> Can you tell me more about the flash plugin installer? Would I need a > Windows browser? Someone said trying windows firefox under wine didn't > work, but no specifics about what worked and what didn't (i.e. did > firefox not run, or was it just the flash 8 plugin didn't run, or does > the plugin run but just settings couldn't be changed)?
yes, you need a windows browser. just run the firefox installer with wine, then install the player normally (i.e. go to the adobe site and install from the browser). worked fine for me -- with the exception that it can't save settings, either... mark On 2/3/06, Darren Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > what is your wine set to simulate? because win98, win2k, and winxp all store > > their user settings in different places i believe. > > Thanks for the ideas. I tried all three but no difference. > > I've experimented with various WINEDEBUG settings, E.g: > > WINEDEBUG=+file,+reg wine "~/.wine/drive_c/Program > Files/Macromedia/Flash 8/Players/SAFlashPlayer.exe" test1.swf 2>debug.log > > As far as I can see the local storage settings are not read/write from > the registry, or the filesystem! Spooky, but it matches what I observed > poking around on the windows machine as well. > > BTW, it was trying to read from: > ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system/Macromed/Flash > > so I created that directory, and copied in all the files from the > windows machine. I also created a blank sub-directory called > FlashPlayerTrust which is something else it looked for. > > None of that made any difference. > > Grrr... this is very frustrating. Currently the only linux standalone > player is version 6; if I could just get this working fully then we'd > have a flash 8 player. Everything else seems to work, it is just > changing the settings. > > > another thought: maybe you should try running the installer for the flash > > plugin (even though you are using the standalone player) -- perhaps it will > > set up all the needed registry entries and/or directory structures? > > Can you tell me more about the flash plugin installer? Would I need a > Windows browser? Someone said trying windows firefox under wine didn't > work, but no specifics about what worked and what didn't (i.e. did > firefox not run, or was it just the flash 8 plugin didn't run, or does > the plugin run but just settings couldn't be changed)? > > Darren > > _______________________________________________ > osflash mailing list > [email protected] > http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org > -- http://snafoo.org/ jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ osflash mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
