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Shockwave player browser compatibility
Shockwave Player can play Director movies in the following browsers:
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For Microsoft
Windows®: An Intel Pentium IV with 256 MB of available RAM running Windows XP SP2 or
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Windows
Vista™ and 500 MB of available disk space; one of the following web browsers: Microsoft Internet
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Explorer
6.0 or 7.0, and a color monitor
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For Mac®-Intel®: A Power Mac G3 with 128 MB of available RAM running Mac OS® X 10.2.6 or 10.3; one of the
following web browsers: Netscape® 7.1, Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.2 or later, or Safari®; and a color monitor
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For Mac Classic: A Power Mac G3 with 64 MB of available RAM running System 9.2; Microsoft Internet Explorer
5.1; and a color monitor
When it first encounters an HTML page that references Shockwave® content, Internet Explorer for Windows asks the
user for permission to download the Shockwave ActiveX control if it is not already installed. If the user approves, it
downloads and installs the control.
Using the lingo.ini file to run startup scripts
Lingo scripts in the lingo.ini file (in the application folder) are run before Director opens. Ensure that the lingo.ini
file is present in the same folder as the Director.exe file.
Customize the lingo.ini file
Locate the lingo.ini file in the Director's installation folder.
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Copy the lingo.ini file to the folder containing the Director.exe file if it is not already there.
Open the lingo.ini file and enter the Lingo script.
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Close and re-open Director.
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Previewing a movie in a browser
You can preview a movie in a browser on your local computer to view JPEG-compressed bitmaps, and to check the
movie design, script, and any other performance issues related to playing a movie in a browser. Previewing a movie
creates a temporary Shockwave (DCR) file that opens in a browser. This temporary file gets deleted after you quit
Director.
Note: When you use the Publish command rather than the Preview In Browser command (with the Preview After
Publishing option selected in the Publish Settings Format tab), you can create permanent DCR and HTML files. These
permanent files (as opposed to temporary ones created simply by using the Preview In Browser command) can then be
placed on a web server for viewing with a browser through http.
You might notice that linked media files do not work as expected when you preview a movie in a browser. Because
of security restrictions, movies playing in browsers might not be able to read files from a local disk unless they are
in the dswmedia folder (also called the support folder), which is a subfolder of the folder containing the player.
Therefore, to preview a movie that uses linked media, you might need to put the movie and all of its linked media in
the dswmedia folder.
If the relative files haven't changed, the movie can open any file in a subfolder of dswmedia. If you move the movie
and its media to another server, the linked media will continue to work if you preserve the same folder structure. For
more information, see
Using dswmedia folders and the support folder to publish Shockwave
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