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

[Kemp Johnathan]

Sorry for not responding quicker - I've been away from my PC for a couple of
days.

I don't think I had differentiated between preview and browser preview.

If you can display a dialogue box asking if the use wants to rebuild the
project before the preview (or browser preview) takes place then perhaps a
message

"Changes made since the last project rebuild will not be available in the
preview unless you rebuild the project. Rebuild Project Now ? (Yes / No) "

Would give the user flexibility and make the reason for the choice explicit
to all levels of user.

Kind regards

Johnathan


On 12 January 2011 14:39, Julian Tenney <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk>wrote:

> 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
> *To:* Xerte discussion list
> *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,
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> *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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