Re: running the Player

2005-08-16 Thread Robert Brenstein
Charles Hartman wrote: I'm getting *nothing* -- just a splash / starup screen with Preparing... and Checking license... This is a known problem of player and has been reported in Bugzilla. It gets stuck when launching for some people. AFAIK it has something to do with some gimmicks to run

Re: running the Player

2005-08-15 Thread Douglas Gilliland
, Ken Norris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OOPS sorry, forgot to change the RE header before Hi Douglas, Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 21:08:24 -0400 From: Douglas Gilliland [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: running the Player When I finish a stack on my Powerbook (running Tiger), I: 1. Control

Re: running the Player

2005-08-14 Thread Douglas Gilliland
Charles, When I click on the DC Player (on my PowerBook running Tiger) I get the revOnline Viewer which enables one to navigate to the stack. Instead of opening the player, I hide the player and have my students double-click on the stack to open it. Control-click on the stack and drag down to Open

Re: running the Player

2005-08-14 Thread Charles Hartman
That is not what happens when I click the DC Player on my PowerBook running Tiger. Maybe something is strange about my system, but I don't think so, and the Player app obviously works (is not corrupted.) So we seem to have *both* bad behavior (on my PB) and inconsistent behavior. As for

Re: running the Player

2005-08-14 Thread J. Landman Gay
Charles Hartman wrote: That is not what happens when I click the DC Player on my PowerBook running Tiger. Maybe something is strange about my system, but I don't think so, and the Player app obviously works (is not corrupted.) So we seem to have *both* bad behavior (on my PB) and

Re: running the Player

2005-08-14 Thread Ken Norris
Hi Richard, Charles, et al, Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2005 18:03:00 -0700 From: Richard Gaskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: running the Player Charles Hartman wrote: When I launch the (OSX) Dreamcard Player by double-clicking the app (not a stack), I'm getting *nothing* -- just a splash / starup

Re: running the Player

2005-08-14 Thread Dom
J. Landman Gay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Player appears to need some adjustments. Indeed ;-) Else, a simple text file with some explanations would be helpful! A searched in the help, with the word Player. Didn't found helpful hints! Not to confuse also with the video animations ;-) I don't

Re: running the Player

2005-08-14 Thread Richard Gaskin
Dom wrote: I told here that my Diary would not more respond to a delete card menu action. I am thinking that it resorts to an old ask answer problem ;-) In fact, on the menu action, I ask wether the usr is sure to delete the card. So, it relies on the answer substack in Revolution, which is NOT

Re: running the Player

2005-08-14 Thread Dom
Richard Gaskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For clarity, there is no MetaCard Player anymore. There is the Revolution Player, My error! It's a typo... Can't figure why I speaked of MetaCard instead of DreamCard (I was some times ago a MetaCard user I preferred over the former Rev 1.0 version)

Re: running the Player

2005-08-14 Thread Douglas Gilliland
When I finish a stack on my Powerbook (running Tiger), I: 1. Control-click on the stack and drag down to Open With 2. Navigate to the Dream Card Player. After that any time the stack is double-clicked it automatically launches the DC Player and plays the stack. No Player window or having to

Re: running the Player

2005-08-14 Thread Charles Hartman
Or you (the developer) can simply open Get Info on the stack file and change the Open With there, before distributing the stack. Either way, you produce a stack which can be double-clicked to run under the Player. The problem comes when you -- or rather your not-in-the-know user --

Re: running the Player

2005-08-14 Thread Ken Norris
OOPS sorry, forgot to change the RE header before Hi Douglas, Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 21:08:24 -0400 From: Douglas Gilliland [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: running the Player When I finish a stack on my Powerbook (running Tiger), I: 1. Control-click on the stack and drag down to Open With 2

Re: running the Player

2005-08-14 Thread musfiqur rahman
do i know u!!! On 8/15/05, Ken Norris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OOPS sorry, forgot to change the RE header before Hi Douglas, Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 21:08:24 -0400 From: Douglas Gilliland [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: running the Player When I finish a stack on my

Re: running the Player

2005-08-13 Thread Richard Gaskin
Charles Hartman wrote: Sorry, I know we've been over over this, but: When I launch the (OSX) Dreamcard Player by double-clicking the app (not a stack), I'm getting *nothing* -- just a splash / starup screen with Preparing... and Checking license... and a big right-facing arrow. The arrow

Re: running the Player

2005-08-13 Thread Charles Hartman
On Aug 13, 2005, at 9:03 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Charles Hartman wrote: When I launch the (OSX) Dreamcard Player by double-clicking the app (not a stack), I'm getting *nothing* -- just a splash / starup screen with Preparing... and Checking license... and a big right-facing arrow.

Re: running the Player

2005-08-13 Thread Dan Shafer
Yeah, as I've said here before, the Player just isn't well documented or understood. It *appears* to me that it is RunRev's intent that the Player should *never* be launched directly, but only indirectly by double-clicking on a stack. The problem, of course, is that you can't prevent users