Never test a Director-projector with external casts when Director is open.

It’s an old trap, but I had me again yesterday.
After spending 2 hours wondering why my projector gave me errors, while running it inside Director went just fine.
It suddenly hit me. I was using external casts. So they are locked when you’re still running Director, and you’ll get cast member not found errors (if you have the right .ini configured, otherwise you’ll just get script errors).

I had to do all this on a VNC connection to an installation somewhere in the countryside on a machine that was constantly rebooting (that was the error I was trying to solve). It turned out to be a hardware-failure, GRRRRRR

Crossplatform Director sqlite and flash don’t work well together

In fact the problem lies with director 2004 not being able to handle utf8.
I had to create 2 sqlite databases. MacRoman encoded for mac and iso-8859-1 for windows.
Fortunately it had a PHP-backend for filling the database, so converting was a piece of cake.
But still…….