ADOxtra (ADO for Director) v1.10

About,

System requirements,

How to purchase & downloads,

Contact information,

Disclaimer of Warranty - Licensing Agreement.

 

ADOxtra usage:

General information,

Common considerations,

Xtra initialization,

ADO object model,

Simple scenario,

Some advanced details,

Type casting issues,

Error handling mechanism,

Accessing databases over Internet and from Shockwave,

    Server configuration and security,

    Client side,

    Asynchronous operations,

    Shockwave settings,

    Shockwave sample.

 

ADOxtra reference:

Version history and known problems,

Xtra-level functions,

ADOxtra Connection object,

ADOxtra Recordset object,

ADOxtra Field object,

ADOxtra Property object,

ADOxtra objects common properties.

About

ADOxtra provides a way to use ADO (ActiveX Data Objects) from Macromedia® Director. So, ADOxtra allows you to retrieve or modify data in MS Access files, MS SQL Server and Oracle databases over LAN, ODBC compliant databases from authoring, projector or Shockwave. It is capable to access databases over Internet.

ADOxtra provides recordset based data accessing with automatic type casting that grants the ability to work with a database field value of those type that it is in a database. So integer database fields look like integer Lingo values and text database fields look like string Lingo values, etc.

Recordset based data modification (Full version only) is as simple as reading data. You just assign new value to a recordset's field. Data modification with transactions is supported.

See general usage information to see how may look your Lingo scripts accessing database.

ADOxtra performs database operations via MDAC. Microsoft® Data Access Components (MDAC) which includes ADO is a modern technology of database management. It is already installed with Windows 98/ME/2000, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Office and other software. So it is already present on the most of user systems. Installers for Windows 95/NT systems are available online at www.microsoft.com. The complete ADO documentation is available online at msdn.microsoft.com. Also see http://www.microsoft.com/data/ for more information about MDAC.

System requirements

Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000 with MDAC (Microsoft® Data Access Components) installed.
Note: MDAC is already installed with Windows 98SE/ME/2000, Microsoft Office, Internet Explorer and other software.
Macromedia Director or projector or Shockwave (v7 or higher). It is not compatible with earlier versions of Director.

How to purchase & downloads

ADOxtra is available to purchase at www.mediamacros.com.
Full and Lite versions are available. The Lite version is limited to data reading only. It does not support recordset based data modification.

Fully functional demo version is available here. (The only limitation is the number of records that recordset object instance is allowed to access). The demo is done as tutorial Director movie describing how to use ADOxtra to access databases locally and over Internet from Director or from Shockwave. Take a look on Shockwave sample to see how it works in real life. Also, you may download the ADOxtra castlib with several usefull handlers for using with ADOxtra.

Follow this link to purchase Full version.

Follow this link to purchase Lite version.

Contact information

To get technical support use support@adoxtra.com