Jan, I just woke up and saw this email, I already won my day! Thanks for the tip, this is going to save me!
Cheers andre On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 4:34 AM, Jan Schenkel <[email protected]> wrote: > The eaésiest workaround is to first open a blank page; so on opening the > revBrowser instance, I set the initial URL to "about:blank" and that seems > to do the trick. > Maybe this should be the default URL for new revBrowser instances - either > that or they should make it very clear in the docs that a valid URL is > required :-) > > HTH, > > Jan Schenkel > ===== > Quartam Reports & PDF Library for Revolution > <http://www.quartam.com> > > ===== > "As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time." > (La Rochefoucauld) > > > --- On Mon, 1/18/10, Andre Garzia <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > If you create a revbrowser object on > > windows xp and didn't set it to go to > > any url (pass empty in revbrowseropen) and then tries to > > set the content by > > setting the htmltext property of the revbrowserinstance, it > > will fail to set > > and will not render. > > > > If you set the url property to some url and then after > > rendering, you set > > the htmltext property, it will work. > > > > It appears that revbrowser will not instantiate on windows > > if it is not told > > to load a url. > > > > bz#8549 > > > > http://quality..runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=8549 > > > > This is a blocker to anyone trying to use RevBrowser to > > render custom media > > players or displays. For example, I use it to play youtube > > videos but not > > youtube home page, I assemble a htmltext using merge and > > set it, this is > > elegant for the temporary page never touches the disk but > > it is not working > > on windows, on the mac it works great. I also use it to > > play audio and video > > files using JW FLV player which works quite well on macs > > but on windows is > > failing. > > > > If I set the revbrowser to some other url and then try to > > set it to my > > htmltext, then it works ok.. I believe the activeX or > > whichever thing is used > > to load the browser component on windows fails to > > initialize if not pointed > > to an url. > > > > Cheers and votes welcome. > > > > Andre > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > -- http://www.andregarzia.com All We Do Is Code. _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
