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Still problems with xforms in deer park alpha1

Matthias Mosimann

2005-06-09, 4:42 am

Hy Allan

Sorry for the delay. I installed everything again with the links from your
blog you sent to me yesterday. The installation under fedora core 2 was
sucessful (I had to download the xpi first and then open it with firefox,
don't know why firefox doesn't open the extension-install-dialog directly).
But ... there is always the same problem: I can't see any xforms. I checked
if the extension is there .. and the extension is there.

Ehm ... what happens exactly when I install an extension? Should this
extension be in the "extensions" folder as an *.xpi?

Today in the morning I decided to test again the installation on another
windows pc with xp prof. as OS (as yesterday) with your links in your blog.
But then I runned into the same problem as I had always on linux. (And the
extension-install-dialog also didn't open, I had to do the same procedure
scribed above.) The installation is correct and the extension is installed
but I can't see any xforms. Have you changed something on the links in your
blogs? (I'm sure you didn't). Very strange thing.

I don't understand this ... it couldn't be so difficult to download to peace
of software and run it correctly :-).

regards
Matthias

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Allan Beaufour

2005-06-10, 7:40 am

Torsdag 09 juni 2005 09:34 skrev Matthias Mosimann:
> But ... there is always the same problem: I can't see any xforms. I checked
> if the extension is there .. and the extension is there.

Hmm, could you post the exact links for both the Firefox tarball and the
xforms.xpi that you use?

> Have you changed something on the links in your blogs?

Nope.

> I don't understand this ... it couldn't be so difficult to download to
> peace of software and run it correctly :-).

No it shouldn't, and I'm pretty sad to hear you have so many problems.

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Allan Beaufour
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Matthias Mosimann

2005-06-11, 4:19 am

Sorry for the Delay Allan and ... by the way I had to say again many
thanks for your friendly help.

Allan Beaufour schrieb:

>Torsdag 09 juni 2005 09:34 skrev Matthias Mosimann:
>
>
>
>Hmm, could you post the exact links for both the Firefox tarball and the
>xforms.xpi that you use?
>
>
Yes of course. So that was my way ... I went to your site:
http://www.beaufour.dk/blog/ scrolled a little bit down to entry Deer
Park Alpha 1. Then I clicked to the "Firefox page" link
(http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/) which tooks me to the
firefox deer park alpha 1 download page. Then I decided to download the
linux version and clicked on the download link Deer Park Alpha 1 for
Linux (English)
<http://download.mozilla.org/?produc...inux&lang=en-US>
(http://download.mozilla.org/?produc...inux&lang=en-US).
Then I installed in into my /opt directory (with a normal user) and
after the successful installation I started up deer park alpha and went
again to your blog: http://www.beaufour.dk/blog/ scrolled again a little
bit down to the entry Deer Park Alpha 1 and clicked on the extension
link Linux
(http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla..../xpi/xforms.xpi).
Now the problems began. First of all Deer Park Alpha didn't open the
normal extension install window. I had to download the extension to my
harddrive first and afterwoods I opened it with deer park alpha one
while I clicked in menue File - > File open -> choose the extension. The
the install window appeared and everything went correctly. I installed
the extension and "rebooted" the Deer Park. Then I surfed to the tax and
calc form on the mozilla xforms page but I can't see the xforms. Maybe I
took the wrong links?! Could there be a problem with previous
installation of firefox/xforms.xpi and "tryingouts" of xforms? Maybe
there could be problem with the profile of firefox ... they share the
profile (firefox stable/deer park alpha)?

>
>
>
>Nope.
>
>
>
>
>No it shouldn't, and I'm pretty sad to hear you have so many problems.
>
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I'm guessing now ... but I think that's not a problem of the software. I
think there is a problem between me an the computer/software ;-).

regards
Matthias

Allan Beaufour

2005-06-13, 4:27 am

Saturday 11 June 2005 09:28 skrev Matthias Mosimann:
> Allan Beaufour schrieb:
>
> Yes of course. So that was my way
> [...]
> Maybe I took the wrong links?!

Looks fine to me.

> Could there be a problem with previous installation of firefox/xforms.xpi
> and "tryingouts" of xforms? Maybe
> there could be problem with the profile of firefox ... they share the
> profile (firefox stable/deer park alpha)?

Could be. Try creating a clean profile and install only the xforms.xpi?

--
Allan Beaufour
Novell Denmark

Novell® BrainShare® Barcelona 2005
11-15 September
The CCIB, Barcelona, Spain
www.novell.com/brainshare/europe

Matthias Mosimann

2005-06-13, 7:31 pm

> Looks fine to me.
>
> firefox/xforms.xpi
>
> Could be. Try creating a clean profile and install only the xforms.xpi?

No, that wasn't the problem ... I can't see any xforms either. Could I send
you any logs or any helpful files?

regards
Matthias

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Allan Beaufour

2005-07-04, 7:51 am

Monday 13 June 2005 14:29 skrev Matthias Mosimann:
>
> No, that wasn't the problem ... I can't see any xforms either. Could I send
> you any logs or any helpful files?

I've been on vacation... do you still have problems? Eventually try a fresh
nightly build of firefox + a fresh nightly build of the xpi on a clean
profile.

--
Allan Beaufour
Novell Denmark

Novell® BrainShare® Barcelona 2005
11-15 September
The CCIB, Barcelona, Spain
www.novell.com/brainshare/europe

Matthias Mosimann

2005-07-06, 11:32 pm

Hi Allan

I tried it again!
Now I had absolutly no problem to download firefox, install the
extension (both downloaded from the xforms-mozilla-dev-page), deleted
the profile and run the xforms. Great! ... all my problems disapeared
(ok I haven't tested it yet on windows ... but I runned the complete
installation twice on my fc2 box). Did you change anything? ... on the
installation? ... when I have again problems I will post a message to
the dev list here.

Many thanks for your help and your perservering willingness. (I hope
we're now able to create our application bassed upon xforms and have now
a good testing platform).

regards
Matthias

Matthias Mosimann schrieb:

> Allan Beaufour schrieb:
>
> Long time no hear ... no problem. Enjoy your holiday that's important.
> Ehm ... I'm sorry but I've given up testing for a whil.e I will give
> it a try in 2-3 days again and will let know you what's up.
>
> regards
> Matthias
>