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 in secure mode.
Robert
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
from launching it.
I think it should either:
(1) Display message that says, in essence, "This is a Player. You
got to give it something to play with. Pick a stack file,
double-click it and then see how great it is"
Or
(2) Present with a file selection dialog (filtered for stacks if possible).
But that's just me.
On Aug 13, 2005, at 7:46 PM, Charles Hartman wrote:
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. The arrow isn't clickable; nothing is;
and the menu offers nothing useful except Quit.
Clearly *not* what I want to instruct my Dreamcard-stack users to
do. But if the app is there (if they've downloaded both my stack
and the Player), some will do it anyway.
Agreed, it doesn't provide much guidance.
As far as I can see (??), less than that: it doesn't look as though
it permits any action but quitting. (Not a useful application model
. . .) I'm sure I'm missing something. But -- appearances sometimes
to the contrary, I'm not a really naive computer user -- and if I
can't find it, I *know* many of the people using my stack won't be
able to either.
What do you feel would make for a better user experience?
For example, should it present a file selection dialog, or have
some sort of Home stack, or....?
The former seems like the best idea; users are accustomed to those
dialogs in all kinds of apps. The latter could be good. But there
would have to be a really direct way for me, as developer, to make
my stack available either as or from that "home stack".
Charles
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