GE won't create the printable xml

[ken]

I updated this morning but the GE won't creat the xml file called html-view-of-GestureMap.xml.

It does create a file called custom4f0040stealth34.U.byt in the directory though.

[pwilkinson]

I updated to MyGesture Editor v1.3.8 and the map works ok on my WinXP with Internet Explorer 6. Did you see FingerWorks comments:

This should generate a simplified XML file called 'MyGestures/html-view-of-GestureMap.xml', launch your default web browser and display a pretty table. Only currently active gestures and hotkeys will be shown. The browser should let you print table selections or the entire gesture map. If browser does not launch, or your default browser does not support XSLT Stylesheets (need IE 5/6 or Netscape 7), or browser is not connected to the internet, try copying html-view-of-GestureMap.xml to an internet-connected computer with newish web browser.

[ken]

Yes, I saw the comments cuz that's how I knew the file name that it creates ;)

However, the file that it created *.byt was created during the upgrade not during the printing.

It seems that it is stalling at the file-creation command because the file is no where to be found on my system.

[pwilkinson]

Yes, I figured you probably saw it, but was just checking…

I did not realize that part of the problem occurred during the upgrade; I thought it occurred when you tried to generate the page by clicking on the View Printable Gesture Map in Web Browser icon. My mistake. ;)

I don't know what's up. What operating system & IE are you running?

[ken]

I had made the mistake of thinking that the print feature created that byt file because I hadn't looked at the create date on it. I hadn't realized that the upgrade had created the "MyGesture" directory in there till renamed it and then ran the print function again.

I am running XP-Pro with sp 1 applied to it; NS 7 and IE 6.0. Cuz I'm running some crazy network setup at work, I did a search for the file name to see if it was showing up some where else but it wasn't.

I'm not sure that there was a problem in the upgrade but it did say there were "some errors" in the install but didn't clarify, so I reinstalled but got the same message.

[Bone]

Originally posted by ken
I had made the mistake of thinking that the print feature created that byt file because I hadn't looked at the create date on it. I hadn't realized that the upgrade had created the "MyGesture" directory in there till renamed it and then ran the print function again.

I am running XP-Pro with sp 1 applied to it; NS 7 and IE 6.0. Cuz I'm running some crazy network setup at work, I did a search for the file name to see if it was showing up some where else but it wasn't.

I'm not sure that there was a problem in the upgrade but it did say there were "some errors" in the install but didn't clarify, so I reinstalled but got the same message.

When I installed with Xwinder running I got that "Some errors" message. I've since installed cleanly and still can't print the gestures.

[ken]

Has anyone at FW been able to figure this one out?

TY

[ken]

I was able to reinstall without errors but it still will not create the xml file.

[t3ffreak]

Same problem. The html-view-of-GestureMap.xml file is not being created in ~/Documents/MyGestures/ and I can't find it anywhere else either.

I've tried the icon and the menu-item.

I'm running OS X.3.2.

[Tigger]

I can get it to create the XML file, but it doesn't display at all in the browser. I've tried both Mozilla and IE. Both browsers just show a blank page even though they're trying to show the correct file which does exist. In case it matters, this is on Win 2K Pro.

[fingerworks]

OK, guy's, here's the skinny on the printable gesture map.

1. First of all if 'html-view-of-GestureMap.xml' wasn't put in your MyGestures directory, it could have been put in a temp directory somewhere (or maybe creation just failed), so do a drive search for it and let us know what turns up.

2. For those who found the file but it didn't display in their browser, IE6 on Windows is the only browser properly displaying it at the moment. Netscape 6/Mozilla would work except they have a security restriction blocking read of the XSLT stylesheet off the FingerWorks server (since the XML document is local to your computer). Opera and Safari and various other browsers don't parse XSLT at all. IE5 requires that the stylesheet conform to an older draft version of the XSLT spec.

To get around the Mozilla security restrictions we'll have to bundle the XSLT stylesheet and about 100Kbyte of redundant icons into the MultiTouch Utilities download for expansion into ~/Documents/MyGestures/xsl/
Didn't really want to do that but does anybody have a better suggestion?

[Tigger]

100 KB is nothing these days. I wouldn't have a problem with you including the style sheet and exrtra icons in the install image.

Danny

[ken]

html-view-of-GestureMap.xml
does not print anywhere on my drive.