Resolution 2.0 UB xtra is done and it can be downloaded from director-xtras.com.
…and yeah, I know, the director xtras site needs some work. 
Next up is an update to the Windows version of the eCommerce Xtra with their latest SDK. There won’t be an integrated version for Intel Mac but I am looking into the embedded web store for Mac. As for the MoveCursor Xtra, I’m just waiting on the Verisign Cert.
I finally finished debugging the port of the UB version of the Resolution Xtra for Director 11 last night. You can now indpendantly change the resolution of up to 128 monitors, hide any of the desktops independently with their own color, check if a monitor is stretched and more. The function get_display_modes() will now let you check for all safe and supported screen sizes of any chosen monitor. Here is what the message table will look like:
-- xtra Resolution -- version 2.0.0.r80423 -- xtra Resolution new object me, * serialNumber -- Init the Xtra test_resolution object me, integer Width,integer Height,integer Depth,
integer display set_resolution object me, integer Width ,integer Height,integer Depth,
list colors, float seconds, Integer display, Boolean stretch reset_resolution object me, integer display get_displays object me get_display_modes object me, integer display get_current_display_mode object me, integer display is_current_mode_stretched object me, integer display center_stage object me, integer display +version object me get_error object me hide_desktop object me, integer r , integer g , integer b, integer display show_desktop object me, integer display hide_menuanddock object me show_menuanddock object me forget object me
All I have left to do now is update the docs and its web page. I will have it ready for download on Tuesday April 29 so check back again.
Resolution Xtra 2.0 for Mac. Yeah, it’s about time I wrote those words down. This Xtra has been re-written from the ground up to support Mac Intel version of Director.
The newest addition to the Resolution Xtra is a more accurate return from get_display_modes() and the inclusion of the #stretched property to the returned list. The #stretched property simply tells you if a resolution has the ability to be stretched on wide screen monitors. Here is an example snippet of my MacBook Pro display modes.
gRes = new (Xtra "resolution") put gRes.get_display_modes() -- [[1440, 900, 16], [1440, 900, 32], [1152, 720, 16], [1152, 720, 32],[1024, 768, 16], [1024, 768, 32], [1024, 768, 16, #stretched],[1024, 768, 32, #stretched], [1024, 640, 16], [1024, 640, 32],...
The function set_resolution() now has an extra Boolean parameter called stretch. As you might guess, if a resolution that you want to switch to has a stretch and non-stretched version this Boolean parameter will give you the option set it to stretched mode.
I’m debugging and testing another one of it’s new features. I will share it with you in my next post.
So, as some of might have seen, I posted a little blurb the other day saying this:
With a heavy heart and due to recent circumstances Andrade Arts will no longer be selling it’s Xtras. There will be no Mac Intel version. Due to the very high bandwidth, all shockwave safe versions of all Xtras have removed from the andradearts.com server.
I stared at the confirm dialog box button to upload that page for almost two hours before I finally clicked it. Ever since that moment I’ve been having doubts. Combine that with the emails I’ve received asking why I stopped, the offers to purchase the software, veteran Director developers wishing me luck and some schmuck hosting the Shockwave safe versions without permission, I’ve decided that this is not the time to stop.
A good friend suggested that I keep it up for a little while longer. His opinion means a lot to me and letting something go that I’ve been doing for ten years is hard. To hard…