Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Blank window. Poser 8

Einzelganger opened this issue on Aug 06, 2009 · 202 posts


bagginsbill posted Mon, 17 August 2009 at 7:09 PM

Quote - I am seeing quite a few responses that are similar to my own situation. The Library palette will appear under Firefox but it won't appear under IE at all. I've tried just about everything. I even reinstalled the core program with Norton disabled. No change. The library works under Firefox but not under IE and of course won't display within Poser itself.  I do not know if it is IE blocking the Flex system or something else.  As per the post above, I can use the Library if I have Firefox running or I can use the XL library python script. So far I'm just using the XL Library and getting on with learning GI.

In almost every case I'm aware of, this is because somebody downloaded Flash for Firefox. You have to download and install Flash for IE, even if you never plan to use IE. It may seem strange and unbelievable, but displaying HTML (and things you can embed in HTML such as Flash) within an application requires a "browser" component. The only one readily available as a drop-in component for application developers to use in Windows applications is IE.

So even if you never plan to use IE as your Internet browser, there are things involving Internet technologies, such as HTML and Flash, that need to use IE as a component, not unlike using the built-in Windows color picker. (Which is also accessible within Poser.) IE is a Windows component, just like the Windows Indexing Service is a Windows component necessary to make the Poser Search feature work.

More and more, the technology to enable complex behavior is modular, and these modules are useful both for Internet applications and local applications. IE is just one of these modules.


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