[X3D-Public] Has anyone gotten Contact working in Firefox/Chrome?

Wed Jun 29 19:08:48 PDT 2011

I think this will give you some ideas. It works in IE and
FF 
but we never tested other browsers. Good luck...

Cheers,
Lauren

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Dave A [mailto:dave at realmofconcepts.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2011 8:56 PM
>To: info at 3dnetproductions.com
>Cc: x3d-public at web3d.org
>Subject: Re: [X3D-Public] Has anyone gotten Contact
>working in Firefox/Chrome?
>
>The world loads fine stand-alone, but it's not meant
>to work
>stand-alone, it needs to interact with a web page. It
>works fine in IE,
>using getWorld, getNode, and setNodeEventIn work
>great. The strange
>'listener' looks something like this, and only works
>in IE:
>
><script for="Contact" event="OnEvent(e, v, t)">
>... script here ...
>
>Where internal script does something like this:
>
>     Browser.loadURL('OnEvent( params');
>
>I'm more used to setting up actual listeners and such,
>(Flux/Vivaty),
>but this didn't work with Contact.
>
>If you can find the time to send a code snippet of
>your html container
>and whatever glues it to the scene, that would be so
>lovely.
>
>Thanks
>
>Dave A.
>
>
>
>On 6/29/2011 5:42 PM, GLG wrote:
>> We have the officetowers.com world working with
>Contact in
>> IE, FF, Chrome and even Safari and Opera (although
>Opera
>> is not officially supported because it tends to be
>too
>> slow and we're having other issues with it). This is
>one
>> of the most complex worlds out there, with plenty of
>SAI
>> scripts interfacing with CGI, SQL, cookies, MU
>server
>> among others without trouble. I do not have much
>time to
>> look over your code atm but at least now you know it
>> should work. What happens when you run your world
>> stand-alone in Contact? If you have the same issues
>then
>> it is probably not the web browsers.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Lauren
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: x3d-public-bounces at web3d.org [mailto:x3d-
>public-
>>> bounces at web3d.org] On Behalf Of
>>> dave at realmofconcepts.com
>>> Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2011 6:26 PM
>>> To: x3d-public at web3d.org
>>> Subject: [X3D-Public] Has anyone gotten Contact
>>> working in Firefox/Chrome?
>>>
>>> Hi all.
>>>
>>> I'm having trouble getting anything like SAI or EAI
>or
>>> whatever working
>>> with Contact 7.2 and anything but IE.
>>>
>>> I can't set any value to any field on any node. I
>>> can't even getWorld on
>>> it. I can getVersion ok, and a few other API's, so
>I
>>> know it's not brain
>>> dead per-se. The scene loads ok via the SRC param
>to
>>> the 'embed', but I
>>> can't get anything into or out of the scene.
>>>
>>> And, how do you set up a 'listener'? I have this
>odd
>>> thing working in IE
>>> but it doesn't work the same way in FF or Chrome.
>Is
>>> it a DOM thing of
>>> some sort to set up?
>>>
>>> Any working examples would get you my eternal
>>> gratitude and beverage of
>>> your choice when next we meet.
>>>
>>> Dave A.
>>>
>>> PS: the code:
>>>
>>> <HTML>
>>> <HEAD>
>>> <TITLE>Not IE</TITLE>
>>> <script>
>>>
>>>         function SetSomething()
>>>         {
>>>                 var n =
>document.Contact.getWorld();
>>>                 alert (n); // always null
>>>                 alert
>(document.Contact.getVersion());
>>> // this is ok!
>>>                 document.Contact.setNodeEventIn
>>> ('MyText', 'string',
>>> 'test'); // fail
>>>         }
>>> </script>
>>> </HEAD>
>>> <body>
>>> <BODY>
>>>   <embed
>>> id = 'Contact' name='Contact'
>>>    width="96%%" height="96%%"
>>>    SRC="SimpleScene.x3dv"
>>>    DASHBOARD="TRUE"
>>>    PrimitiveQuality="HIGH"
>>>    antialias="TRUE"
>>>    MaxTextureSize="0"
>>>    LoadScreen="TRUE"
>>>    RightMouseMenu="FULL"
>>>   >
>>> <input type='button' onClick='SetSomething()'
>>> value='set'/>
>>> </center>
>>> </BODY>
>>> </HTML>
>>>
>>>
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