Laszlo demo apps on a iPaq

[dep2905]

I'm trying to run the Weather demo application from Laszlo's website on an iPaq pocket PC, but am
not having much luck.

I installed the latest version of the Flash player for pocket PC (ver 6,I believe) from Macromedia's site onto the iPaq, but I have been unsuccessful running the demos using Pocket Internet Explorer on the
iPaq.

I see on Laszlo's system requirements page that the product was tested on the Pocket PC, but Pocket Internet Explorer is not listed.

How do you run laszlo apps on a pocket pc ? a different browser ? a different version of the Flash player ???

thanks
Dave

[antun]

Hey Dave

This has been brought up recently actually. There could be a bug in the v1 release of the LPS that is causing problems with handhelds.

The Weather app used to work on an iPAQ running Internet Explorer - in fact one of the reasons it was designed small to be able to fit in a small monitor.

We're looking into it.

-Antun

[dep2905]

thanks Antun. So I guess that means I'm not the only one who can't run the demos on a pocket pc. I wasn't sure if the pocket flash player was not installed properly, or the version 6 wasn't supported.

[awallgren]

Originally posted by dep2905
thanks Antun. So I guess that means I'm not the only one who can't run the demos on a pocket pc. I wasn't sure if the pocket flash player was not installed properly, or the version 6 wasn't supported.

I had the same results -- can't get it to work on my PPC.

[antun]

It looks like this can be fixed by a simple change to the LPS configuration:

Add the following line to the <deny> node of the <option name="content-encoding-user-agent" > in the lps.xml configuration file:


<pattern>Mozilla/2\.0 .*</pattern>


BTW, the lps.xml file lives:

C:\lps-v1\jakarta-tomcat-4.1.12\webapps\lps-v1\WEB-INF\lps\config

You'll need to restart Tomcat to get it to work.

Let me know how you get on!

-Antun

[awallgren]

Originally posted by antun
It looks like this can be fixed by a simple change to the LPS configuration:

Fabulous -- I made that change and restarted the server, and it works just fine!

Thank you.

anders

[dep2905]

Antun, I'm running the weather demo off of Laszlo's website. We don't have LPS installed...we're still evaluating it. Has someone done the config change you suggested on Laszlo's side ??

I'm pretty much getting the same behavior. (although it looks like the demo page for the weather app has been modified in the last week or so). When I hit the demo page for the weather app from the Pocket IE on the iPaq I see a text description of the app, and links to apdf and source code, but the app itself running in the upper right hand part of the screen is still just blank.

what are the requirements on the iPaq to get it to run ??

thanks
Dave

[antun]

I've just fixed that on the live website now. Yes we did update the demo page on the live website, but we only added some other stuff to it. Here's the URL for the weather app directly:

http://www.laszlosystems.com/lps-v1/sample-apps/weather/weather.lzx

-Antun

[dep2905]

Antun,
I still get nothing (a blank window) when I run the weather app on the Pocket IE on the iPaq.

[antun]

You're right - we're working on that. Right after I posted I tested it on an ipaq, and got the blank screen.

It has to have something to do with the specific configuration on our website. I've tested it myself on an installed copy of the LPS on my desktop, and it does work fine. I'll let you know when it's fixed on the website, but in the meantime why not download the LPS and install locally. You should be able to make the change there.

-Antun

[antun]

It's fixed now. If you go to the above link, it should work fine.

-Antun