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Profile: gizmo
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User Name: gizmo
Forum Rank: Advanced Member
Real Name: Nuno VIana
Location Darmstadt, Germany
Occupation: Software Engineer
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Joined: Wednesday, October 25, 2006
Last Visit: Monday, February 8, 2010 8:54:03 AM
Number of Posts: 54
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Topic: [Authentic Browser V10.2.1.0]: Vertical Scroll does not work with mouse click, only with mouse-wheel
Posted: Thursday, February 4, 2010 3:17:06 PM
Dear all,

Ever since my company migrated into MS Internet Explorer 8, the vertical scrool on my Authentic Browser plugin form no longer works by clicking the mouse on the scroll bar.

Nowadays, only the mouse-wheel works.

I had however no issue with MS Internet Explorer V7.

Has anyone experienced this strange behaviour?

Thanks,
Gizmo
Topic: Tomcat 6 and Authentic browser problem
Posted: Friday, October 10, 2008 10:13:29 AM
Hi,

That's really strange. The plugin is an ActiveX control loading in MS Internet Explorer...Tomcat should have no influence in this, as well as the Java version...

Have you tried to enter an URL address on your browser calling the (CAB) file directly?

You can also try to create a static html file (from the HTML generated by your JSP files), save it and put it on a Tomcat directory, together with you schema and XML file to be edited...

Then fire-up your browser and try to open the URL address which points to the file (on Tomcat).

Cheers,

Gizmo

PS: Make sure your port onto which Tomcat V6 listens has remained the same as well (as Tomcat 5.5)
Topic: [Pulld-Down menus in Authentic Browser]: Disabling automatic scrolling through options on mouseover+
Posted: Friday, September 26, 2008 2:14:43 PM
Hi,

Not really...this issue is still on my pending (and hopefull Altova's list)

I am currently addressing other matters....:)

See ya
Topic: [Authentic Component]: Integration with Java/Swing application
Posted: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 3:34:18 PM
Hi,

Does anyone know if it possible to integrate the Authentic ActiveX component within a Java/Swing application?

Thanks,

Gizmo
Topic: [Authentic Plugin]: Slowness...again...
Posted: Monday, September 8, 2008 1:49:47 PM
gizmo wrote:
Hi Vlad,

That's what I was thinking about, to allow users to use a pull-down menu to select the section number (which repeats itself), one at the time.

Thanks again. Let's see what happens.

Cheers,

Gizmo


Hi again Vlad,

I created a dynamic pull-down menu which gets populated with the position and name of the section. Result? WORKS like a charm!

However, I now get a different behaviour when trying to edit the XML document in Stylevision or the Authentic Browser Plugin.

When using the Browser plugin inside MS IE, the pull-down menu does not appear and I cannot figure out why...(maybe I should contact you through the technical support?)

Many thanks again for all your help,

Gizmo
Topic: [Authentic Plugin]: Slowness...again...
Posted: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 6:25:08 AM
Hi Vlad,

That's what I was thinking about, to allow users to use a pull-down menu to select the section number (which repeats itself), one at the time.

Thanks again. Let's see what happens.

Cheers,

Gizmo
Topic: How to improve performance
Posted: Sunday, August 24, 2008 5:27:05 PM
gizmo wrote:
vlad wrote:
Hi all,

just to let you know: with v2008r2 the overall editing performance in Authentic should be significantly improved for most situations. I'd suggest to try the newest release out and would be interested to know if this is also true for your particular application.


Hi Vlad,

That's the next thing that I am going to try...the new Authentic Plugin version...(as soon as I have time!).

I promise to post my results in here, so whatch this topic!


Hi again vlad,

I've only now realized that I left this post open...:)

Well after some 1-2 months of testing, I can surely say that the new plugin V10.2.1.0 is a lot faster and smoother than the previous one that I have used (V9.0.2.0).

Unfortunately, my users have came up with a way of making it slower again: by creating huge documents, which I was not expecting. So I am facing now two problems: the document (although small - around 200Kb) takes 2mins to load and any operation (writing of text, addition/removal of fields) takes once again 15-30 secs.

I'll try to come up with a solution to show only a fraction of the whole document at a given time (following a suggestion from you), in order to check if performance is better or not.

Cheers,

Gizmo
Topic: [Authentic Plugin]: Slowness...again...
Posted: Sunday, August 24, 2008 5:09:20 PM
Hi Vlad, many thanks for your reply.

Actually what I was looking for, was a way for users to edit XML documents as if they were using an ordinary document editor.

Previously, the plugin (V9.0.2.0) was slower with only about 20-30 pages. But after I did a lot of simplifications on the MMI and together with the new release (V10.2.1.0), editing became possible.

Now my users came up with an XML document (which is not really large - around 200kb, but gets printed in PDF - using my XSLT scripts to a 200 Page document) - So I believe when you tell me that the GUI printed a 170-page doc.

Hum...I was wondering, if I would use conditions to partially show each of the data blocks that is repeatedly being shown (I have 115 of these blocks) - depending on a pull-down menu for instance, to determine the block number to be shown, will the GUI run faster???

I hope that the bottleneck would not be the Schema validation, because if anyway, this is done on the entire document, I guess it would still be slow, every time I manipulate the GUI...or am I wrong??

Do you have any further suggestion(s) of how I could tackle this??

Thank you again for the attention you are putting in order to help me out with these issues.

Gizmo
Topic: [Authentic Plugin]: Slowness...again...
Posted: Friday, August 22, 2008 12:42:02 PM
Hi there,

V10.2.1.0 of the plugin improved the performance a lot.....for small XML documents....

Anyway, my 200kb XML document takes 1:54m to load into MS IE.

I have already had a look at the document and it is both well-formed and valid against its XSD schema definition (according to XMLSpy)...

Does anyone had similar problems/possible solutions?...

Thanks,

Gizmo
Topic: Disabling right-click menu functionality
Posted: Friday, August 22, 2008 12:37:19 PM
mcconnell55 wrote:
Plugin Information:
Version: 10,2,1,0
Browser: IE 6, sp2

Hi I am wondering if anyone might be able to help me. I'm trying to figure out how you might be able to disable the functionality when you right click in the editor. Specifically i am trying to remove the options so users can't "Remove" or "Clear" tags. Anyone had any success with this?


Hi,

I am currently facing the same "problem"...in the end users can remove any "optional" elements from the XML file being edited!

Heck! they can even remove the entire document up to the ROOT node!!!


There's got to be a way from limiting users' ability to remove every part of the document (incuding the full document!!!)

I'll try to contact technical support on this issue..

Cheers,

Gizmo

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