Re: Accessing projects from a Web page

> Hi, Mark!
>
> It's not really clear below how you "linked to a project".
>
> Here's a test and an example of the HTML you use to access the Squeak
> Plugin, which is what Squeak Projects need to run in a browser:
>
> http://wwwisg.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/~bert/squeak/plugin/test/plugintest.html
>
> Hope that helps!
>
> Bob
>
> Mark McCarty wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is there a trick to accessing Squeak projects from a Web page?
>>
>> I built a Web page and linked to a project I put on my Web server which
>> is hosted by a third party ISP.
>>
>> Instead of opening the project when the link is clicked the Windows
>> download dialog box displays. I have to click the Open button to display
>> the project. It works but I'd rather have the project display without
>> the dialog box.
>>
>> Any ideas?

> Would some good soul please have a look a the plugintest.html page,  
> which on my platform starts with the following text in the plugin  
> window: Hello Plugin World!
>
> This window was opened by some code in the file plugintest.sts,  
> which was downloaded by your web browser. The browser started the  
> Squeak Virtual Machine (C:\Program Files\Opera\Program\Plugins
> \Squeak.exe) with a default object image (C:\Program Files\Opera
> \Program\Plugins\SqueakPlugin.image).
>
> Since you are reading this I guess all is okay then ...
>
> Click FIND in the Navigator bar below to load some example  
> projects. You can get a larger view by clicking "Escape Browser".
>
> --------my observations:
>
> 1) there is no Navigation bar (so no escape from the browser)
> 2) the heigth of the plugin is insufficient for reaching all items  
> of the world menu (i.e. the desktop menu)
>
> Since this is a test page, me too would like to see it work.
>
> BTW the Fullwindow mode link works here and let me access the  
> desktop menu from the world menu.

> Am 10.06.2006 um 05:49 schrieb Klaus D. Witzel:
>
>> Would some good soul please have a look a the plugintest.html page,  
>> which on my platform starts with the following text in the plugin  
>> window: Hello Plugin World!
>>
>> This window was opened by some code in the file plugintest.sts, which  
>> was downloaded by your web browser. The browser started the Squeak  
>> Virtual Machine (C:\Program Files\Opera\Program\Plugins\Squeak.exe)  
>> with a default object image (C:\Program Files\Opera
>> \Program\Plugins\SqueakPlugin.image).
>>
>> Since you are reading this I guess all is okay then ...
>>
>> Click FIND in the Navigator bar below to load some example projects.  
>> You can get a larger view by clicking "Escape Browser".
>>
>> --------my observations:
>>
>> 1) there is no Navigation bar (so no escape from the browser)
>> 2) the heigth of the plugin is insufficient for reaching all items of  
>> the world menu (i.e. the desktop menu)
>>
>> Since this is a test page, me too would like to see it work.
>>
>> BTW the Fullwindow mode link works here and let me access the desktop  
>> menu from the world menu.
>
>
> This test page assumes you actually use Squeakland's SqueakPlugin.image.  
> That image has the "golden" navigator flap enabled by default.

>> This test page assumes you actually use Squeakland's  
>> SqueakPlugin.image. That image has the "golden" navigator flap  
>> enabled by default.
>
> I believe that is indeed the case, it says 'Squeakland 3.8-05 of 1  
> September 2005'. I use it for the Petri net demo
> - http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~scg/Teaching/CP/PetriNets/
>
>> Using the Squeakland image, the world menu fits on the screen for me.
>
> Not that I did expect the following but, enlarging the Opera web  
> page to 150% did the job, the menu now fits :)

>
> Am 10.06.2006 um 11:29 schrieb Klaus D. Witzel:
>>> This test page assumes you actually use Squeakland's  
>>> SqueakPlugin.image. That image has the "golden" navigator flap enabled  
>>> by default.
>>
>> I believe that is indeed the case, it says 'Squeakland 3.8-05 of 1  
>> September 2005'. I use it for the Petri net demo
>> - http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~scg/Teaching/CP/PetriNets/
>>
>>> Using the Squeakland image, the world menu fits on the screen for me.
>>
>> Not that I did expect the following but, enlarging the Opera web page  
>> to 150% did the job, the menu now fits :)
>
> I suspect that you ran that image manually and saved it (accidentally)  
> with some non-default preferences.

> On Sat, 10 Jun 2006 12:45:37 +0200, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>>
>> Am 10.06.2006 um 11:29 schrieb Klaus D. Witzel:
>>>> This test page assumes you actually use Squeakland's
>>>> SqueakPlugin.image. That image has the "golden" navigator flap
>>>> enabled by default.
>>>
>>> I believe that is indeed the case, it says 'Squeakland 3.8-05 of 1
>>> September 2005'. I use it for the Petri net demo
>>> - http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~scg/Teaching/CP/PetriNets/
>>>
>>>> Using the Squeakland image, the world menu fits on the screen for me.
>>>
>>> Not that I did expect the following but, enlarging the Opera web
>>> page to 150% did the job, the menu now fits :)
>>
>> I suspect that you ran that image manually and saved it
>> (accidentally) with some non-default preferences.
>
> No (did not run the image manually) and yes (saved the image from the
> Opera browser after install+update code from server) and no
> (non-default preferences): downloading a fresh copy from
>  - http://squeakland.org/installers/SqueakPlugin.image.zip
> this one says 'Squeakland 3.8-05 latest update: #481 Current Change
> Set: Unnamed1' and also has no "golden" navigator flap (but "show
> shared flaps" are enabled on the world menu, as before).
>
> Perhaps a platform (Opera, WinXP) specific difference? Should there be
> any other files (besides SqueakPlugin.image) on startup?

> Klaus D. Witzel wrote:
>> On Sat, 10 Jun 2006 12:45:37 +0200, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>>> Am 10.06.2006 um 11:29 schrieb Klaus D. Witzel:
>>>>> This test page assumes you actually use Squeakland's
>>>>> SqueakPlugin.image. That image has the "golden" navigator flap
>>>>> enabled by default.
>>>>
>>>> I believe that is indeed the case, it says 'Squeakland 3.8-05 of 1
>>>> September 2005'. I use it for the Petri net demo
>>>> - http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~scg/Teaching/CP/PetriNets/
>>>>
>>>>> Using the Squeakland image, the world menu fits on the screen for me.
>>>>
>>>> Not that I did expect the following but, enlarging the Opera web
>>>> page to 150% did the job, the menu now fits :)
>>>
>>> I suspect that you ran that image manually and saved it
>>> (accidentally) with some non-default preferences.
>>
>> No (did not run the image manually) and yes (saved the image from the
>> Opera browser after install+update code from server) and no
>> (non-default preferences): downloading a fresh copy from
>>  - http://squeakland.org/installers/SqueakPlugin.image.zip
>> this one says 'Squeakland 3.8-05 latest update: #481 Current Change
>> Set: Unnamed1' and also has no "golden" navigator flap (but "show
>> shared flaps" are enabled on the world menu, as before).
>>
>> Perhaps a platform (Opera, WinXP) specific difference? Should there be
>> any other files (besides SqueakPlugin.image) on startup?
> On Fedora Core 5, Firefox (v1.5.0.3) the Petri project works fine, and
> the plugin test loads and shows the text dialog, but no navigator panel.
> Other than the navigator panel not appearing, everything else seems fine.
>
> Opera (Version 9.00 Beta 2): both the plugin test and the Petri image do
> not load. I get a blue rectangle, the hourglass and (in the Petri
> project) the squeakland "Loading" image. But that's it.. kinda stops
> after that. (I stopped using Opera V8 because V9 worked better. )