In general, all the ClickWorks presentations can run on Macintosh and on Windows 95 systems. However, while authoring the presentation on the Macintosh, the following issues must be addressed in order to make sure that ClickWorks presentations behave similarly on all computers on both platforms.
Media
- All the image formats that ClickWorks supports on the Mac are supported by ClickWorks Player for Windows. The images do not have to be enclosed with the final presentation.
– All the movie formats that ClickWorks supports on the Mac (i.e. QuickTime and Animated GIF) are supported by ClickWorks Player for Windows. QuickTime movies, however, must be "flatten" in order for them to play on Windows. A QuickTime movie is flat if it contains neither references to other movies nor resources. Apple's MoviePlayer 2.5 can be used to flatten movies. Movie files must be enclosed with the final presentation.
- To play sound in a cross platform presentation use either WAVE or QuickTime formats only. Note that on Windows 95 ClickWorks cannot play a QuickTime sound in parallel with any other sound file (QuickTime or WAVE). Sound files must be enclosed with the final presentation.
- For playable media to be played properly on Windows, the media files must have the correct file extension:
".mov" for QuickTime files, ".gif" for animated GIF files, ".wav" for WAVE sounds.
- Media Location: Obviously, the hierarchy of the ClickWorks project files must be preserved when transferring the files from the Mac to Windows. Moreover, the media must be located on the same disk partition as the presentation or else it will not be found on Windows.
Text
- In order for the text to appear at runtime exactly as at authoring time independent of font and platform concerns, one should rasterize the text while creating the Stand Alone presentation. Select 'Create Standalone' under the File menu. When the Rasterize Text option is used, all text in the presentation is turned into a bitmap except:
- Editable text boxes
- Text boxes into which text is assigned (as part of an "Assign" event) in the Event Palette
- Text which is part of Search Result boxes
- The display of text which is not rasterized will depend on the availability of its font during runtime. If the required font is installed on the computer at runtime, the text will appear in that font. Standard Macintosh fonts are mapped to standard Windows fonts as follows:
Macintosh:Chicago -> Windows:System
Macintosh:Courier -> Windows:Courier New
Macintosh:Geneva -> Windows:MS Sans Serif
Macintosh:Helvetica -> Windows:Arial
Macintosh:Monaco -> Windows:Terminal
Macintosh:New York -> Windows:MS Serif
Macintosh:Times -> Windows:Times New Roman
Additionally, font point sizes are changed, to compensate for different font handling on the platforms. The size mapping is as follows:
Macintosh:12 -> Windows:10
Macintosh:14 -> Windows:12
Macintosh:18 -> Windows:14
Macintosh:24 -> Windows:18
Macintosh:30 -> Windows:24
Font sizes within this range (12-30) will be mapped proportionally.
All other font sizes will be used as requested.
Finally, if the required font is not installed on the machine and if it is not one of the basic fonts mentioned before - the text will appear in Windows' default font.
- Text styles: If the Rasterize Text option is used, all styles can be applied to text.
Otherwise, use only Bold, Italic and Underline.
Interactivity
- 'Neon' and 'Glow' button effects are currently not supported on Windows. The effect is automatically converted to "Lighten" at runtime.
- 'Print' effects are currently not supported on Windows and will be ignored.
- 'Go To' and 'Launch' effects with a destination file on a different disk partition than the presentation's are currently not supported on Windows and will be ignored.
Misc.
- The suffix of the presentation name must be “.clw” for it to be launched by double-click on Windows. Remember to name the presentation properly when creating the Standalone version.
- There are currently no ClickWorks extensions available for ClickWorks Windows 95 Player.
What should be put on the presentation CD or disk?
- Macintosh: The (standalone) presentation with all its movie and sound files and ClickWorks (FAT) Player. No special installation procedure is required for Macintosh end viewers. They should double-click on the standalone presentation and ClickWorks Player will be launched.
- Windows 95: In addition to the (standalone) presentation with all its movie and sound files, a ClickWorks Player Installer must be enclosed. The Installer which is provided on this CD can be used. It installs ClickWorks Player, QuickTime 2.1 and DirectX 3.0. The Installer will also create a short cut to your presentation if you update the file projects.txt in the directory "Disk 1". Just edit this file to include the name of your presentation.
Runtime License Agreement
No royalties or payment of any kind is required to be able to distribute ClickWorks Player as part of your presentation or title.
However, there are a few terms you must comply with if you wish to commercially distribute a presentation created with ClickWorks. These terms are set forth in The Runtime Software Distribution License Agreement (found in the 'Runtime License Agreement' folder).
