Mac compatibility

[bourkie]

Hiya people.

I created an autorun presentation in media studio which incorporated jpegs, flash movies, some text and an mpeg. It works fine on my PC but a friend has reported a problem on his Mac. The autorun file will not load up (even if you navigate to the cd rom drive and click the autorun file). The only way he can make it work is to run it in WinXP via Virtual PC.

Any guesses as to the possible problem here?

What can I do to be sure my media studio creations will work on Mac's?

[Corey]

Re: Mac compatibility

AutoPlay Media Studio currently only creates executable files which run on PC, not Mac. Maybe in the future.

Just for your reference .exe files do not run on Mac, only PC.

Corey Milner
Creative Director, Indigo Rose Software

[eric_darling]

Re: Mac compatibility

Perhaps someone else can go to bat for this in the suggestion box? I hate to be the lone johnny-one-note on this: Mac runtimes suitable for OS X would be incredible!

[Corey]

Re: Mac compatibility

It's not that easy from my understanding. After all for example with Macromedia's flash, you can only create projectors for a Mac on a Mac and for a PC on a PC. I think that pretty much demonstrates that it's not easy. If anyone would have implemented a Mac build option for PC software it most definitely would have been Macromedia with Flash.

I remember when I used to toy with Borland's C++ that there was something called the VCL or visual clicks library (or something like that) which could build for Mac or PC but that's different because that's a set of components. In other words it seems like they would have to build a whole new "build" engine to even attempt that.

All this is said with the caveat that I know nothing about programming and could be 100% wrong, this is just my personal impression of implications the surrounding this issue.

Secondly, our dev guys are on the ball big time, I'm sure if it was imminently do-able it would have been done by now. I'm certain that they are keeping a diligent eye on the feasibilty of this functionality though because obviously it would very much be in our interests to be able to do that. Suffice to say that I'm sure this particular suggestion has already been taken under consideration in a big way.

Corey Milner
Creative Director, Indigo Rose Software

[Derek]

Re: Mac compatibility

I believe this was suggested during testing. Brett's answer was:
<font color=purple>You do not want to re-write this for Mac ... trust me on this! However, because the base of it is xml, it is possible someone could write a Java front end for it that would work on the Mac.</font color=purple>
...or somethong close to that.

[Corey]

Re: Mac compatibility

Exactly.

Corey Milner
Creative Director, Indigo Rose Software

[eric_darling]

Re: Mac compatibility

If I remember correctly, Brett's response in that thread was aimed at questions regarding creation of the authoring aspects of AMS for Macintosh. And I certainly understand why that wouldn't be in IR's best interests. I can't argue with that.

However, it's the runtime capability that I want (and I argue many others who have yet to purchase AMS would want too). Just in the video production industry alone, this would be a Director killer!

Here's a scenario that would strike a doable compromise:

Put a project converter utility downloadable by registered owners of AMS on the IR web site. The converter takes the project file and it's associated graphics/fonts/videos/etc. and builds a runtime for OS X.

I know, it's all so simple in my mind. [img]/ubbthreads/images/icons/wink.gif[/img] However, the addition of such a utility would bear positive effects on IR's bottom line, I'm sure. Where there's market share and revenue to be gained, there should effort be placed. [img]/ubbthreads/images/icons/laugh.gif[/img]

[Corey]

Re: Mac compatibility

I'm thinking if such a utility were feasible there would be tons of them out there already. As far as I know it's way more complicated than it sounds. [img]/ubbthreads/images/icons/smile.gif[/img]

Corey Milner
Creative Director, Indigo Rose Software