I am trying to update a site which uses the accordian and am getting the following error…
Resource can not be found:
The file Macintosh HD:Users:myname:.Trash:Protaculous 2.fwactionb:Contents:Resources:Actions:prototype1602packer.js for this resource cannot be found – it will not be published.
It also can’t find glider.js or scriptalicious181packer.js Seems it is looking for Protaculous in the Trash? I clear the error, have tried reinstalling the action, restarting Freeway. Keep getting the same error.
Any suggestions? I’ve not changed the page at all.
Don’t know what’s going on under the hood…
Thank you to the Freeway geniuses out there!
Jan
I took Transition FX off each element within one accordian - still get the Transition FX error: “theItem has no properties” in the fwBeforeEndBody() function in the line var theTag = theItem.fwClosing;
I published it - the actions seem to be working - the accordians, carousels, etc. When I go back and reapply the Transition FX to the item I removed it from. I immediately get the error in the Action window. I clicked removed error. Reapplied it to all the elements within the accordian. Get the same type of “Resource can not be found” message in the Publish Problems window as before - only not so many of them - down to four.
This will bring down a whole lot of Actions in a Gzipped archive
(double-click to expand), but the only ones you need to worry about
are Protaculous, ScriptyAccordion and ScriptyLightbox.
Install these over your existing copies by opening the folder /Users/
yourname/Library/Application Support/Freeway 5/Actions/General[1] in
the Finder and removing the versions you find there, replacing them
with the versions you downloaded. (Some people have reported
additional success by quitting Freeway while you pull the tablecloth
out from under the dishes like this. I haven’t noticed any difference
there myself. What you will definitely want to do is remove the
ScriptyAccordion Action from the page element(s) to which it is
attached, publish once, and then re-apply it after you have made the
switcheroo.)
The issue is that Softpress and I did not properly agree on the
internal path to support files. I stored mine alongside the action
file, and Softpress standardized on placing them in a sub-folder
called Support Files~. Since only one Action may attach the library
files at the end of the page publish cycle, all Actions have to know
where to look for these files. As a designer, you have limited control
over which Action will fire last, and thus whether the support files
will be found in their actual locations.
Walter
You may be one of the one or two people who install these in the /
Library/Application Support folder tree, rather than your user’s
private Library, so that multiple users can access the same Actions.
If so, you know what to do.
On Apr 7, 2010, at 11:48 AM, jan smoot wrote:
Walt,
I took Transition FX off each element within one accordian - still
get the Transition FX error: “theItem has no properties” in the
fwBeforeEndBody() function in the line var theTag = theItem.fwClosing;
I published it - the actions seem to be working - the accordians,
carousels, etc. When I go back and reapply the Transition FX to the
item I removed it from. I immediately get the error in the Action
window. I clicked removed error. Reapplied it to all the elements
within the accordian. Get the same type of “Resource can not be
found” message in the Publish Problems window as before - only not
so many of them - down to four.
Thanks for the great suggestion. I downloaded and installed the new actions, deleted the old action - though didn’t find ScriptyAccordian. Did find Script Action Set.
Now I am getting a “Resouce error - can’t find … Protaculous2.fwactionb…” That make any sense? There was an action with this name in the General file and I deleted it. (If I put it back in the General folder, Freeway says I have duplicate actions.)
Then I get the Transition FX error again (same one) Hit Okay. Get a “Could not publish” message. Upload again - without clearing the error. It uploads and seems to function.
I still have the JavaScript Error message in the Action window of my accordian items.
Documents can have embedded versions of Actions as well as the ones
you actually install. In the case of Protaculous or any other “bundle”
action (filename ends in fwactionb rather than fwaction) this will be
disastrous, because the embedded Action is missing all the bundled
resources needed for it to work correctly.
This is why I encourage you to test this with a completely new
document, or go through this document and remove all instances of the
Actions from every page.
To my memory, there never was a Protaculous2.fwactionb file, only
Protaculous.fwactionb. So right off, that trips my wires and makes me
think you actually do have more than one installed version of this
Action, perhaps owing to downloading it more than once into the same
location on your hard disk.
Walter
On Apr 7, 2010, at 4:22 PM, jan smoot wrote:
Nothing in HD>Library>Application Support>Freeway 5>Actions folder
I agree with you - that I must have downloaded it more than once, etc. I have removed Protaculous2 from the library folder and from what you are saying it is somehow embedded in the file. Why on earth do documents have embedded versions of Actions?
Question is - what to do now. You are saying that I should remove all instances of the Actions from every page. That’s a lot! But, I will proceed with that guidance.
Thanks again.
You could turn off the problem action by opening the document you want to remove action from, going to the Edit menu and select Actions. Within the list, uncheck all the pieces of the problem action then save and close the document. On re-opening the document the action will be inactive and available to be deleted from document.
Because if you pass the document to someone else who doesn’t have the
Action installed, they can still get something done with the document.
This works more or less as advertised – unless you are dealing with
one of these bundle Actions. Then it fails rather spectacularly. Oh,
and the old way of bundling resource libraries, much as Weaver has
done with his MooTools stuff, also breaks in this situation.
Walter
On Apr 7, 2010, at 5:47 PM, jan smoot wrote:
Why on earth do documents have embedded versions of Actions?