GDL Web Control and MacOS X

[Frank Beister]

I have been looking around by using the search function of this board, but haven't found any thread, which fits to the following point. So if this has been discussed, I would be glad to get a link to it. Otherwise here's the question:

Has anyone got run the 'GDL web control' on MacOS X?

In the last years I tried from time to time to install it, but gave up every time after a lot of tries. I have installed all common browsers, but none works as right as on Windows. Only the ie brings up a preview of an gdl, but hangs just before completing the download.

So if anyone has got it:
- Which browser?
- Which plugIn?
- How?
- How to install it on Netscape/Mozilla/Firefox?
- Knows anyone a web-link with an embetted object, which should definitively work?

[Anonymous]

Hello Frank,

'GDL web control' works fine on my Macs with
following setup:

-Internet Explorer 5.2.3 (5815.1)
-MacOSX 10.3.6
-GDLWebControl 2.01INT

I think that IE is the only MAC browser that the web control
supports. In addition the plugin doesn't support javascript
on MAC- so if there are buttons etc. on the object web page
they are not working. BUT all the functions and windows of
the object itself work fine.

I have downloaded and installed the plugin at;

<http://www.graphisoft.com/ftp/gdl/webcontrol/plgn/GDLWebControl2.01INT.hqx>

If You can't get the plugin working, can I send You html code
to try a web page locally on Your own machine with Your
own objects.

Hope this helps.

--
Juha

[Frank Beister]

Hi Juha!

WOW! There's one, who got it! Light at the end of the tunnel.

My configuration:

-Internet Explorer 5.2.3 (5815.1)
-MacOSX 10.3.7
-GDLWebControl 2.01GER

To use the german instead of the international version shouldn't be the problem, but I will try your link.

How have you installed the webcontrol? If I start the Vise-Installer I have no options to set destination browser, path or volume. After installation the plugin does not work neither in ie nor in moz&co.

The following link does not show its objects for me: http://www.a-null.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=3;t=003045;p=1#000012. Can you see them?

If You can't get the plugin working, can I send You html code
to try a web page locally on Your own machine with Your
own objects.

If you have no link, which should definitively work, I would appreciate your file(s).

What's about your Quicktime settings? I can not disable the bond of GSM to quicktime. But don't ask why, the browser do not want to play GSMs as soundfile any more. A bit suspicious.

[Frank Beister]

OK. I gave it a new try, and found something more.

In ie I can 'kill' the GSM-Quicktime connection in the MIME settings dialog of ie. The example page on http://www.gdlcentral.com/ shows the objects now correctly. But why not on http://www.a-null.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=3;t=003045;p=1#000012? Maybe it's java scripted. I can not look into the bbs software.

In the newsletter http://www.gdlcentral.com/files/newsletter/news062703.html I can learn, that the plugin should work with netscape 7 too, but I can not get it installed. Have you tried it? They wouldn't write it if they wouldn't have tried, isn't it?