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Director Xtras and Tools

Adobe Director Exchange - List of Xtras
Mediamacros Xtras Database
MediaMacros Developers Mall: Online store for Xtras and development tools for Director and Shockwave.
Director Mile-High Table O' Products: Contains detailed list of Xtras and utilities for Director
Director 11 Xtras: List of Xtras that have been updated to support Adobe Director 11
Installing Xtras

3DPI: The 3D Property Inspector can view and edit properties of Shockwave 3D members and sprites. Also allows saving of Shockwave 3D scenes and access to AGEIA PhysX engine properties and functions when using Director 11.
Alex 3D Tools: Save and restore a 3D scene, convert a model to a Lingo mesh.
Antoine Schmitt schmittMachine: Includes asFFT Director Xtra to compute realtime FFT (Fast Fourier Transform) on sound input, asPitchDetect Director Xtra to compute realtime pitch on sound input, asMultiChannelAudio Director Xtra to pilot more than 2 speakers, fluidXtra Director Xtra for a multitrack soundfont sound synthesizer and mouseWheel Director Xtra to read the mouse wheel.
Billenium Transitions Xtra: 14 families of transitions with lots of variations so you get hundreds of effects.
Calu: Provide Xtras to support additional media types through the Rosetta Xtra, PowerPoint Import Xtra, Data Linker Xtra (to link Director to various data sources including Access and Excel) and MD5 Hashing Xtra (encodes strings and files using the RSA MD5 Message Digest Algorithm).
cXtra: A variety of Xtras including inserting a calendar, managing CD drives, changing resolution, fire effect for images, graphic effects, pie chart, popups, printing, emailing, recording sound, transitions.
DelphiXtra: Developer of the DXLib library used to create Director Xtras using Borland Delphi. Also develop and sell a number of useful Xtras built using DXLib.
DesignLynx: Includes spell checking Xtras and Xtras to help write behaviors.
DigiCrafts: DaoX Xtra connects Director to databases such as MS Access.
DirectXtras: A range of Xtras from image manipulation and exporting, emailing, FTP, communication with devices connected to the system through the serial port, parallel port or USB serial adapter. Also make a number of transition packages for Director.
Dirigo Multimedia: Glenn Picher's Xtras - MasterApp Xtra, BinaryIO Xtra, ProgressCopy Xtra, DisplayRes Xtra.
DV electric: xMedia 2 Xtra enables Director and Shockwave applications to play all Microsoft Windows Media Player compatible audio and video files. Display Mode Xtra allows switching of the monitor resolution and color depth.
FileFlex: Relational database for Director.
fischhase: The dvd.duck Xtra allows Director presentations to be combined with DVD video content.
Havok: A fully integrated rigid body physics simulation engine for Director. See Havok Xtra Developer Site Archive, a site of resources relating to Havok, a fully integrated rigid body physics simulation engine for Director. Includes demos, downloads, documentation, tutorials, and FAQ.
Ice Storm Media Xtras: Offer the Text Box Xtra, which allows the use of a standard system Text Box member in Director.
IMS Interactive: 3D Lip Synchronization Tool Xtra for Director.
INM - Integration New Media: Includes Impressario Xtra for PDF integration, V12 Database Xtra, INM SecureNet Xtra to extend NetLingo, Moka Xtra to include Java and GoldenGate for managing and connecting to databases via rich-media clients through a TCP/IP network.
Intermedia Xtra: Offer various Xtras to allow change the shape of the display window for a projector, allow developers to read and save data in binary files, allow the use of several windows API dialog functions, and add to the transitions library.
Kent's Xtras: Free Xtras for manipulating files and folders, screen capture, manipulating multi-track QuickTime audio files, and to provide a list of running tasks.
Laurent Cozic's Xtras and Demos: Includes Xtras to freely download and shockwave and Lingo demos, most with source code. They include ability to monitor the 3D member properties, allow binary file input and output from Lingo, joystick control, ability to set the mouse location and ability to check if a point is inside a polygon.
Magic Modules: Home of Buddy API Xtra that contains over 100 functions for dealing with the Windows API and Macintosh Toolbox.Other Xtras include Buddy File, Buddy Web, Buddy Menu and Buddy saver.
Magicsoft: Offer a variety of Macromedia Director and Authorware Xtras from database support to color management.
Marmalade: Multimedia company and developer of Amplitude Xtra, which sends a continuous stream of amplitude values to Director while a sound is playing.
Media Connect: Multimedia company that develop a range of Xtras including the ability to remove the black border line from projectors and the ability to display html pages on the stage.
MediaLab: Photoshop and alpha channel Xtras.
Meliora Software: Xtras to provide control of MIDI devices, database management, drag and drop management capabilities, projector window management, dialog windows, twain retrieval, desktop control, keyboard control, registry access, and MagicRes and MagicVolumer Xtra available for free.
MindQuake: Offer PC Guard Xtra to access the internal data of PC Guard software protection and licensing system using Lingo, allowing the creation of demo/trial versions of projector files.
Minds Eye Visualisation Services: Xtras to able to call APIs in many Microsoft Win32 DLLs and third party Win32 compatible DLLs, give additional functionality for manipulating text strings. Alos have BézierCurve Xtra to create 2D & 3D Bézier curves for drawing, animation and effects.
Okino 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.
OpenSpark: Includes the OS Control Xtra for creating actual OS buttons & gadgets.
OpenXtras.org: Open-source Xtras for Macromedia Director, including the freeware Xtra PRegEx, which brings regular expressions and list utilities to Lingo.
Paradigma Software: Developer of Valentina for Director (V4MD), a royalty free, shockwave-safe, cross-platform, ultra-fast relational database Xtra. V4MD can operate locally as well as true client-server connectivity to Valentina Office Server. Supports REGEX search, SQL query, BLOBs, XML import/export.
PiMx PropSave: Save most of Lingo's datatypes directly to disk without conversion to strings.
PRegEx - Free, open source, Xtra that brings the power of Perl regular expressions and list handling to Lingo.
RavWare: Many Xtras including the Image Export, PP Viewer, Joystick, MUI Maker, and WinShaper Xtra, which customises the shape of a projector window.
Reallingo.cc - Provide Director behaviors and Xtras covering database connectivity, FTP, JPG export, MUI windows, email, transitions, menus and scrollers.
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.
Scirius Development: Free and commercial cross platform Xtras for Director to control the mouse, functions to get information related to the date and time, return the state of the Caps Lock key, allow Lingo to export animations to QuickTime movies, and to record audio from any Quicktime compatible sound input device.
Sharp Software: Offer Xtras to allow Director movies to be converted into applications that can be run on a PocketPC handheld computer, and to allow exporting of bitmap cast members to a variety of image formats.
Smoothware: Four Xtras - AdjustColors, BlurImage, FreeRotate, TrackThemColors and a Photoshop plugin - InputVideo.
SpriTec Software: Xtra to export Director bitmap cast members and Score layout information.
SPi-V: Shockwave 3D based panorama viewer, that can be used in Director movies or as a standalone application with the SPi-V Viewer.
StarSoft Multimedia: Offer various Xtras to allow support of video and audio formats, create popup menus, send email, and customise the appearance of projectors.
Studio dmm: Includes dmmXLS Xtra to allow Microsoft Excel files to be displayed in Director, without the need for Excel to be installed on the computer. Also provide Xtras to enable work with Microsoft Access database files, socket client for connection to XML Socket Server, enable work with XML documents, volume control, adjusting shapes of windows.
Tabuleiro: Includes ShapeShifter 3D Xtra, a low-cost modeling tool designed specifically for the Shockwave 3D, Mpeg Advanced Xtra, Audio Xtra, Arca Database, Web Xtra, Nebulae Multiuser Server.
Timehouse: Speech Xtra to allows use of SAPI-speech synthesizers in projectors.
Unifeye Viewer Xtra: Toolkit for creating augmented reality web-applications.
Visible Light: Xtras for Director and Authorware to provide support for a variety of video and audio formats, as well as connect DVD-video content into projects.
WebCamXtra: Incorporates realtime video input with Director movies.
Wired Studios Xtras: Director and Authorware Xtras to allow data encryption, sending email, control of sound cards, and to prevent debuggers, monitors, spy applications, memory monitors and reverse engineering tools from doing step-by-step tracing and monitoring of applications.
XtraMania: COM Automation/ActiveX xtras for Director. Full control over MS Office, IE, MediaPlayer, Photoshop. Databasing with ADO, ADOMD, DAO, JRO etc. System control with WMI, Shell, Windows Scripting Host, supports MSXML, CDO. Many modern Microsoft technologies right on Director's Stage.