on Director 11 running on Mac OSX after installation of the Windows version of the Xtra. It is located on the install disk, at:

Arca Database Xtra/Windows/Arca.x32

Copy this file to the Cross Platform resources directory in Director 11, so that it will be available at:

OSX Volume Name/Applications/Adobe Director 11/Configuration/Cross Platform Resources/Windows/Xtras/Arca.x32

Finally, you need to edit the xtrainfo.txt file to include information about Arca Database Xtra. This information is used by the cross-platform publishing features in Director 11, to locate the files needed when assembling the Windows version of your projector. The xtrainfo.txt file is located by default at:

OSX Volume Name/Applications/Adobe Director 11/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:"Arca Dabase Xtra", #nameW32:"Arca.x32"]

Restart Director for the changes to take effect. The Xtra should be listed when you issue the command "put the xtralist" in the message window. The Xtra functions will also be listed when you click the message window Scripting Xtras button.