Still can not get revBrowser to load in standalone

Terry Judd tsj at unimelb.edu.au
Thu Aug 7 18:23:13 EDT 2008


Which reminds me, I think you have to use a toplevel window. Palettes and
modal don't work or at least cause problems (although modeless might be ok).

Terry...


On 8/8/08 8:19 AM, "Mark Schonewille" <m.schonewille at economy-x-talk.com>
wrote:

> Hi Tom,
> 
> Try making the same stack without custom shape. I had a case on
> Windows, where the custom shape prevented the browser object from
> being rendered.
> 
> --
> Best regards,
> 
> Mark Schonewille
> 
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> On 7 aug 2008, at 23:41, Thomas McGrath III wrote:
> 
>> Mark,
>> 
>> I answered some that I checked right away and the others I will look
>> into tonight and tomorrow. Get back to ya....
>> 
>> On Aug 7, 2008, at 3:55 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote:
>>> 
>>> Is all of the following true?
>>> 
>>> You
>> YES - have removed old versions of the external
>> YES - have double-checked that revBrowser.bundle is in the
>> application package
>> Did a test button in a substack. No results at runtime. - are making
>> sure that any execution errors are properly displayed in a dialog
>> while running a standalone
>> YES - are running OSX 10.5.4
>> - have made sure that the externalPackages of stack
>> "revExternalLibrary" contains "revBrowser" while running as a
>> standalone
>> - have checked that the externals property of stack
>> "revExternalLibrary" contains something like  "/Users/Tom/Desktop/
>> Test/MacOSX/Test.app/Contents/MacOS/Externals/revbrowser.bundle" and
>> on Windows it contains "C:/Documents and Settings/Tom/Desktop/Test/
>> Windows/Externals/revbrowser.dll"
>> - have made sure that the folder/file stated above actually exists
>> and the standalone checks this using syntax like "file... exists" or
>> "folder... exists" and the standalone shows an error message if the
>> file/folder doesn't exist
>> YES - have made sure that the rect property of the browser object is
>> set to an area that is visible on the card
>> - have double-checked this rect and your standalone displays it in a
>> field or dialog window after you have set the rect of the browser
>> object
>> - have checked that the revBrowserGet function returns the correct
>> rectangle
>> NO Stack is a custom window shape - aren't using any custom window
>> shapes
>> - have created an otherwise empty stack, which displays a website in
>> a browser object correctly while running as a standalone on both OSX
>> and Windows
>> - did not put your standalone at root level but it sits in a folder
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> What made you think that copying revBrowser.bundle to the root level
>> of the DVD would help?
>> Actually it was the opposite. In a previous Windows project from DVD
>> the externals would not load if they were at the root level so I had
>> to put them in a sub folder and change the path in only the windows
>> version to look deeper. So I tried putting the external in both
>> places during trials. But I can't get the Mac version to find the
>> MacrevBrowser which is 'inside'' the darned thing. So if I can fix
>> that then I can look at the windows version.
>> 
>> 
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Best regards,
>>> 
>>> Mark Schonewille
> 
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Dr Terry Judd
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Biomedical Multimedia Unit
Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry & Health Sciences
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