Director doesn't work properly

[sdfgsdfgsfdg webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

I'm using Director MX for a couple of months now, never encountered a problem. Last week I formatted my disk and installed everything again (WinXP, Director MX etc). Since then Director MX doesn't work properly.

When I start Director MX, the icons of the toolbar (tha bar underneath the bar with "File", "Edit" etc) don't appear, when I switch from a window to the window of Director MX, I still see parts of the first window in the window of Director in the Stage, Score, Cast etc.
And when I want add text at the Stage, I don't see a cursor (the I-cursor). It's also impossible to edit a button. I can't resize it or move it.

It may be clear that I can't work with Director anymore, but I need it at this moment, so does anybody know a solution? I would be thankful.

Michael.

[Charles Parcell webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

If you are having multiple problems with Director I would first suggest uninstalling it and then reinstalling it. If that fails, meaing you continue having multiple issues then I would chalk it up to a bad OS install. Unless you can pin the problem on some other application that is new to the install config that you did not previously have. I personally, would reinstall the OS, making sure to format the drive when reinstalling.

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[sdfgsdfgsfdg webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

I reinstalled Director MX for a couple of times now, but nothing changes. Formatting my disk and reinstall WinXP is something I want to do when nothing else solves the problem. Thanx for the advice, I try a couple of other things now and when that doesn't help, I reinstall WinXP.

Michael.

[Mark A. Boyd]

"sdfgsdfgsfdg" [email]webforumsuser@macromedia.com[/email] wrote in
news:btrpjr$aob$1@forums.macromedia.com:

> I reinstalled Director MX for a couple of times now, but nothing
> changes. Formatting my disk and reinstall WinXP is something I want to
> do when nothing else solves the problem. Thanx for the advice, I try a
> couple of other things now and when that doesn't help, I reinstall
> WinXP.

This symptom sounds suspiciously like a display driver issue. I would
see if there are newer drivers for the display card.

Also, make sure to turn off virus checkers (particularly Norton AntiVirus)
before (re)installing Director.


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Mark A. Boyd
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