running the Player

[Robert Brenstein]

Charles Hartman wrote:

I'm getting *nothing* -- just a splash / starup screen  with 
"Preparing..." and "Checking license..."

This is a known problem of player and has been reported in Bugzilla. 
It gets stuck when launching for some people. AFAIK it has something 
to do with some gimmicks to run in secure mode.

Robert



>Yeah, as I've said here before, the Player just isn't well 
>documented or understood.
>
>It *appears* to me that it is RunRev's intent that the Player should 
>*never* be launched directly, but only indirectly by double-clicking 
>on a stack. The problem, of course, is that you can't prevent users 
>from launching it.
>
>I think it should either:
>
>(1) Display message that says, in essence, "This is a Player. You 
>got to give it something to play with. Pick a stack file, 
>double-click it and then see how great it is"
>
>Or
>
>(2) Present with a file selection dialog (filtered for stacks if possible).
>
>But that's just me.
>
>
>On Aug 13, 2005, at 7:46 PM, Charles Hartman wrote:
>
>>
>>On Aug 13, 2005, at 9:03 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
>>
>>>Charles Hartman wrote:
>>>
>>>>When I launch the (OSX) Dreamcard Player by double-clicking the 
>>>>app  (not a stack), I'm getting *nothing* -- just a splash / 
>>>>starup screen  with "Preparing..." and "Checking license..." and 
>>>>a big right-facing  arrow. The arrow isn't clickable; nothing is; 
>>>>and the menu offers  nothing useful except Quit.
>>>>Clearly *not* what I want to instruct my Dreamcard-stack users to 
>>>>do.  But if the app is there (if they've downloaded both my stack 
>>>>and the  Player), some will do it anyway.
>>>>
>>>
>>>Agreed, it doesn't provide much guidance.
>>>
>>As far as I can see (??), less than that: it doesn't look as though 
>>it permits any action but quitting. (Not a useful application model 
>>. . .) I'm sure I'm missing something. But -- appearances sometimes 
>>to the contrary, I'm not a really naive computer user -- and if I 
>>can't find it, I *know* many of the people using my stack won't be 
>>able to either.
>>
>>
>>>What do you feel would make for a better user experience?
>>>
>>>For example, should it present a file selection dialog, or have 
>>>some sort of Home stack, or....?
>>>
>>
>>The former seems like the best idea; users are accustomed to those 
>>dialogs in all kinds of apps. The latter could be good. But there 
>>would have to be a really direct way for me, as developer, to make 
>>my stack available either as or from that "home stack".
>>
>>Charles
>>
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