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problem with Fileio Xtra trying to create a shockwave animation

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Patrice Payen

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Sep 17, 1998, 3:00:00 AM9/17/98

I'm trying to create a shockwave output based of a director animation.
When I load the html file with IE4, I get an error message.

Xtra not found
"fileio"

Here is the code of the html file.

<html>

<head>
<title>Test Shockwave</title>
</head>

<body>
<object CLASSID="clsid:166B1BCA-3F9C-11CF-8075-444553540000"

codebase="http://active.macromedia.com/director6/cabs/SW.CAB#version=6,0,1,6
116"
WIDTH="640" HEIGHT="480" BGCOLOR="OOOOOO"
Name="sw" Id="sw">
<param name="SRC" value="intro.dcr">

and the page is www.amosdec.com/test

What do I forgot ?
As you can see, I'm not a guru in director developpement.

Thanks for your help

Patrice Payen
Amosdec
France
pa...@amosdec.fr

Peter DeCrescenzo

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Sep 17, 1998, 3:00:00 AM9/17/98

Patrice Payen wrote:
> I'm trying to create a shockwave output based of a director animation.
> When I load the html file with IE4, I get an error message.
> Xtra not found
> "fileio"

In general you may wish to avoid using most Xtras when developing for
Shockwave in browsers. For security reasons, Xtras are not automatically
packaged in Shocked movies or downloaded to end users machines. (You'd
have to develope a mechanisim to download and correctly install the Xtra
to to client machine; not a trivial task).

Depending on your design requirements, you may be able to use the Lingo
"setPref" and "getPref" instead of the FileIO Xtra. Although these
commands are more limited than the Xtra (by design), they work in
Shockwave & browsers, and don't require an Xtra. For more information,
refer to searchable TechNote #12814 at:
http://www.macromedia.com/support/director/ts/documents/read_write_text_tips.htm
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