Register your xtras

Our price system : for example when you purchase a 1.x version, all 1.[1-9] versions will be free.
When the version 2.0 is released, you will need to purchase a new license key to use the upgrade.
Of course, if you are happy to use a 1.x version and don't need to upgrade, your can keep your old
xtra and license key. We won't send backup of old versions, so don't lose them !

How to register your xtras :

In all cases : You don't have to include cXtraTools files in your projection !

All our xtras must be in the same directory when you are in the author mode of Director.
Like Director\xtras or Director\xtras\cxtra for a version older than Director MX 2004 and
Director\configuration\xtras or Director\configuration\xtras\cxtra for Director MX 2004.

If you don't know if your xtra is a script xtra, look this table :

Name	xtra type
cXtraCalendar	Visual
cXtraCD	Script
cXtraChangeRes	Script
cXtraComboBox	Visual
cXtraDateTimePicker	Visual
cXtraDialogs	Script
cXtraEditBox	Visual
cXtraExif	Script
cXtraFileIO	Script
cXtraFlameFX	Visual
cXtraGraphicEffect	Script
cXtraGraphicIO	Script
cXtraInfo	Script
cXtraJoystick	Script
cXtraPieChart	Visual
cXtraPopup	Visual
cXtraPrinter	Script
cXtraPrinterDoc	Visual
cXtraPrintRTF	Script
cXtraRTF	Visual
cXtraRTFEditor	Visual
cXtraRTFEditor upgrade x.x -> 2.x	Visual
cXtraSendMail	Script
cXtraShapeWindow	Visual
cXtraSoundRec	Visual
cXtraStringGrid	Visual
cXtraSystray	Visual
cXtraTransitionMorphing	Visual
cXtraTransitions	Visual
cXtraTransitions2	Visual
cXtraTransitions3	Visual
cXtraTreeView	Visual
cXtraTwain	Script
cXtraVideoCapture	Visual
cXtraWebBrowser	Visual
cXtraWindowsConf	Script

The script xtras are written in red in the cXtraTools (Look the first image in the next chapter).
You can read this tutorial about cXtraTools:

If you have problems to register your xtras, take a look at the FAQ page of this site, you will find usefull info about very specific cases. If you don't find the solution, you can mail us at info@cxtra.net

2 cases :

• You want to register a visual xtra
• You want to register a script xtra

 

 

First case : You want to register a visual xtra

You need the cXtraTools version 1.7 : Click HERE to download.
Place cXtraTools in the Director Xtras folder and go to the menu Xtras -> cXtra -> cXtra Licenses.
All your cXtras must be in the same folder.
Note that if you use a stub projector, you must add the cXtra in the stub castlib to register it.
You can place your license keys here :

Simply copy the key from our mail and paste it here.
You do this only once, after the visual xtras will be automatically registered, cXtraTools
keep the keys for you. cXtraTools can keeps your script xtra license keys too.

If you click on the "Check Versions" button you will see this window which permits to compare your local versions to the last versions :

New versions are written in blue on the right column. You can precise if you are behind a proxy.
If you see there is a new version you should visit http://www.cxtra.net to get more informations and download the update.

 

 

Second case : You want to register a script xtra

Scripts must be registred manualy before using the xtra :

Create a global variable named "g" + xtraname + "License" and set it to your license key like this :

on preparemovie

global gcXtraJoystickLicense

gcXtraJoystickLicense = "XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX"

end

You can store the keys with the cXtraTools as described in the first case but only this lines of code are used to register the script xtras. Attention if you use the clearglobals lingo command, you need to recreate the global variable to use the xtra.

Tip : you can do a right click on the license key you entered in cXtraTools to get the full line of text in order to paste it in your code :

 

Change History

V1.7	Added xtras update tool Added help download and update tool
V1.6	Added method to check the last versions of the xtras
V1.5	System changed a lot, cXtraScriptLicense is removed, cXtraTools is improved.
V1.2	Bug with pathname fixed : When the cXtraTools save your serials, it creates cXTraTools.ini which contains the keys. In version 1.1, if you opened Director by clicking on a .dir file, the path used by cXtraTools was wrong. Please check you don't publish any cXTraTools.ini with your projects. If you find this file in an other folder than director\xtras then delete it.
V1.1	License system modified
V1.0	First version