[Xerte] Re: Browsers behaving badly

Tom Reijnders reijnders at tor.nl
Fri Jan 25 16:56:53 GMT 2013


Yes, and yes, all browsers we know of.

You have to close the preview windows.

It reacts to mouse events, you can see that the butten goes into focus 
and out of focus, and the tooltip pops up. Just no file browse dialog.

Tom

Op 25-1-2013 10:08, Julian Tenney schreef:
>
> I can't replicate it: is it as simple as
>
> - open a piece for editing;
>
> - add a graphics sound page;
>
> - browse for an image;
>
> - preview
>
> - browse again - and this time it doesn't work?
>
> - Is it all browsers?
>
> - Does the button apparently still respond to the mouse (do you see 
> the over / down states?) and you just don't get the file browse dialog?
>
> *From:*xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk 
> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of *Tom Reijnders
> *Sent:* 24 January 2013 19:38
> *To:* Xerte discussion list
> *Subject:* [Xerte] Re: Browsers behaving badly
>
> We have seen the following similar issue and can reproduce it for 3 
> installs. (just like Brane Smitek reported)
>
> It works UNTIL you preview. As long as you keep the previewer open, 
> the button remains functional. As soon as you close the preview 
> however, you need to close the editor/wizard to reactivate the browse 
> button again.
>
> It happens for the flash preview and for the html5 preview.
>
> Haven't had the time to look into it yet. I've seen this long before 
> 1.91, so it is not introduced last month, buut more in 
> october/november timeframe.
>
> Regards,
>
> Tom
>
> Op 24-1-2013 17:14, Paul Swanson schreef:
>
>     Alt+Tab (on Windows) will let you flip through open windows and
>     see if it opened a dialog. Could it be a rights issue on the
>     folder? Is it protected by a .htaccess file?
>
>     *Paul Swanson*
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>     *From:*xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>     <mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>
>     [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of
>     *Julian Tenney
>     *Sent:* Thursday, January 24, 2013 8:01 AM
>     *To:* Xerte discussion list
>     *Subject:* [Xerte] Re: Browsers behaving badly
>
>     > appeared on top but since 1.8/1.9 or somewhere between the two it sometimes appears below
>     the editor window and is easily missed
>
>     I don't think that's a toolkits problem, more a browser / OS thing.
>
>     *From:*xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>     <mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>
>     [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of *Ron
>     Mitchell
>     *Sent:* 24 January 2013 16:03
>     *To:* 'Xerte discussion list'
>     *Subject:* [Xerte] Re: Browsers behaving badly
>
>     If you're using the vle/xot install Alistair that works in both
>     Chrome and IE for me.
>
>     I do think that something changed in 1.9 in terms of where the
>     pop-up browse window appears and I mentioned this on the dev list
>     previously but can't track it down reliably. I'm sure in 1.7 and
>     previous versions that browse window always appeared on top but
>     since 1.8/1.9 or somewhere between the two it sometimes appears
>     below the editor window and is easily missed. Not sure if that's
>     the issue for you but worth a mention.
>
>     Ron
>
>     *From:*xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>     <mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>
>     [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of
>     *Julian Tenney
>     *Sent:* 24 January 2013 15:29
>     *To:* Xerte discussion list
>     *Subject:* [Xerte] Re: Browsers behaving badly
>
>     Can you apparently click it, and then nothing happens, or is the
>     button itself not responding to the mouse (do you see the mouse
>     over / mouse down states of the button?)
>
>     It works here fine on my xampp install of 1.9. Which install are
>     you using?
>
>     *From:*Tenney Julian
>     *Sent:* 24 January 2013 15:23
>     *To:* 'Xerte discussion list'
>     *Subject:* RE: Browsers behaving badly
>
>     Has it ever worked?
>
>     *From:*xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>     <mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>
>     [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of
>     *Alistair McNaught
>     *Sent:* 24 January 2013 15:13
>     *To:* xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>     <mailto:xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>
>     *Subject:* [Xerte] Browsers behaving badly
>
>     Any obvious reasons for the following?
>
>     I'm using toolkits version 1.9 I started with Google chrome but
>     when I try to add an image onto a Media> Graphics and sound page
>     the Import media button remained obstinately unresponsive. I
>     searched through to check that it wasn't loading a dialogue box in
>     the background that there was nothing anywhere on screen or behind
>     screen that I could find.
>
>     I published the changes are made so far, close the browser
>     reloaded and try to add the image again and had exactly the same
>     problem; completely unresponsive image button. I then moved to
>     Internet Explorer. The import media button did what it was
>     supposed to but I had a message about the script making the
>     browser unresponsive. Everything ground to a halt.
>
>     It actually very simple stuff I'm trying to do in preparation for
>     the Xerte Friday session tomorrow. Any hints or tips as to what
>     might be going wrong?
>
>     Alistair
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