[Xerte] Xerte3: on Mac?
Peter Huppertz
peter.huppertz at baselgovernance.org
Wed Jul 7 15:16:35 BST 2010
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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