Use Director Xtra as driver?

[Bill Vlahos]

What a fun project and interesting game.

OS X ships with a C compiler (GCC) so it should not be a problem to 
compile the C code (assuming that is what they provide). If it is, then 
you could compile it and make it an external which can be used with 
Rev. There are others on this mailing list who have a lot of experience 
with externals (I don't) and I know that at least some of them are at 
WWDC (in San Francisco) this week. If you can get the drivers as an 
external (compiled for Mac and for Windows) then Rev should work with 
them nicely.

I don't know anything about Director's Xtra files but would doubt that 
you could use it. There are others on this list with experience with 
Director too.

Rev should be a very good environment for you to do this in assuming 
you can get the USB device working. Unfortunately, few people have 
reported success in talking to USB devices other than using them for 
serial connections. Supposedly Rev can talk to USB devices so maybe 
someone can make this work.

Good luck.

Bill Vlahos

On Jun 26, 2004, at 5:40 AM, Elizabeth Dalton wrote:

> I haven't seen the SDK directly, as that involves signing a licensing 
> agreement and I'm trying to figure out if there would be any point 
> before I go there. I assume the SDK is written in C. It's been a long 
> time since I've written any C, and I don't think I even have a C 
> compiler on my OSX system (unless you count perlcc, which I don't). I 
> may be able to find someone to write a driver using the SDK, but in 
> the meantime, I noticed that the SDK also includes a Macromedia 
> Director Xtra to access the device. Is there any chance I could use 
> that instead? Does anyone have any experience controlling or using an 
> Xtra from RR? I'm guessing I might need a shim, at the least....