I'm a VERY new user of OpenLaszlo, and a very enthusiastic one... but I've hit problems relating documentation to reality. I'm using Firefox 3.5 under Mac OS 10.6; I've tried installing by both Mac and Unix routes.
1. First item in the Deployer's Guide: "When you installed Laszlo, it placed an icon on your desktop: LPS Start Tomcat.term". It didn't. Tomcat started anyway, I think : I get "Welcome to OpenLaszlo 4.9.0" etc.. 2. There's conflicting advice around about how to set JAVA_HOME. I've ended up using a belt and braces, setting /usr/libexec/java_home (which is just a symlink) both via login script and by editing all three .command scripts. That stopped the complaints, but is it wise? 3. Developers' Guide 1.4 tells me "In order to be compiled by the OpenLaszlo Server, files must be placed in subdirectories of the following path: Macintosh HD:/Applications/Laszlo Presentation Server 4.9.0/jakarta-tomcat-5.0.24/webapps/lps-4.9.0:". This filepath doesn't exist. After a lot of frustration (and no help from documentation) I realised that Macintosh HD:/Applications/OpenLaszlo Server 4.9.0/Server/lps-4.9.0/my-apps is already provided. Am I still on track? 4. I've now compiled an application and it seems to work, but where are the compiled js/html executables? I think issues 1-3 are either just misunderstandings or rough edges in the documentation, but to a newbie with little Unix experience they're discouraging ones. Thanks.... -- Eur Ing Dr Patrick Leevers Director of Courses Reader in Polymer Engineering ------------------------------------ Department of Mechanical Engineering Imperial College London South Kensington Campus London SW7 2AZ ------------------------------------ Tel: +44 (0)20 75 94 70 88 Fax: +44 (0)20 75 94 70 17 Email: [email protected] http://www.imperial.ac.uk/mepolymers
