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The Director Mile High Table O' Products

Welcome to the Director Mile High Table 0'Products page, originally created by Gretchen Macdowall for updatestage. This table is a comprehensive list of Xtras, tools, utilities and any product that may be useful when working directly or indirectly with Director made applications.

Here's a Director 11 Xtras List.

If you notice any errors or would like your link changed / added, email Dean.

Category Links

3D
App Control
Autostart CD
Batch
Cast
CD/DVD Burning
Database
Date / Time
Device Control
Dialog
DVD
Encryption

File
File Format Support
Fulltext Search
Graphics
Help/Documentation
Import / Export
Installer
Internet
Kiosk
Lingo Code / Behaviors
Lingo Editing
Mac/PC File Exchange

Memory
Menu
MIDI
Mouse and Keyboard
Multiuser
Print
Projector Icon
Protection
Screen Capture
Screen Recorder

Screen Resolution
Screensaver

Scripting
Sound

Speech
Spellcheck
System
Transitions
Tutorials / Training
Utility
Video
Window

Director 11 Note:
The Adobe Director 11 release introduces Unicode text, and support for MacIntel and Vista. This has implications for Xtra support:
* Any Windows Xtra that requires full text support (covering Unicode characters) will need to be updated to D11 to get this functionality. The definition of 'text support' is broad, a name of a sound could use Unicode characters.
* Generally, Windows Xtras (pre-D11) should continue to function in D11 and will continue to use the non-Unicode supported set of characters.
* Windows Director 11 Xtras with Unicode support should work in D10 or below but without the Unicode support.
* Macintosh pre-D11 Xtras will not work in D11. Xtras for Mac have to be updated to new Universal Binary format.
* Macintosh D11 Xtras will not work on previous versions of Director.

The above is a general assessment. Please check with the Xtra developer for further clarification/questions you have regarding a specific Xtra.

Note

Prices are in US $ unless specified otherwise.

Name Short Description Price Platform Version Author

3D

3-D Scene List Tool MIAW

Tool Xtra to list all nodes of all 3-D members in your director movie in a hierarchical list. Works together with 3DPI.

0

Win, Mac

D8.5-11

Alex da Franca

3DPI

DCR tool Xtra giving a Property Inspector for viewing and editing properties of Shockwave 3D members and sprites. Also allows saving of Shockwave 3D scenes and access to AGEIA PhysX engine properties and functions (for Director 11 use).

50.00

Win, Mac

D8.5-11

Ullala

3D SpeedPort Xtra

Converts OBJ files containing 3D models to Shockwave 3D format.

0

Win

D8.5-10

Jeffrey Abouaf

3D User Data Inspector

Shows model, camera and light properties.

0

Win

D8.5-10

Laurent Cozic

Alex 3-D Tool

MIAW tool that saves and restores 3D scenes.

0

Win, Mac

D8.5-11

Alex da Franca

awaW3DTrans Xtra

Shockwave3D Converter that imports FBX, 3DS, OBJ, DXF and DAE, as well as Google Earth format (KML, KMZ).

50

Win, Mac

D11

E-CRAFT

Cando Virtual Art Gallery Creator

Allows creation of personal online art gallery in Shockwave 3D. Independent to Director.

99.00

Win, Mac

N/A

Cando Interactive

Cando 3D Modeling / Game Training Toolkit

Training toolkit to help students learn how to model in 3D. It can also be used to help teach basic game logic. Independent to Director.

£350

Win, Mac

N/A

Cando Interactive

Chrome Lib

Extensive 3D Library of easy to use behaviors with camera management, tweening, model handling, rendering parameters and UI components.

29.95

Win, Mac, SW

D8.5-11

Karl Sigiscar

Geo-metricks Shockwave 3D models

Low poly Shockwave 3D model collections of skyscrapers, racing cars, avatars, tanks, planes, guns and urban cars.

39.95-99.95

Win, Mac, SW

D8.5-11

Geo-metricks

IMS Character Generator Studio MX

Automatically generates mouth / facial expressions of 3D head to match audio.

695.00

Win

D8.5-10

IMS Interactive

Irrlicht3D Xtra

Realtime 3D cast member Xtra.

0

Win

in beta mode

Christophe Leske

PolyTrans-for-Director

Allows Director to import (from within the Director user interface) 3D scene data of most other 3D software packages and file formats, such as 3DS MAX, Maya Lightwave, and many more.

395.00

Win

D8.5-11

Okino

RavWare OpenGL Xtra

Creates interactive 3D objects and scenes.

149.99

Win

 

RavWare

ReAnimator3D

Tool for Director to create keyframe animations as well as offer interactive control over bones in Shockwave 3D models, as well as allows motions to be exported into Lingo for use in own projects.

0

Win

D8.5-10

Karsten "toxi" Schmidt

ShapeShifter 3D

3D model creation for Shockwave 3D.

N/A

Win, Mac

discont.

Tabuleiro

SPi-V

Shockwave 3D based panorama viewer, that can be used in Director movies or as a standalone application with the SPi-V Viewer.

49

Win, Mac, SW

D8.5-11

fieldOfView

Sw3dC - W3D Converter

Executable Projector (using awaW3DTrans Xtra) that converts FBX, OBJ, 3DS, DXF, DAE, KML and KMZ to Shockwave3D.

0

Win, Mac

D11

E-CRAFT

SW3D Viewer

Shockwave 3D Viewer EXE allows Shockwave W3D files to be opened and viewed.

0

Win

N/A

Macromedia

w3dToolbar

The w3dToolbar is a set of Lingo tools that offer modifying the view (camera transform) and model transforms by drag-and-drop actions in any shockwave3D-world.

0

Win, Mac

D8.5-11

Ullala

App Control

ActiveX Xtra

Allows inserting visual ActiveX controls as Director sprites. It provides full scripting control over wrapped object by means of VbScriptXtra.

0

Win

D7-11

XtraMania

MasterApp Xtra

Launch, monitor and control external apps. Sends keypress or mouse click, resize / hide / show windows.

150.00

Win, Mac

 

Dirigo Multimedia

OLE Xtra

Allows inserting OLE object as a cast member. Supports embedding Microsoft Excel table or PowerPoint and running them right on stage under full scripting control.

0

Win

D7-11

XtraMania

RavWare PPViewer Xtra

Controls PowerPoint Viewer. Can size and position PPV window, inform DIR when PPV quits, jump to any.

115.99

Win

 

RavWare

VbScriptXtra

Allows use of Lingo in the same way as VbScript to automate applications. Full control over Microsoft Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Office, Internet Explorer, ADO, ADOX, ADOMD, DAO, system shell and other software and system components right from Lingo.

0-500

Win

D7-11

XtraMania

zLaunch

Launch other apps, quit Director while external app is open then return to Director.

299.00

Win (Win 3.1 / Win 95), Mac (68K / PowerMac)

supports D6

Zeus Productions

zOpen

Launch app, quit and reenter Director while app open, print docs through external app.

299.00

Win

supports D6-10

Zeus Productions

zScript

Send and receive Apple Events.

129.00

Mac

supports D6-10

Zeus Productions

Autostart CD

AUTOption Graphic

Autorun with fast launch,custom splash menu, buttons launch commands, sound.

59.95

Win

N/A

Pollen Software

Autorun

Launches one or more EXEs or documents or shows Explorer window of CD contents

0

Win

N/A

Tarma Software Research

AutoRun (Win), AutoStart (Mac Classic)

Utility applications that can be automatically run when a CD is inserted to decide whether to install the CD-ROM's software or to run an already-installed copy of the software from the hard drive

40.00

Win, Mac

 

Dirigo Multimedia

Batch

BarbaBatch

Batch process audio, batch import audio tracks from CD.

395.00

Mac

N/A

AudioEase

Batch Wizard

Batch stitches fish eye images into spherical or cubic panorama.

499.95

Win, Mac

N/A

Panorama Technologies Corp. Ltd.

Brenda the Batch Renderer

Batch dithering to a super palette.

0

Win

N/A

Gary Gehman

Cleaner

Compress video to specified data rate, batch compress. Offers compression for Windwos Media, QuickTime and MPEG-4 for Web.

599.00

Win, Mac

N/A

Autodesk

Jim Wilsher - Bulk Rename Utility

Utility which allows you to easily rename files and directories, based upon extemely flexible criteria. Add date-stamps, replace numbers, insert strings, convert case, add auto-numbers, process folders and subfolders....plus loads more!

0

Win

N/A

Jim Wilsher

NameChum Pro

Application for changing the name of files, folders and disks.

20.00

Mac

N/A

Yellowsoft

Spike

Batch analyze QuickTime movies for data spikes. Provides graphical reports.

65.00

Mac

N/A

Christopher Yavelow

Cast

castXtra

Attaches / detaches / creates castLibs at runtime.

0

Win, Mac

 

Valentin Schmidt

CD / DVD Burning

CDBurnerXP Pro

Application to burn CDs and DVDs, including Blu-Ray and HD-DVDs, as well as create ISOs, and a multilanguage interface.

0

Win

N/A

Stefan Haglund, Fredrik Haglund, Florian Schmitz

DiskJockey

Makes CD that autoruns (Win), switches monitor resolution, tests sound volume, runs QT or other installers.

99 (Win)
149(Mac)

Win, Mac

N/A

Reaction Media

Easy Media Creator Suite

Handles all aspects of creating CDs and DVDs, as well as managing music, video, and photos for portable media devices.

99.99

Win

N/A

Roxio

ECD_Xtra

Reports space left on CD after CD-Audio session has been written.

0

Win, Mac

 

The European Enhanced CD Information Center

Firefly Xtra

Burns CDs or DVDs from Director. Supports ISO, AudioCD, MixedModeCD, UDF, DVDVideo, VideoCD, SuperVideoC.

299.00

Win

D7-10

MediaMacros

MacImage

Utility to produce hybrid Macintosh/PC (HFS/ISO 9660) CD-ROMs and DVD-ROMs on a PC.

€35

Win

N/A

Logiciels & Services Duhem

Nero

CD and DVD burning as well as tools to organize and manage multimedia files, as well as create and edit new digital content.

79.99

Win

N/A

Nero

Toast Titanium

CD and DVD burning as well as include AVCHD camcorder video conversion, support for creating Blu-ray and HD DVD discs, internet audio stream recording, and more.

99.99

Mac

N/A

Roxio

Database

ADOxtra

Retrieve or modify data in MS Access files, MS SQL Server and Oracle databases, ODBC compliant databases from authoring and projector locally and over LAN and from Shockwave over Internet.

299.00

Win, SW

D7-10

XtraMania

ADOxtra_MUS

The xtra for Shockwave MultiUser Server that allows using ADO/OLEDB/ODBC SQL queries at server side.

399.00

Win, SMUS

D7-10

XtraMania

Arca Database Xtra

A cross platform database solution specifically engineered for Director developers, with SQL syntax.

€99

Win, Mac

D8.5-11

Tabuleiro

DataGrip / DataGrip Net

Read and write to Access or ODBC-compliant database over the internet. Shockwave-safe.

249.00

Win, SW

D5-10

Integration New Media

dmmMDB

The Xtra dmmMDB enables to work with database files Microsoft Access (mdb) in Adobe Director and Authorware. To access the mdb database it uses database engine Microsoft.Jet OLEDB.

127.00

Win

D8-11

Studio dmm

FileFlex

Fast, cross-platform, relational database engine for multimedia, designed for creating CD-ROMs, kiosks, and interactive multimedia projects.

295.00

Win, Mac

 

FileFlex Software

INM GoldenGate Xtra

Read/write/search any ODBC-compliant database. Supports SQL syntax.

895.00

Win, Mac, SW

D7-10

Integration New Media

INM VizionDB

The next generation of INM V12 Database Engine. Database management tool for all levels of developer. Easy to get started with INM SnapGUI(TM) components and behaviors. Also supports script SQL and Lingo-style methods. Also includes free comprehensive Database Editor to import/export and massage data.

499.00

Win, Mac, SW

D9-10
D11 in dev

Integration New Media

Melix Database Xtra

SQL syntax, compression, support for Director media types.

89.95

Win, Mac

D6-10

Meliora Software

OpenDBC

Enables ODBC access to external database.

£200

Win, Mac, SW

D4-10
D11 (Win)

Brummell Associates

SQLite Xtra

SQL-capable database.

0

Win, Mac

 

Valentin Schmidt

UltimateDBIO

Create Database Connections with any database type such as SQL, MySQL, Access, Excel.

169.00

Win

 

Art Reaction

Valentina for Director

Cross-Platform Relational database. Supports REGEX search, SQL query, BLOBs, XML import/export. Shockwave safe. Local and true standalone server versions.

199.99

Win, Mac

D8.5-11

Paradigma Software

WebDB

Allows Director to communicate to server-side ODBC databases across the web.

£200

SW

 

Brummell Associates

Date / Time

cXtraCalendar

Display a calendar.

€25

Win

D8-10

cXtra

DateTimeXtra

Returns date and time related information, local and UTC. Microseconds and CPU load, Julian Date, moon phase and more.

€29

Win, Mac, SW

D8-11

Scirius Development

Device Control

ATI Image Capture Xtra

Captures images from ATI's All-In-Wonder card. The newer replacement for this Xtra is the WDMInput Xtra.

180.00

Win (95, 98, Millenium)

 

Dirigo Multimedia

cXtraJoystick

Read joystick input.

€25

Win

D8-10

cXtra

cXtraTwain

Capture image from any TWAIN-compliant device like scanner, digital cam.

€50

Win

D8-10

cXtra

DirectCommunication Xtra

Serial port communication.

249.00

Win, Mac, SW

D5-10

DirectXtras

DirectControl Xtra

Process joystick input.

149.00

Win, Mac, SW

D5-10

DirectXtras

dmm_CDEext

Controls CD audio.

79.00

Win

D7-10

Studio dmm

EZIO Board

Interface board that allows Director to control external devices.

179.00

Win, Mac

N/A

NIQ Inc.

EZIO Xtra

Lingo interface to EZIO Board which controls sensors, lights, motors, etc.

0

Win, Mac

D7-10

Ben Chang

Joystick

Reports joystick position data.

0

Win

D8.5-10

Laurent Cozic

MagicVolumer Xtra
(in MagicTools Xtras Set)

MagicVolumer Xtra allows you to get and set system MIDI volume.

0

Win

D6-10

Meliora Software

ParaPort Xtra

Read/write parallel port down to pin level. Control printers, scanners, etc.

109.00

Win

D8-10

Great PC Tools Inc.

RavJoystick

Reads regular or force feedback joystick input.

149.99

Win

 

RavWare

Serial Xtra

Provides access the serial port on both the Windows and Mac platforms. There are functions to read from and write to the port in various forms such as strings.

75.00

Win, Mac

D11

Geoff Smith

TrackThemColors

Tracks elements in video-feed by color + brightness, returns 2 or 3D coords.

150.00

Win, Mac

 

Smoothware Design

Twain Xtra

Captures images from any TWAIN-compliant scanner, digital camera or other device to Director cast members.

149.00

Win

D6-10

Meliora Software

UsbAccessXtra(Beta)

Allows HID access to a USB device attached to the computer

 

Win, Mac

D8.5-D10

Geoff Smith

WDMInput Xtra

Can capture still images or running video including sound, and can play back AVI files to more than one monitor at a time. Also has features for tuning television channels with supported WDM DirectX hardware.

300.00

Win

 

Dirigo Multimedia

WebCamXtra

Captures images and analyzes image stream.

0

Win, Mac

 

Josh Nimoy

Dialog

cXtraComboBox

Standard Win combo-box dialog.

€50

Win

D8-10

cXtra

cXtraDateTimePicker

Displays calendar and returns date or date/time chosen by user.

€50

Win

D8-10

cXtra

cXtraDialogs

Standard Win open/save file, picture, printer setup, font picker, more.

€25

Win

D8-10

cXtra

EASY MUI

Drag and drop dialog design interface generates Lingo code for dialog.

0

Win, Mac

 

Gilles Untereiner

HandyDialog Xtra

Customizeable folder browser, message box, color picker, font picker, print, open, save dialogs.

24.95

Win

D6-10

Meliora Software

FileXtra

Provides methods to copy, delete, rename and move files and folders, as well as methods for volumes and system dialogs, among others.

0

Win, Mac

 

Kent

MUI Maker Utility

Easy visual design tool for MUI Dialog Xtra.

59.99

Win

 

RavWare

UltimateMUI

MUI creation from HTML forms with images and tables.

69.00

Win

 

Art Reaction

DVD

OnStage Xtra

Software playback of MPEG from Director.

99.00

Win, SW

D7-10

Visible Light

Encryption

Buddy File

Functions to read and write text and binary files, and save Director lists. The files can be encrypted using the Blowfish encryption.

75.00

Win, Mac

D10-11

Gary Smith

Buddy Web

Saves / retrieves Lingo lists or text files with encryption.

100.00

Win, SW

D8.5-10

Gary Smith

Crypto Xtra

Encrypts strings /files / members with AES encryption. Provides various checksum (CRC32, Adler-32), hash (MD5, SHA1, SHA256) and encoding / decoding (Hex, Base64, Base91, ASCII85, UUencode) functions.

0

Win, Mac

 

Valentin Schmidt

LingoFish

Lingo routines to implement BlowFish encryption of text.

0

Win, Mac

 

Robert Tweed

TEA Xtra

Encrypts / decrypts text using Tiny Encryption Algorithm.

29.99

Win

 

David Hu

vList Xtra

Saves / retrieves Lingo lists, locally or to a server, with AES encryption.

€99

Win, Mac, SW

D8.5-11

Tabuleiro

File

Attrib Xtra

Copy and delete files, set file attributes.

60.00

Win

D5-8

Media Connect

BinFile Xtra

Reads / writes / edits binary files.

0

Win, Mac

 

Valentin Schmidt

BinFileIO Xtra

Reads and writes to binary files.

0

Win

D8.5-10

Laurent Cozic

BinMaster Xtra

Reads and writes to binary files.

20.00

Win

D6-8

Intermedia

BinaryIO Xtra

Reads, writes and edits binary files. Read size limited only by memory.

100.00

Win, Mac

 

Dirigo Multimedia

BinaryXtra

Reads /writes binary data to a file.

0

Win

D7-10

XtraMania

cXtraFileIO

Reads and writes binary files. Returns header info for specific formats such as AVI, MP3.

€50

Win

D8-10

cXtra

DirectOS Xtra

Copy files, find path to app, print file using parent app, move cursor, generate mouseclick.

149.00

Win

D5-10

DirectXtras

FileXtra

Copy and delete files and folders, create folders.

0

Win, Mac

 

Kent Kersten

NameChum Pro

Batch prefix, suffix, date, timestamp, sequentially number files.

20.00

Mac

N/A

Yellowsoft

ProgressCopy Xtra

Copies files from CD (or any location) with optional progress dialog.

75.00

Win, Mac

 

Dirigo Multimedia

UltimateFileIO

Read and write text files with MD5 encryption.

49.00

Win, Mac

 

Art Reaction

File Format Support

Base64 Xtra

Base64 encodes and decodes binary and text strings.

0

Win

 

David Hu

cXtraExif

Returns embedded digital camera info from photos in JPEG or TIFF format.

€50

Win

D8-10

cXtra

cXtraRTF

Displays RTF files in Director.

€50

Win

D8-10

cXtra

dmmRVF

Displays, edits and saves RVF format documents in a sprite on stage. RVF is a rich text format.

97.00

Win

D8-10

Studio dmm

dmmXLS

The dmmXLS Xtra is designed to allow you to work with Microsoft Excel files in Adobe Director. One big advantage of dmmXLS is that you do not need to have Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Jet Provider or any other programs installed on your computer. The library works standalone, making it ideal for CD-ROM applications.

197.00

Win

D8-11

Studio dmm

INM Impressario

View, navigate, print, create and modify PDF documents. No Adobe Acrobat/Reader required. Display PDFs on stage as sprites with ability to overlay graphics, and use transparency and ink effects.

439.00

Win, Mac, SW

D8.5-11

Integration New Media

INM PDF Xtra

The true Adobe Reader look & feel from within Director. Displays PDF documents as sprites on stage, using Adobe Reader in Windows. Launches PDF in separate application window on Mac OS X. Predecessor to Impressario (see above).

379.00

Win, Mac, SW

D8.5-10

Integration New Media

MediaPlayer Xtra

Provides support for MPEG, DIVX, AVI, WMF video formats and MP2, MP3, WAV, MIDI, AIFF audio formats and other files.

125.00

Win, SW

D6.5-11

StarSoft Multimedia

MediaPlayer Expanded Xtra

Continuation of MediaPlayer Xtra (above) with new functionality of video control.

149.00

Win, SW

D8-11

StarSoft Multimedia

MIDI Class

Parent Script for reading, writing, analyzing, modifying, and creating standard MIDI files (*.mid, *.rmi) of type 0 or 1.

0

Win, Mac

 

Valentin Schmidt

Mpeg Advance Xtra

Plays MPEG video from Director.

€99

Win, Mac

D8.5-11

Tabuleiro

OLE Xtra

Together with VbScriptXtra can embed OLE objects in Director movie. Supports on the fly creation of OLE objects, editing them if the host application supports Automation. Supports embedding PowerPoint presentations and running them right on stage under full scripting control. Part of ActiveCompanion Set.

0

Win

D7-11

XtraMania

PDF Class

A Lingo based solution for creating PDF files.

0

Win, Mac

 

Valentin Schmidt

PDFCreator Xtra

An Xtra for PDF creation based on the commercial PDFlib library. Due to licence restrictions of this library it can only be used for non commercial or open source projects (see "PDFlib-license.pdf" that comes with the xtra).

0

Win

 

Valentin Schmidt

SmartOLE Xtra

Displays any OLE document in a Director sprite.

49.00

Win, SW

D6.5-11

StarSoft Multimedia

Unrar Xtra

Extracts RAR compressed files.

0

Win

 

Valentin Schmidt

xMedia 2

Plays Windows Media Files inside Director, offline, online or streaming.

70.00

Win

D8-8.5

DV electric

zLibXtra

Zips and unzips files with optional password protection.

0

Win

 

Valentin Schmidt

Fulltext Search

dmmFTS

DmmFTS is a software tool for fulltext index generation and fulltext searching in Adobe Director and Authorware.

97.00

Win

D8-11

Studio dmm

Index Xtra

Fulltext search for HTML cast members.

399.00

Win, Mac

D6-8

Media Connect

INM Searchable Library (Essential Pack)

Combines the power of INM VizionDB and INM Impressario to allow full-text searching through a collection of PDF documents. Variety of search options available, including proximity, relevancy ranking and complex Boolean searches. Also allows searching through document metadata (Title, Subject, Author, Keywords, Dates).

699.00

Win, Mac, SW

D9-10
D11 in dev

Integration New Media

PRegEx - Regular Expression Xtra

Free, open source, Xtra that brings the power of Perl regular expressions and list handling to Lingo.

0

Win, Mac

D7-11

openxtras.org - Chris Thorman, Ravi Singh

String Handler Xtra

Fast search and replace and many other string operations.

0

Win

D8-10

Minds Eye Visualisation Services Ltd.

TextCruncher Xtra

Fast real-time search and replace of text. No prior indexing needed. URL encoding.

€99

Win, Mac, SW

D8.5-11

Tabuleiro

UltimateIndexer

Indexing and searching HTML and text file content

59.00

Win

 

Art Reaction

Graphics

AdjustColors

Adjusts brightness, saturation and RGB levels of image cast member on the fly.

50.00

Win, Mac

 

Smoothware Design

AlphaMania

Dynamic anti-aliasing and transparency using the artwork's alpha-channel. Extended with 'Effector Sets' plug-ins for on-the-fly visual effects such as free-rotate and scale.

199.00

Win, Mac

D5-10

Media Lab,Inc.

awaImage Xtra

Image I/O Xtra that supports major file formats of BMP, JPG, TIFF, PNG, GIF, TGA, PSD.

180

Win, Mac

D11

E-CRAFT

BitChecker

Allows searching an entire project for cast members with incorrect bit depths and/or palettes

£20.00

Win, Mac

D7-10

Design Lynx Ltd.

BlurImage

Applies blur filter to image cast member at runtime on the fly.

50.00

Win, Mac

 

Smoothware Design

Brenda the Batch Renderer

Batch dithering to a super palette.

60.00

Win

N/A

Gary Gehman

cXtraGraphicEffect

Apply graphic effects to members at runtime.

€50

Win

D8-10

cXtra

cXtraGraphicIO

Exports bitmap members to files and loads files into members at runtime.

€50

Win

D8-10

cXtra

cXtraFlameFX

Adds a flame effect to bitmaps or text.

€50

Win

D8-10

cXtra

cXtraPieChart

Display pie chart from supplied data.

€50

Win

D8-10

cXtra

DirectImage Xtra

Exports image and text members to many file formats. Can export from Shockwave.

199.00

Win, Mac, SW

D5-10

DirectXtras

Eye Candy

Stunning Photoshop filters for creating for Texture effects (such as snake and lizard skin), Nature (fire, smoke), Impact (chrome, brushed metal, glass, bevels, refections).

99.00

Win, Mac

N/A

Alien Skin Software

f3Export Xtra

Exports cast members in BMP and JPG format on Windows and PICT and JPG on Mac. Director 5 only.

0

Win, Mac

D5

Focus3

Fireworks

Imports Fireworks layers as separate aligned members. Preserves JScript behaviors.

299.00

Win, Mac

N/A

Adobe

FreeRotate

Rotates image cast member in 1 degree resolution on the fly.

50.00

Win, Mac

 

Smoothware Design

ImgXtra

Scripting xtra based on the FreeImage graphic library. Some features:
- Supports import/export of various image formats
- Loads (big) images in a new thread (asynchronous)
- Extracts embedded thumbnails and metadata from EXIF headers of JPGs
- Performs lossless transformations (rotation or flipping) on JPEG files

0

Win, Mac

 

Valentin Schmidt

PhotoCaster

Import Photoshop files directly and dither to 8-bit. Recognizes Photoshop layers.

199.00

Win, Mac

D5-10

Media Lab,Inc.

QuickVector Xtra

Direct access to GDI calls that are faster than imaging Lingo.

not available

Win

N/A

Josh Nimoy

RavWare Image Export Xtra

Exports member, stage to file or clipboard. Supports JPEG, PNG, TIFF, CUR, ICO, BMP, RLE, TGA.

169.99

Win

 

RavWare

SuperCropper

MIAW tool movie that batch crops and renames bitmap cast members.

0

Win, Mac

 

Tim Barton

Table Xtra

Creates scrollable grids of cast members. Each group takes only one sprite channel.

300.00

Win, Mac

 

Electronic Ink

The Minds Eye BézierCurve

Create 2D and 3D Bézier curves for drawing, animation and effects. Import 3DS MAX splines.

£29.99

Win

D8-10

Minds Eye Visualisation Services Ltd.

UltimateJPG and QuickTime Export

Exports cast members (including text) as a JPEG or QuickTime movie.

30.00

Win, Mac

 

Art Reaction

XGetColor

Color management, screen color picker and more.

20.00

Win

 

MagicSoft

Help / Documentation

Customized Director Help

Customized Lingo Keyword Dictionary.

0

Win, Mac

D8.5-11

Alex da Franca

RoboHelp

Creates Help systems and documentation for desktop and web-based applications, including .NET and Rich Internet Applications

999.00

Win

N/A

Adobe

Import / Export

awaImage Xtra

Image I/O Xtra that supports major file formats of BMP, JPG, TIFF, PNG, GIF, TGA, PSD.

180

Win, Mac

D11

E-CRAFT

Buddy File

Contains functions to read and write text and binary files, and also save Director / Authorware lists.

60.00

Win, Mac

D10-11

Gary Smith

Buddy Web

Saves / retrieves Lingo lists or text files with encryption.

100.00

Win, SW

D8.5-10

Gary Smith

Clipboard Xtra

Allows copy and paste of anything to/from the clipboard.

0

Win, Mac

 

Valentin Schmidt

cXtraRTFEditor

Loads, edits, saves RTF documents.

€50

Win

D8-10

cXtra

cXtraStringGrid

Displays and edits a text grid for spreadsheet-like data.

€50

Win

D8-10

cXtra

DirectImage Xtra

Exports image and text members to many file formats. Can export from ShockWave.

199.00

Win, Mac, SW

D5-10

DirectXtras

f3Export

Exports castmember to PICT, JPG.

0

Win, Mac

D5

Focus 3

HTML Xtra

Imports HTML into formatted text member with hyperlinks. No 32K limit.

129.00

Win, Mac

D6-9

Media Connect

MP3 Xtra

Converts external file or a sound member to MP3 format.

0

Win

 

Valentin Schmidt

Ogg Xtra

Converts external file or a sound member to Ogg Vorbis format.

0

Win

 

Valentin Schmidt

PeetsDraw

Draw functions and a trails substitute to be used with the Director Java Exporter. Requires JDK.

0

Win, Mac

 

Detlef Beyer

PhotoCaster

Import Photoshop files directly and dither to 8-bit. Recognizes Photoshop layers.

199.00

Win, Mac

D5-10

Media Lab,Inc.

propSave Xtra

Saves and retrieves Lingo lists to files.

0

Win, Mac

 

PiMZ Xtras

QTMovie Xtra

Creates or edits QuickTime files under Lingo control and returns info about them.

€150

Win, Mac

D8.5-11

Scirius Development

RavWare Image Export Xtra

Exports member,stage to file or clipboard. Supports JPEG, PNG, TIF, CUR, ICO, BMP, RLE, TGA.

169.99

Win

 

RavWare

swfExport Xtra

Can be used to export vectorshape members or embedded flash members as swf files.

0

Win, Mac

 

Valentin Schmidt

vList Xtra

Saves/retrieves Lingo lists, locally or to a server, with AES encryption.

€99

Win, Mac, SW

D8.5-11

Tabuleiro

Installer

AutoPlay Menu Studio

Create CD/DVD autorun menus, interactive presentations, multimedia applications, and custom software that can front end a Director project.

395.00

Win

N/A

Indigo Rose Corporation

GK Setup

Createsl self-extracting setup files, can display license and readme texts, manages Start Menu entries, and creates an automatic uninstaller.

99.00

Win

N/A

GkWare

HJ-Install

Create install directories, copy files into them, create program-groups and -items, copy whole directory structures, and interact with the end-user.

0

Win

N/A

Henk Hagedoorn

INF-Tool

Uninstall, single EXE, create shortcuts, edit registry, INI, create CAB, language support.

59.00

Win

N/A

Inner-Smile

Inno Setup

Supports creation of a single EXE for program installations, complete uninstall capabilities, creation of shortcuts, registry and INI entries. Support for passworded and encrypted installs. Integrated Pascal scripting engine

0

Win

N/A

Jordan Russell

Install Factory

Cross-platform integrated installer and protection - licensing, run and time limit. Comes with a Xtra and detailed documentation.

179.95

Win, Mac

N/A

The Deltic Group, Inc.

InstallCreator

Creates a single compressed distributable EXE file, allows customized screes, text, creates icons in start menu, complete uninstaller, ability to remove keys from the registry, multilingual templates.

59.00

Win

N/A

Clickteam

Installer VISE Mac

Point and click interface, span disks, uninstall, customize splash.

500.00

Mac

N/A

MindVision Software

Installer VISE Win

Point and click interface, copy files, built-in compression.

695.00

Win

N/A

MindVision Software

InstallShield Express

Creates reliable Windows Installer (MSI) installations. Comes with an easy-to-use Project Assistant / wizard that guides you through the MSI installation authoring process. Can create patches and updates, add registry keys.

499.00

Win

N/A

Acresso

Nullsoft Scriptable Install System

NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) is a professional open source system to create Windows installers. It is designed to be as small and flexible as possible and is therefore very suitable for internet distribution.

0

Win

N/A

Nullsoft Inc.

QuickInstaller Maker (QIM)

Copies files to specified directories. Displays custom splash, readme.

20.00

Mac

N/A

Rocco Moliterno

Setup Factory

Creates complete installers via drag´n´drop, can be customized in terms of colors, themes and graphics easy handling, yet powerful possibilites (e.g. online setups), can be programmed using the LuaScript language to allow advanced controls such as reading/writing values to the registry, executing external files.

495.00

Win

N/A

Indigo Rose Software Corporation

Setup Factory for Windows Installer

Contains features of Setup Factory but creates MSI packages (rather than EXEs) which are MS Installer compliant (which allows for more options).

495.00

Win

N/A

Indigo Rose Software Corporation

Tarma Installer

Copy files, get system info, read registry, INI files.

398.00

Win

N/A

Tarma Software Research

TrueUpdate

Creates an external update application which can check back to a website if there are updated to be loaded and installed. Works with all other products from the Indigo Rose Suite. Can be scripted in LuaScript. Allows customizable dialogs with themes and colors.

495.00

Win

N/A

Indigo Rose Software Corporation

UPX - Ultimate Packer for eXecutables

Compresses EXEs and DLLs that decompress themselves when they load.

0

Win

N/A

Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer, László Molnár & John F. Reiser

Visual Patch

Visual patching application which allows the creation of differential patches to be applied to a software (for bug fixing or updates), can be scripted via LuaScript. Very efficient and nice to handle, comes with customizable dialog boxes..

495.00

Win

N/A

Indigo Rose Software Corporation

Wise Installation Studio

System info, version and disk space checking, file copying.

1,199

Win

N/A

Wise Solutions

Internet

asUDP Xtra

Send and receive UDP.

€50

Win, Mac, SW

D8.5-11

Antoine Schmitt

BLATXtra

Free Xtra which allows you to send email from within Director. It uses the BLAT DLL

0

Win

 

Christophe Leske

cXtraSendMail

Send email.

€25

Win

D8-10

cXtra

cXtraWebBrowser

IE web browser in a sprite.

€50

Win

D8-10

cXtra

DirectConnection Xtra

Detect active dial-up internet connection. Makes, breaks and monitors a connection.

149.00

Win, Mac

D5-10

DirectXtras

DirectEmail Xtra

Compose and send e-mail with attachments.

199.00

Win, Mac, SW

D5-10

DirectXtras

DirectFTP Xtra

Upload, download, get directory listing, rename/delete file or directory.

249.00

Win, Mac, SW

D5-10

DirectXtras

DirectSMS Xtra

Send/receive SMS messages via internet to mobile phones, pagers.

249.00

Win, Mac

D5-10

DirectXtras

goMU

Simplified interface to MU Server implemented as linked Director movie.

75.00

Win, Mac

D8-10

Rebus

INM Moka Xtra

Executes methods and accesses fields in Java objects from Lingo.

499.00

Win, Mac, SW

D7-10

Integration New Media

INM SecureNet Xtra

HTTPS, HTTP from projector, Shock or authoring. Supports proxy authentication, synch, asynch mode.

199.00

Win, Mac, SW

D7-10
D11 in dev

Integration New Media

IPNetMonitor

Reports debugging info on TCP connection. Includes DNS, traceroute tools.

60.00

Mac

N/A

Softworks

MailTo Xtra

Sends email via default mail client.

25.00

Win

D6.5-11

StarSoft Multimedia

ShockFiler Xtra

Saves text, image, sound and vList data via FTP from Shockwave and projectors.

€99

Win, Mac, SW

D8.5-11

Tabuleiro

UltimateEmail

EMail text files or HTML with attachments.

59.00

Win

 

Art Reaction

UltimateFTP

Create, delete or append to text files on a server, or create, delete folders on server, a swell as get directory listings.

89.00

Win

 

Art Reaction

UltimateNet Xtra

Enables HTTP/FTP/PING with SSL/TLS through proxy and SOCKS in both projectors and Shockwave.

99.00

Win, SW

D6.5-11

StarSoft Multimedia

WebViewer Xtra

Embeds a browser in a sprite on the Director stage.

199.00

Win, Mac

 

Xtras.jp

WebXtra

Puts a web browser on the Director stage that you can control through Lingo.

€99

Win

D8.5-11

Tabuleiro

Kiosk

PowerKey

Detects system crash and restarts kiosk.

199.00

Mac

N/A

Sophisticated Circuits

Power-PAL

DTMF (touchtone phone) controlled kiosk reboot.

225.00

Win, Mac

 

Dataprobe

RS-232 Port-Powered Small

Small, mountable, credit card swiper designed for kiosks.

?

Win

 

Magtek

Keep It Up

Monitor and restart crashed system automatically or restart system at intervals. Remote internet connection.

22.00

Mac

 

Karl Pottie

TimeOut-2400

Auto-reboots if kiosk freezes. Remote boot by modem.

149.95

Win

 

TimeOut Devices, Inc.

Audiocorder

Autorecords when input volume reaches specified level and stops when input level falls below it.

20.00

Mac

 

Chris Smolinski

AutoBoot

Monitors Mac and auto-reboots if system freezes.

?

Mac

 

Karl Pottie

Keyboard Control Xtra

Intercepts Ctrl-Alt-Del and other shortcuts. Useful for protecting public kiosk apps from tampering.

89.95

Win

D6-10

Meliora Software

WinU

Replaces Win desktop with exit-proof controlled-access desktop.

59.95

Win

 

Bardon Data Systems

MemMax

Will auto-purge memory and manage memory to head off crash.

0

Win

 

Analogx

Xteq X-Setup

Customizes Win settings that can increase performance.

0

Win

 

Xteq

KeyBlock

Disables system keys to keep user from exiting kiosk app.

50.00

Win

 

Phord Software

Sesame

Presents password screen on restart to prevent tampering.

10.00

Mac

 

Objective Software

Lingo Code / Behaviors

Animation Math in Lingo

Code and example movies for 2D and 3D animation.

0

Win, Mac, SW

D8.5-11

J McKell

Behavior Demonstrations

Director source files containing demonstrations on 3D, Imaging Lingo, geometry, text and other areas.

0

Win, Mac, SW

D8.5-11

James Newton

Chrome Lib

Set of behaviors for controlling properties and interaction with 3D content.

29.95

Win, Mac, SW

D8.5-11

Karl Sigiscar

ISOinteractive GLIDER Behaviors

Used to display smooth movement for grapical items or avatars in several ways.

19.95

Win, Mac, SW

D8.5-11

ISOinteractive

One Sprite Widgets

Behaviors and a related castlib for creating and using various 'widgets' (controls), including buttons, dropdown menu, treeview.

0

Win, Mac, SW

D8.5-11

Lingoworkshop

Open Widget System

Collection of scripts for creating various widgets (interface elements).

0

Win, Mac, SW

D8.5-11

Lingoworkshop

Reallingo Scripts

Behaviors for - Distance Detection and Animation, Go Place (jumping to markers and movies), MouseDown / Enter Offset, Font Changer, Clear Data (text/field)

0

Win, Mac, SW

D8.5-11

Art Reaction

Ultimate SelectionHiliter

Behavior that allows you to define default selections (from char to char) and the user gets to control viewing Next and Previous selections or even view all selections.

40.00

Win, Mac, SW

D8.5-11

Art Reaction

Ultimate DynamicScroller Script

Behavior that allows you to define a dynamic scroller for use with anything from text to graphics anything that requires control with a scrollbar.

55.00

Win, Mac, SW

D8.5-11

Art Reaction

Windows For Shockwave

Behaviors for Director 8.5+ that enables drag and drop creation of onstage windows, modal dialog boxes, and cascading menus. Allows multiple sprites to be treated as a unit, and supports creation and destruction of dynamic sprites, dynamic windows, dynamic menus, and dynamic families thereof.

124.95

Win, Mac, SW

D8.5-11

Jim Andrews

Xlib

Collection of movie scripts and parent scripts covering area like date, math functions.

0

Win, Mac, SW

D10

Lingoworkshop

Zav's Libraries

Code libraries and tutorials on how to use them

0

Win, Mac, SW

D8.5-11

Zav

Lingo Editing

Behavior

MIAW tool that creates behavior skeleton with property description list.

£25.00

Win, Mac

D7-8.5 & D11

Design Lynx Ltd

FindAll

MIAW tool that searches scripts for text.

0

Win, Mac

D8-11

Alex da Franca

jEdit

Programmer's text editor.

0

Win, Mac

 

Slave Pestov

Lingo Lang Module for BBE

Keyword, symbol, string and comment highlighting for BBEdit.

0

Mac

 

Rob Terrell

makeGBD Utility

Formats text documenting a behavior into a GetBehaviorDescription handler. (Click to download)

0

Win, Mac

 

Gretchen Macdowall

UltraEdit Lingo extension

Enables Ultraedit to highlight Lingo keywords in text and display a list of them to insert.

105.00

Win

 

IDM Computer Solutions Inc.

Mac / PC File Exchange

MacDrive 5

Mount Mac media (Jaz, Zip, floppy) on a PC.

49.95

Win

 

Media4 Productions

MacDisk

Reads Mac media on PC - floppy, ZIP, CD, external SCSI etc.

83.92

Win

 

Logiciels & Services Duhem

MacImage

Creates either a Mac HFS or hybrid disk image on PC for burning Mac CD from PC.

70.22

Win

 

Logiciels & Services Duhem

PC MacLan

Create Mac/PC network.

189.99

Win

 

Miramar Systems

Star Gate

Transfers files between Mac and PC over cheap null modem cable.

AU$50.00

Win, Mac

 

Kevin Raner Software

Timbuktu

File share, screen share, remote control other computer.

159.95

Win, Mac

 

Netopia

TransMac

Mounts Mac diskettes, CDs, SCSI drives (Zip, Syquest, etc).

64.00

Win

 

Acute Systems

Xchange Software

Read and format Mac disks on PC. Copy files between Mac and PC media.

249.00

Win

 

Optima Technology

Memory

DreamLight RAMLight

Memory monitoring utility.

9.95

Win, Mac

 

DreamLight

FreeMem

Monitors and displays free memory. Can clear memory to free specified amt.

20.00

Win

 

Plaxoft GmbH

MemoryInfo Xtra

Returns physical, virtual, in-use memory stats.

0

Win

 

Andras Kenez

Menu

Buddy Menu

Provides standard OS style popup menus.

40.00

Win, Mac, SW

D8.5-11

Gary Smith

cXtraPopup

Displays hierarchical popup from data supplied.

€25

Win

D8-10

cXtra

Handler Menu

Tool MIAW to list all handlernames of all scriptmembers in your director movie in a hierarchical menu. Requires
the Buddy Menu.

0

Win, Mac

D8 - 11

Alex da Franca

StarMenu Xtra

Customizable popup menu at fixed loc or set pos dynamically via Lingo.

99.00

Win, SW

D6.5-11

StarSoft Multimedia

TetonPop

Dynamic popup menu construction.

0

Win

D7-8

Peter Jensen, Teton Multimedia

UltimatePopUp

Control font style, font Size, define menu selection prior to menu processing, choose alignment type for the menu (Top, Left, Right, Bottom).

60.00

Win, Mac, SW

 

Art Reaction

MIDI

HyperMIDI XCMD

Sends MIDI commands and receives MIDI input. XCMD so not D7 compatible.

195.00

Mac

D6

EarLevel Engineering

IMidi Xtra

Sends and receives MIDI messages.

29.95

Win

D6-10

Meliora Software

MIDI Class

Parent Script for reading, writing, analyzing, modifying, and creating standard MIDI files (*.mid, *.rmi) of type 0 or 1.

0

Win, Mac

 

Valentin Schmidt

MIDlio Xtra

Scripting Xtra for real-time input and output of MIDI messages in Director.

99.00

Win, Mac

 

Audiomulch, Ross Bencina

SequenceXtra

Sends and receives MIDI commands. Can real-time edit tracks, record MIDI input.

249.00

Win, Mac

 

Sibelius Software Ltd.

XMidi

Receive and send MIDI info from Director.

30.00

Win, Mac

 

Troika Tronix

Mouse and Keyboard

CapsLockXtra

Returns the state of the capslock key.

0

Win, Mac

D5-11

Scirius Development

MouseWheel

Read the mouse wheel.

0

Mac

D8.5-11

Antoine Schmitt

MoveCursor Shockwave

Positions the cursor anywhere on the screen

0

Win, Mac, SW

D10-11

Gary Smith

SetMouseLoc Xtra

Positions the mouse pointer on screen.

0

Win

D8.5-10

Laurent Cozic

SetMouseXtra

Sets the mouse cursor to any position on screen.

0

Win, Mac

D5-11

Scirius Development

WheelMouse

Enables the use of a wheel mouse in Director.

0

Win

D8.5-11

Gary Smith

Multiuser

dmmXSC

dmmXSC is a socket client for connection to XML Socket Server - eClever, that supports Director and Authorware multiuser applications, games, chats. You can also create multiuse Web-CD applications.

0

Win

D8-11

Studio dmm

Nebulae MultiUserServer

MultiUser Server equivalent that runs on UNIX and Mac.

€199

Java

N/A

Tabuleiro

OpenSMUS

OpenSMUS is an open source multiuser server application implementing the Shockwave MultiUser protocol, to be used with Director movies and Shockwave games.

0

Unix, Linux, Mac, Win

N/A

Tabuleiro

XML Socket Server - eClever

eClever is a performant and simple XML Socket Multiuser Server, that enables in Adobe Flash, Flex, Director and Authorware to create multiuser applications, games for more players, chats etc.

127.00

Win

Server

Studio dmm

Print

cXtraPrinter

Prints from Director.

€60

Win

D8-10

cXtra

cXtraPrinterDoc

Creates rich-format docs with text or graphic areas that can be changed at runtime and printed.

€100

Win

D8-10

cXtra

cXtraPrintRTF

Print RTF files.

€50

Win

D8-10

cXtra

PrintOMatic Xtra

Prints stage or generated text, graphics and external files.

350.00

Win, Mac

D7-10,
D11 beta

Electronic Ink

Projector Icon

Axialis IconWorkshop

Creates and edits icons for Windows and Mac and applies these to projectors.

39.95

Win

N/A

Axialis Software

Hoolicon

Replaces Director or Flash projector icon.

0

Win

N/A

Goldshell Digital Media

IconForge

Change projector icon.

37.95

Win

N/A

CursorArts

Icon Resource

EXE utility fixes problems in D11 publishing options for adding an icon in the projector, allowing the change of the icon in the Projec32.skl skeleton file used in creating projectors.

0

Win

Supports D7-11

Josh Chunick

Microangelo

Replace the Director projector icon with your own.

54.95

Win

N/A

Impact Software

ProjectorLook Xtra

Sets icon for projector for use in taskbar and title bar.

25.00

Win

D6.5-9

StarSoft Multimedia

Resource and Icon Editor

EXE utiliy fixes problems in D11 icons when publishing. It properly supports Vista icons. It also allows the developer to alter the file and string version information.

0

Win

Supports D7-11

Josh Chunick

Sib Icon Editor

Create and edit projector icons in either standard or custom sizes. Can convert JPG or PNG into an ICO file that works for all versions of Windows including Vista.

0

Win

N/A

SibCode

Versiown

Changes Director projector EXE icon and alters the projector's file version description.

0

Win

N/A

Goldshell Digital Media

Protection

Castellan

Date or run limit projector. Tie software to one PC. Includes a Director Xtra.

£195

Win

discont.

PTT

CrypKey Instant

Require registration code, limit # of runs, limit # of days.

995.00

Win

 

Kenonic Controls Ltd.

Crypto++ SDK

Serialize, run or time-limit app.

295.00

Win

 

Sampson Multimedia

Install Factory

Cross-platform integrated installer and protection - licensing, run and time limit. Comes with a Xtra and detailed documentation.

179.95

Win, Mac

N/A

The Deltic Group, Inc.

KEY-LOK

Hardware dongle that protects software from piracy. Works with Director projectors.

19.95

Win

N/A

Microcomputer Applications, Inc.

Licence Protector

Provides protection of files through encryption and provided functions like time limitation, software copy protection, limit usage within a network and web activation. Supports Director created files.

375.00

Win

N/A

Mirage

P3 Serial Un-Support Xtra

Disables Pentium III serial number detection.

0

Win

 

Burak KALAYCI

Protection PLUS

Protection via serial #, number of uses, date-kill. Requires Glu32 Xtra.

429.00

Win

 

HALLoGRAM Plublishing

SecuROM

Copy protects CDs.

?

Win

 

Sony

Sisyphus DLL

Prevents CD duplication by writing to unused area. Requires Glu32 Xtra.

?

Win

 

OK Media Disc Service

UltimateProtect/License

Protects applications with the Rainbow (Sentinel) dongle.

30.00

Win, Mac