[Xerte] Xerte3: on Mac?

Julian Tenney Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk
Wed Jul 7 15:32:11 BST 2010 

OK, lets try and get all the rest of it working, then we can tackle the
issues. Help(?)fully the zinc runtime has BrowseFile for PCs and
BrowseFileToSave for macs. So much for cross platform...

I'll sort that out and we can go from there,

-----Original Message-----
From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Peter
Huppertz
Sent: 07 July 2010 15:17
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: Re: [Xerte] Xerte3: on Mac?

Yes, I built it and tested it. But as I said, I stuck at the preview.
The rest seems to work out of the box.


On 07.07.2010, at 15:16, Julian Tenney wrote:

> Can you build it? Then once you've tested it you can send me updated
> code...
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Peter
> Huppertz
> Sent: 07 July 2010 14:15
> To: Xerte discussion list
> Subject: Re: [Xerte] Xerte3: on Mac?
> 
> Hopefully ... 
> 
> New project:
> 
> MainMenu.as
> 
> replace
> fileName = mdm.Dialogs.BrowseFile.show();
> with
> fileName = mdm.Dialogs.BrowseFileToSave.show();
> 
> forget about the three lines above.
> 
> Also I added a settings.as containing
> 
> 
> package org.xerteEditor 
> {
> 	
> 	import flash.system.Capabilities;
> 	
> 	public class Settings
> 	{	
> 		static public function get delimiter():String
> 		{
> 			var delimiter:String;
> 			var os:String = Capabilities.os;
> 			if (os.split(" ")[0] == "Windows") {
> 				delimiter = '\\';
> 			} else {
> 				delimiter = '/';
> 			}
> 			return delimiter;
> 		}
> 		
> 	}
> 
> }
> 
> In every file using paths replace the \\ with 
> 
> ' + Settings.delimiter + '
> 
> 
> 
> On 07.07.2010, at 15:00, Julian Tenney wrote:
> 
>> I think we have a chance down the zinc / mac road if we work through
> it
>> methodically and identify the issues and fix them.
>> 
>> I got stuck at the first hurdle, as I could not figure out how a mac
> new
>> file dialog allows you to create a new file, and so far, no one has
> told
>> me...
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Peter
>> Huppertz
>> Sent: 07 July 2010 13:58
>> To: Xerte discussion list
>> Subject: Re: [Xerte] Xerte3: on Mac?
>> 
>> I also tried again to get it work with the Mac version of Zinc.
> Replaced
>> the \\ with a separator var based on the OS, the user works on. But
>> every time I try to load the preview (Xerte.swf) it stops and
crashes.
>> Apparently there is no log file?! 
>> Tried to replace Xerte.swf with a simple rectangular I drew in Flash,
>> nothing is displayed at all in the preview pane. Such a waste of
time.
> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 06.07.2010, at 17:42, Julian Tenney wrote:
>> 
>>> OK. Good to know. With more time we can probably work it out at some
>>> point,
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>>> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Peter
>>> Huppertz
>>> Sent: 06 July 2010 15:17
>>> To: Xerte discussion list
>>> Subject: Re: [Xerte] Xerte3: on Mac?
>>> 
>>> I spent the last two days to get an air version of Xerte3 running
>>> without success. I encountered the same problems you describe,
having
>>> Sandbox security violations. Tried several tips/tricks that are
>>> mentioned in the www, without success. So I give up on this :-(
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 05.07.2010, at 14:23, Julian Tenney wrote:
>>> 
>>>> It is a bit cumbersome, and it is the security thing that I cannot
>>>> resolve. I've also tried it with network services = false, but
there
>>>> seems to be a problem with getting one movie (the editor) to load
>>>> another local swf (the preview). If I could get it to do both
>> reliably
>>>> it would speed up the debugging process quite a bit as you wouldn't
>>> need
>>>> to build the zinc app, and then try what you need to do.
>>>> 
>>>> Something changed though: this used to be possible, so I have no
> idea
>>>> whether it's a zinc thing, a flash player thing, a security thing
or
>>>> just me. I did write most of the app whilst it still worked
> though...
>>>> 
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>>>> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Peter
>>>> Huppertz
>>>> Sent: 05 July 2010 13:09
>>>> To: Xerte discussion list
>>>> Subject: Re: [Xerte] Xerte3: on Mac?
>>>> 
>>>> I tried around with Zinc on my Mac, more or less just replacing
>>>> backslashes with slashes. I think Xerte is now trying to create the
>>>> preview, but the Application just quits on Mac. All in all it is
>> quite
>>>> cumbersome to work with Zinc, because you always have to compile a
>> new
>>>> XerteEditor and than create a new Application with Zinc. This leads
>> me
>>>> to try the Air Path again. I'm able to open my x3o file in my Air
>>>> application now and the tree is visible in the tree view. But the
>>>> preview throws a security error. I'm not totally sure, but it could
>>> be,
>>>> that a security settings of the xerte.swf causes the problem. Can
> you
>>>> compile xerte with the compiler setting "Use network services" set
> to
>>>> false for me? (I'm not able to compile Xerte here ...)
>>>> 
>>>> Peter
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On 02.07.2010, at 15:15, Dave Burnett wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>> How am I supposed to name the new file on the mac?
>>>>> 
>>>>> With latte in hand, you just visualize it.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
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