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Download the Director 8.5 XDK

From this page you can download the Director 8.5 XDK and its documentation.

The Director 8.5 XDK is available in two different versions: a Windows version and a Macintosh version (which contains utilities and libs for both OSX and Classic).

Please note that Macromedia Technical Support does not provide technical support for Xtras development.

The Director 8.5 Xtra Development Kit (XDK) provides resources for developing extensions to Macromedia Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio, including the Sprite Xtra, Transition Xtra, Scripting Xtra, and Tool Xtra extensions. Documentation files in HTML format, and a complete list of updates since the previous XDK, are provided as part of this release. You can also develop Xtra extensions for version of Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio and the Shockwave 8.5 Player running on Macintosh OS X with this software kit. Note that this XDK does not yet document any interfaces used for the 3D features introduced with Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio, other than the vector/value interface that manages vector values.

 
Windows
Download the Director 8.5 XDK for Windows (3MB)
This zip archive contains the Windows version of the Director 8.5 XDK and the updated documentation. This file includes:

Examples: Project and source files for Xtra examples
Include: Header files needed for Xtra development
ReadMe: Material not included in the main documentation such as last minute additions to the XDK and an over view of developing Xtras.
readme.html: The ReadMe for the XDK
Docs: The documentation for the Director XDK including the addendum for Director 8.5.
Libs: Additional useful code libraries.

Note: Extract the zip archive using the -d option of pkunzip  to preserve the directory structure of the archive file. Download the PKZIP/PKUNZIP shareware.

 
Macintosh
Download the Director 8.5 XDK for Macintosh(3.2MB)
This self-extracting archive contains the Macintosh version of the Director 8.5 XDK and the updated documentation. This file includes:

Examples: Project and source files for Xtra examples
Include: Header files needed for Xtra development
Utility: Utilities needed for Xtra development
ReadMe: Material not included in the main documentation, such as an overview of developing Xtras.
readme.html: The ReadMe for the XDK
Docs: The documentation for the Director XDK includes the addendum for Director 8.5.
Libs: Additional useful code libraries.
Runtime: Header files for the runtime library which can be used for Macintosh Xtras.