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director/mx2004/release_update_en/26_pack8.htm

Thomas Higgins — 2005-06-01T17:10:47

The Shockwave Player is not available for "mobile" users (I'm assuming that you are referring to cell phone/PDA/etc. devices when you say "mobile"). As of today we support Windows and Macintosh operating systems as per the following system requirements page:

http://www.macromedia.com/software/shockwaveplayer/productinfo/systemreqs/

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ROLL — 2005-06-01T08:43:05

Can mobile users download the Shockwave Player?

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Thomas Higgins — 2005-04-14T10:10:27

This seems more of a general usage question so for further follow-up on this please consult any one of the numerous newsgroup forums (hosted by macromedia) or mailing lists (3rd party hosted) to get more information. In general you can use the Save and Compact feature to reduce this increasing file size overhead. Saving and Compacting will cause Director to do a more thorough job of saving the file while removing now unneeded bits, but this can take a bit longer to complete than a normal save, especially with files as large as you are using. Therefore during your normal course of developing using the standard save is the way to go, then periodically use Save and Compact to do a reality check on your file size.

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robertwho — 2005-04-13T20:36:22

Don't know who can help? I'm maintaining an old "movie", actually I'm streaminglining the Lingo codes by taking away/or changing some common codes to function calls to reduce the size. To my dismay, with my gradually reducing the Lingo codes, the dir file's size gradually grow from 280M to 430M and resulting dcr file gradually grow from 4.8M to 11M! I understand partially that dir file size might grow due to somehow director keep the history info, how come dcr file size also grow at such mad speed?
SOS!

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Thomas Higgins — 2005-03-25T10:18:03

Please note that the third bullet point above refers to the ability to compress the player code which is a feature no longer available in Director MX 2004. In Macromedia Director versions 7 through MX there was an ability to create "Compressed" projectors which contained compressed versions of the needed player engine libraries to reduce the overall projector size at the expense of launch time. As of Director MX 2004 this feature was removed and so the documentation above is incorrect in that you cannot compress the player code. There are options for media compression that continue to be available though, thought I'd make that clear for folks.