oh it works fine in Active Desktop, IE's rendering engine is pretty tightly wound in all sorts of strange places in windows.
> > Hello! > > Re. closing the console window in the plugin. This does currently cause > REBOL to die. We know about this bug and are looking into it. > > As far as Active Desktop goes, we haven't looked into this yet. We're > currently only supporting IE as a browser. > > Thanks! > > Josh Mitts > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:rebol- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 2:03 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [REBOL] rebol/viewDLL problems > > One thing I noticed yesterday when playing > around, if I started a html file that > referred to a .r file that had an error via > the plugin a shell with the name > Rebol/ViewDll came up - sure others have > seen this already by now - I closed the > shell, from then on in until I had closed > every instance of my browser the plugin did > not work. I checked my processes to see if > this shell was running somewhere in the > background but I couldn't see any reference > to it. As soon as I fixed the problem, > closed all my browsers (suppose this doesn't > matter if one is running a Windows Shell > where each instance of IE is running on its > own thread, but most people ain't) and > restarted the html file, the plugin worked > on all example pages I had of it. > > okay that was interesting, hope that gets > fixed. > > So then one of the things I thought this > might be interesting for is to have Rebol > integrated pages as ActiveDesktop items. I > created a quick activeDesktop html page, I > went ahead and put in my object tag and set > the LaunchURL param to refer to a file via > an absolute path (windows path) this didn't > work, neither did referring to it via a > file:// url, or a rebol path. Has anyone got > this to work with a file path? > This by the way seems to confirm that a > failed plugin page won't cause other proper > plugin pages to stop working if run on a > different thread, as checking various web > browser plugins worked fine. I did get the > activeDesktop plugin working fine, but only > by moving the referenced .r file to the same > folder as my activeDesktop item. > > I suppose the best thing to actually have > running as an activeDesktop would be a > modified view Desktop. > > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list, just send an email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the subject. > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list, just send an email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the subject. > > -- To unsubscribe from this list, just send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the subject.
