Strange effect in UI of FM-9
Dear all, On 24 Jul 2009 I reported about the following effect: > After working on toolbars, the utilities Character Palette and Hex Input > are not executing any more. Clicking on the menu item does nothing. By chance I have found the reason for this behaviour when I noticed that everything worked correctly when starting FM-9 from a shortcut and the problem occurs when starting FM-9 from my launch bar RipBar. It turns out that the effect appears only, if FM-9 is invoked with DOS- names like H:\Adobe\FRAMEM~1.9EN\FRAMEM~1.EXE. Everything works fine when using long Windows names (H:\Adobe\framemaker.9en\FrameMaker.exe). It seems that the utilities are called from the main program with a special mechanism where this difference counts. Don't ask me how I got the DOS names, but I have noticed that even standard Windows shortcuts may get these. Klaus Daube ~ Docu + Design Daube; Sch?racher 11; CH-8053 Z?rich Technical documentation & consultancy; On-line and paper F: +41-44-422 86 25 E: ddd at daube.ch W: www.daube.ch
Re: Strange effect in UI of FM-9
Dear all, On 24 Jul 2009 I reported about the following effect: > After working on toolbars, the utilities Character Palette and Hex Input > are not executing any more. Clicking on the menu item does nothing. By chance I have found the reason for this behaviour when I noticed that everything worked correctly when starting FM-9 from a shortcut and the problem occurs when starting FM-9 from my launch bar RipBar. It turns out that the effect appears only, if FM-9 is invoked with DOS- names like H:\Adobe\FRAMEM~1.9EN\FRAMEM~1.EXE. Everything works fine when using long Windows names (H:\Adobe\framemaker.9en\FrameMaker.exe). It seems that the utilities are called from the main program with a special mechanism where this difference counts. Don't ask me how I got the DOS names, but I have noticed that even standard Windows shortcuts may get these. Klaus Daube ~ Docu + Design Daube; Schäracher 11; CH-8053 Zürich Technical documentation & consultancy; On-line and paper F: +41-44-422 86 25 E: d...@daube.ch W: www.daube.ch ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Strange effect in UI of FM-9
Dear all, In my experiments to change the dull gray toolbar buttons to colour I have noticed a very strange side effect: - To get the buttons coloured, in the xml files of the toolbars I have exchanged the names of the icons. - I have also introduced acomment in to mention this fact Things work fine (see http://www.daube.ch/docu/fmaker54.html - not yet 'released'), but the two utilities Character Palette and Hex Input are not executing any more. Clicking on the menu item does nothing. Even removing everything from %appdata%\Adobe\FrameMaker\9 to force FM- 9 to copy the original settings from $HOME$ does not cure the situation. Of course, when deactivating, uninstalling, re-installing and activating FM-9 everything works fine again. Is %APPDATA%\Adobe\FrameMaker\9 a folder watched from outer space ? Any ideas are welcome Klaus Daube ~~ Docu + Design Daube; Sch?racher 11; CH-8053 Z?rich Technical documentation & consultancy; On-line and paper F: +41-44-422 86 25 E: ddd at daube.ch W: www.daube.ch
Strange effect in UI of FM-9
Dear all, In my experiments to change the dull gray toolbar buttons to colour I have noticed a very strange side effect: - To get the buttons coloured, in the xml files of the toolbars I have exchanged the names of the icons. - I have also introduced acomment in to mention this fact Things work fine (see http://www.daube.ch/docu/fmaker54.html - not yet 'released'), but the two utilities Character Palette and Hex Input are not executing any more. Clicking on the menu item does nothing. Even removing everything from %appdata%\Adobe\FrameMaker\9 to force FM- 9 to copy the original settings from $HOME$ does not cure the situation. Of course, when deactivating, uninstalling, re-installing and activating FM-9 everything works fine again. Is %APPDATA%\Adobe\FrameMaker\9 a folder watched from outer space ? Any ideas are welcome Klaus Daube ~~ Docu + Design Daube; Schäracher 11; CH-8053 Zürich Technical documentation & consultancy; On-line and paper F: +41-44-422 86 25 E: d...@daube.ch W: www.daube.ch ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
