In message <5189330575t...@netsurf-browser.org> Michael Drake <t...@netsurf-browser.org> wrote:
> > In article <f22b438751.thebe...@sarno.freeserve.co.uk>, > Geoffrey Baxendale <thebe...@sarno.freeserve.co.uk> wrote: > > In message <51873486fct...@netsurf-browser.org> > > Michael Drake <t...@netsurf-browser.org> wrote: > > > > In article <92e7328751.thebe...@sarno.freeserve.co.uk>, > > > Geoffrey Baxendale <thebe...@sarno.freeserve.co.uk> wrote: > > > > > I have just downloaded r11090 and the good news is that the text has > > > > re-appeared in the hot list. The bad news is the black blobs are > > > > still there instead of the icons. > > > > Please try this: > > > > > > 1. Quit NetSurf. > > > 2. SHIFT Double click the !NetSurf application directory to open it > > > without running NetSurf. > > > 3. Double click OpenChoices. > > > 4. Open the Choices file in a text editor. > > > 5. Delete the line that starts "tree_icons_dir:". > > > 6. Save the Choices file. > > > > > > and let us know if that helps. > > > No. Just the same, > > Stange. You would get black squares instead of icons if NetSurf fails to > load the treeview icons. They are stored in !NetSurf.Resources.Icons and > they are called content/png and directory/png. > Ahah: mine were called content_png etc. Renaming them and setting the file type to png has solved the problem. I wonder why mime map didn't pickup the file type from the /png > So it wouldn't find them if they aren't there, or if it's looking in the > wrong place due to an incorrect path being saved in the Choices file. > > If the latter is ruled out, it must be the former. Are the files there? > > Actually, I seem to recall there is some RISC OS archive extraction > software that doesn't handle long filenames. What software do you use to > extract NetSurf from the zip files we supply? > I think you may have hit the nail on the head Michael. I use !Sparkplug 2.28 and I have had trouble with it mangling file names before. Had to re-name a whole directory of htm files once to get the help pages to work for one application. Any suggestions for a better prog any one? Thanks to every one for contributions on this. Best wishes for Christmas and the New Year. Keep on coding dudes. ;-) TTFN -- Geoff. Using Acorn StrongARM Kinetic RiscPC. Oxymoron of the day: "Political Science"