[Xerte] Xerte3: on Mac?

Fri Jul 2 13:30:43 BST 2010

You could try making your own zn project from scratch and building
Xerte3Editor.swf - that's all you need I think, there's only one form,

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Peter
Huppertz
Sent: 02 July 2010 13:30
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Subject: Re: [Xerte] Xerte3: on Mac?

I opened it in Zinc (I installed the Mac Version) and built the project.
No error messages. It generates a zip file. I unzipped it and started
the application ... unfortunately it crashes immediately. I guess I have
to have a look at the Zinc settings.

On 02.07.2010, at 14:19, Julian Tenney wrote:

You got Zinc installed?

Open my .zinc file - try and build that in Zinc (build project) - what
happens? That ought to compile Xerte3.exe. In the options you can also
say 'compile for all platforms'. That will make the mac and linux
versions too.

Can you get that far? Anyway, isn't it your day off?

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Peter
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Sent: 02 July 2010 13:17
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Subject: Re: [Xerte] Xerte3: on Mac?

OK, I have my first successful built. But I'm not sure how to proceed.
How can I compile an executable for Mac?

On 02.07.2010, at 14:13, Julian Tenney wrote:

Sorry - that's mdm.swc, not mdm.swf. It's in the svn, I think
FlashDevelop needs telling about it.

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 02 July 2010 13:12
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Subject: RE: [Xerte] Xerte3: on Mac?

You need link in the mdm.swf somewhere in your project. I'd imagine
developing on Windows is going to be easier, unless you have some Flex
tools for the Mac (you could go with the command line to mxmlc but
that's not ideal).

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Peter
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Sent: 02 July 2010 13:06
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Subject: Re: [Xerte] Xerte3: on Mac?

So FlashDevelop is only available for Windows. It works so far but
throws a lot of errors that mdm .... something is missing, thats the
zinc stuff. I can download Zinc for Mac, but don't know if this works?
Or should I stick to Windows for development and mac for testing?

On 02.07.2010, at 13:56, Julian Tenney wrote:

Yes you do, but you only need the trial version

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Peter
Huppertz
Sent: 02 July 2010 12:42
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Subject: Re: [Xerte] Xerte3: on Mac?

I guess I need Zinc, too?

On 02.07.2010, at 11:52, Julian Tenney wrote:

Can you get the files into a position where you can build Xerte 3? That
would be good, because then you can work through the application from
top to bottom and try stuff. I'm a bit lost on a few things (like why a
new file dialog doesn't have  place to type a filename).

I can help you with that, but you already have FlashDevelop, and the
Flex 4 sdk, which is pretty much all you need.

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Peter
Huppertz
Sent: 02 July 2010 10:50
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Subject: Re: [Xerte] Xerte3: on Mac?

Standard, as far as I know is

\Users\NameOfTheUser\Documents, but I guess there should be something
like a var in Zinc for that? (Because it could perhaps differ in
different language versions?)

Does this answer your question?

Sorry, today's my free day, I'll only look sporadically at emails.

On 02.07.2010, at 10:20, Julian Tenney wrote:

OK, daft question number one:

In X3 on the Mac, File, New Project. Where am I supposed to write the
filename?

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 02 July 2010 09:10
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Subject: RE: [Xerte] Xerte3: on Mac?

For now, let's not worry about any helper executables like mxmlc and
ffmpeg - let's get the core Xerte 3 stuff working. I have Mac today to
try some stuff on, so please be ready to answer some seemingly daft
questions...

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Peter
Huppertz
Sent: 01 July 2010 17:03
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Subject: Re: [Xerte] Xerte3: on Mac?

perhaps there is property mdm provides to check which platform you are
on? But I agree, the system specific parts should be kept as low as
possible. You also have to strip of the .bat (but I'm not totally sure,
at least it is unusual to use it on Macs).

On 01.07.2010, at 17:58, Julian Tenney wrote:

I think if I switch all the \\ I tend to use in the windows paths for
the / in mac and web paths, I think they will still work fine on
windows, so that would be good,

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
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Sent: 01 July 2010 16:48
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Subject: Re: [Xerte] Xerte3: on Mac?

Found this in DocumentTree.as:

batStr = '"' + mdm.Application.path + 'flex4sdk\\bin\\mxmlc.exe"
-locale="" "' + css + '" -output "' + fileLocation + 'styles.swf"';

mdm.FileSystem.saveFileUnicode(mdm.Application.path +
'styles\\makeStyles.bat', batStr);

mdm.System.exec(mdm.Application.path + 'styles\\makeStyles.bat');

should be for Mac (guessing)

batStr = '"' + mdm.Application.path + 'flex4sdk/bin/mxmlc" -locale="" "'
+ css + '" -output "' + fileLocation + 'styles.swf"';

mdm.FileSystem.saveFileUnicode(mdm.Application.path +
'styles/makeStyles', batStr);

mdm.System.exec(mdm.Application.path + 'styles/makeStyles');

On 01.07.2010, at 17:41, Julian Tenney wrote:

Andy's going to bring his Mac in tomorrow, so I can see what's going on.
Hopefully there won't be too much to change, I might have some
(seemingly stupid) questions...

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Peter
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Sent: 01 July 2010 16:40
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Subject: Re: [Xerte] Xerte3: on Mac?

no, they don't. But there are shell scripts that do the same on Macs.

On 01.07.2010, at 17:35, Julian Tenney wrote:

Yes, it does. You can look in the code to see what's going on:
MainMenu.as in this case. I think I write out a bat file and execute it
- do Macs have .bat files? There will be a few things like this to iron
out,

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Peter
Huppertz
Sent: 01 July 2010 16:34
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Subject: Re: [Xerte] Xerte3: on Mac?

you got this one:

I tried to compile a stylesheet from the mac. It tries to start my
virtual machine, I guess the command points to the mxmlc.exe. The good
news is, that it also works on the mac:

/Xerte3Editor/bin/flex4sdk/bin/mxmlc -locale="" "/path/to/my/styles.css"
-output "/path/to/my/styles.swf"

???

On 01.07.2010, at 17:28, Julian Tenney wrote:

Blank message?

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Sent: 01 July 2010 15:32
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Subject: Re: [Xerte] Xerte3: on Mac?

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