RevBrowser: clearing its cache?

rodney tamblyn rodney.tamblyn at gmail.com
Sat Nov 19 21:07:52 EST 2011


Try adding a random param on end of file you are previewing, e.g "?3823". Does that help?

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On 20/11/2011, at 3:05 PM, Tereza Snyder <tereza at califex.com> wrote:

> Yeah, I thought for sure there’s be some kind of cache-disabling call but I haven’t discovered it. Since I’m building the pages with LC, previewing them in RevBrowser was a no-brainer--but not worth the agony of seeing a bug persist through one dreary iteration after another until finally the coin drops and you realize you fixed it on the first try, but you’ve just been looking at the same buggy over and over.
> 
> sigh.
> 
> On Nov 19, 2011, at 7:39 PM, stephen barncard wrote:
> 
>> That's a good question.  'Regular' Safari has a 'developer' mode and allows
>> "Disable Caches" which allows 'immediate refresh'.   I use this setting all
>> the time while developing online files.
>> 
>> Certainly there's a call in the toolbox for that.
>> 
>> sqb
>> 
>> On 19 November 2011 17:03, Tereza Snyder <tereza at califex.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> I’m using revBrowser to preview local html files that I’m developing for a
>>> website. I’m finding that unless I quit LC and start it back up, the
>>> revBrowser often doesn’t see my changes, especially of javascript files—as
>>> if it’s keeping a cache for those files. To be clear, I close all
>>> instances, close the stack, reopen the stack, and create a new instance
>>> between attempts to preview pages. The stack has its destroywindow set to
>>> true, but it is a substack of another stack I can’t close and reopen.
>>> 
>>> I've tried using revBrowserRefresh after loading a new page, and that
>>> works sometimes, but not every time.
>>> 
>>> Does anyone have a sure-fire way to force a revBrowser instance to reload
>>> all page components?
>>> 
>>> tereza
>>> 
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Tereza Snyder
>>> Califex Software, Inc.
>>> <www.califexsoftware.com>
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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>> 
>> 
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>> 
>> 
>> Stephen Barncard
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>> 
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