[Xerte] [Xerte 3] Is Xerte 3 browser sensitive?

[Julian Tenney]

Do you think browser preview should build the project, then fire up the browser, or simply fire up the browser...? Or present options for the user, i.e. Browser Preview -> Rebuild Project (Yes / No) - might be better as not rebuilding is faster if it's not needed.

Just thinking most of the time the project will have been built anyway, as you work on it, and the browser stuff comes after the other stuff is done. Most of the time I would edit, build, preview, edit, build more, preview again, happy, browser check... no real need to rebuild for the browser preview.

Options probably best.

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 11 January 2011 21:22
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Subject: RE: [Xerte] [Xerte 3] Is Xerte 3 browser sensitive?

Glad you got it working. Getting short filenames for fcsh is harder problem than you might imagine as there is no getShortFileName() in Air. So I wrote a function to have a 'good guess' at the short filename on windows: you are welcome to help improve it!

If you don't use fcsh, re-compiles take as long as the first one: too long for me. fcsh speeds up incremental compiles hugely, couple of seconds at most, even on relateively large pieces. Xerte 3 is trying to use fcsh. It could fail over to mxmlc directly if some tests failed? There's more work to do on this I think. You can check out the Compiler class in the source.

I'll fix the browser preview thing, thanks,

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From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Kemp Johnathan [johnathan.kemp at ntlworld.com]
Sent: 11 January 2011 18:53
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: [Xerte] [Xerte 3] Is Xerte 3 browser sensitive?
Having got Xerte 3 running in Windows 7 by changing the directory it is installed into (see my recent post on this topic) I now find that I can run Xerte, create a project and build that project.

This results in an html file that when double clicked displays the projects associated swf file - so you see the project.

However selecting in Xerte 3 Project / Browser Preview does not result in anything other than the project being built, no browser opens and the project swf is not displayed. Similarly if the preview button in the controls panel is clicked on no project is displayed.

I am using Opera as my browser of choice and .html files are associated with this browser.

Any ideas anyone?

Kind regards

Johnathan
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