Problem with Browser Sampler Stack in Rev/Mac 2.8.1

Bob Warren bobwarren at howsoft.com
Mon Jun 4 23:16:14 EDT 2007


YOOHOO!! ANYONE OUT THERE WITH A MAC MINI?


Bob Warren wrote:
> With regard to the problem discussed below, I really don't know where 
> to start in order to help with the diagnosis, except to note that the 
> said Rev example stack seems to be behaving in a different manner on 
> different Mac computers.
>
> I am experiencing the problem on a Mac Mini. As a starting point, 
> would somebody else with a Mac Mini be kind enough to try out this 
> stack? Richard? I believe you have one, don't you?
>
> Thanks,
> Bob
>
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>
> On Sun, 03 Jun 2007 00:10:22 -0300, Bob Warren wrote:
>
>
>
>>> > > Bought myself a Mac Mini, Installed 2.8.1, navigated to the 
>>> Browser > > Sampler.rev stack in 2.8.1-gm-1/Resources/Examples, 
>>> activated stack, > > clicked on the "Launch Browser" button and got 
>>> an error message > > "unknown browser id".   :'(  > > > > Does it 
>>> work for anybody else?
>>>     
>> >     
> Ken Ray wrote:
>
>
>> >It works here for me, but I did have a similar problem the first 
>> time I   
> used it. But I closed Rev, reopened it, reopened the Browser Sampler, 
> and this time instead of clicking on "Launch Browser", I paged forward 
> to the 5th page of the documentation stack entitled "A Simple 
> Browser", and that worked for me. From then on the stack worked 
> flawlessly, including the "Launch Browser" button. Don't know why..
>
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> Ken, I've just tried following your method and it works, but with 2 
> differences:
>
> 1) There is no "cure". I always have to open the simple browser on p5 
> before the button on p1 will work.
> 2) Before navigating to p5, I need to try (and fail) with the p1 button.
>
> So to get the example to run ever, the sequence is p1 (with failure) > 
> p5 (OK) > p1 (OK).
>
> The other day I tried knocking up my own little stack from the example 
> given in the Newsletter last month. That didn't work either, but I put 
> it down to the entity sitting in front of the keyboard.
>
> There is indeed stuff here! Must be my punishment for abandoning my 
> beloved Ubuntu for 10 minutes!
>
>
>
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