[Laszlo-dev] Loading lzx file errors

[Raju Bitter]

I'm glad that you could solve your problem, Chen Ding.

Tucker, could this be a problem with the user agent? In that case the  
page should never show, but maybe the problem is connected to it.
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=5985


On Jul 21, 2009, at 1:34 PM, P T Withington wrote:

> I suspect there may be some issue in browsers that aggressively try  
> to cache.
>
> I have seen similar issues in Safari 4 with Jira where reloading the  
> same page causes just a blank page.
>
> This makes me think somebody (either browser or server) is not  
> getting their cache signals straight.
>
> On 2009-07-21, at 07:32EDT, Chen Ding wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the help. It turned out that the problem was not caused by
>> OpenLaszlo, but by Chrome. The same code, if I use Firefox, it  
>> worked just
>> fine.
>> BTW, for your information:
>>  + Java JDK  jdk1.6.0_05
>>  + OS: Linux
>>  + Tomcat: the one that came with OpenLaszlo (tomcat-5.0.24)
>>
>> Thanks again for the help!
>>
>> Chen Ding
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 7:21 PM, Raju Bitter <rajubitter at me.com>  
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Which versions of other software components do you use?
>>> + Java JDK
>>> + OS
>>> + Tomcat
>>>
>>> I'll try to reproduce the problem.
>>>
>>> - Raju
>>>
>>> On Jul 21, 2009, at 11:37 AM, Chen Ding wrote:
>>>
>>> I am sure the tomcat server was not crashed because if the button  
>>> did not
>>> show up, if I reload the file again, the button might show up. It  
>>> was just
>>> not that certain that the application would be loaded.
>>> Thanks for your recommendation. Here is what I did. I clicked the  
>>> "SOLO"
>>> button for the "Deploy:" option. It popped up a dialog that  
>>> generated a swf
>>> file for the application. If I load the swf file instead of the  
>>> "lzx" file,
>>> that will not go through the "compiler", and that will be safer  
>>> and more
>>> efficient. Is this understanding right?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> Chen Ding
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 10:23 PM, P T Withington <ptw at pobox.com>  
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm only aware of this ever happening if the tomcat server  
>>>> crashes, so you
>>>> might want to look at your tomcat logs.
>>>>
>>>> We highly recommend that deployed applications be compiled in  
>>>> SOLO mode so
>>>> that you eliminate the overhead (and possible security issues) of  
>>>> running
>>>> the tomcat-based compiler.  The tomcat server and compiler are  
>>>> really
>>>> intended only as a development environment.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 2009-07-20, at 00:30EDT, Chen Ding wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi there,
>>>>> It appears that when we load an lzx file, the system may fail  
>>>>> loading
>>>>> (i.e.,
>>>>> not showing anything). Below is an example:
>>>>>
>>>>> <canvas>
>>>>> <button text="testing"/>
>>>>> </canvas>
>>>>>
>>>>> Try to load (and reload) this file multiple times. Sometimes,  
>>>>> the button
>>>>> does not show up at all. This makes us worry very much. We are  
>>>>> going to
>>>>> roll
>>>>> out our applications. This will simply kill the whole project.
>>>>>
>>>>> It happened occasionally in the past, but we did not pay much  
>>>>> attention
>>>>> to
>>>>> it, thought it might be our fault.
>>>>>
>>>>> We are running 4.4.1, but the same problem appears in at least  
>>>>> 4.3.1.
>>>>>
>>>>> Your help is greatly appreciated!
>>>>>
>>>>> Chen Ding
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
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