PC/x-platform development (was Re: embed/install font)

[Brad Borch]

Ah, but I only have the Mac development platform. I guess that argues 
for me to get the PC platform.

Which raises a couple of points:

1) I got tired of paying Macromedia for the right to develop on two 
platforms. Every time Director upgraded, I had to shell out another $800 
for the upgrade on both platforms. I'm glad that Rev Studio on the Mac 
creates xplatform executables, but it sure would be nice to have both 
platforms included in the purchase of the product.

2) As the development platform depends on the player, would it be 
possible to create a limited development stack that would basically 
allow the testing of commands (like you list below) that would be 
interpreted by the player?

I guess the issue comes down to this: In director you could get away 
with creating movies that were playable on a PC using a "stub" projector 
(essentially a player). It was doable, but troubleshooting was a real 
PITA. I'm thinking the same it true of Rev?

Trevor DeVore wrote:

> If you set the externals property of a stack while the stack is open  
> then you need to do one of two things to load the external:
> 
> 1) Set the destroyWindow property of the stack to true.  Close the  
> stack window and open it again.
> 
> 2) Remove the stack from memory.  Open it again.
> 
> Here is a snippet of code that will create a new stack, set the  
> externals property and load the exteranl.  You can run this in the  
> multiline message box:
> 
> create stack "MyStack"
> set the destroyWindow of stack "MyStack" to true
> set the externals of stack "MyStack" to "EnhancedWin.dll"
> close stack "MyStack"
> go stack "MyStack"
> put the externalPackages of stack "MyStack"