Generator 2.6 Enterprise
and Developer Edition Release Notes
This document addresses issues that are not discussed
in the Generator documentation and may be updated in the future as more
information becomes available.
See What's
New in Generator 2.6 for details about the updates in this release.
Known issues
General
General authoring
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Mp3 sampling rates of 11k,
22k and 44k are now supported. |
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When using the Insert Sound
object, sound files with a space in the name can now be used. |
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When using the Basic Charts,
relative limits with only one data value now works properly. |
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Negative values are now
properly displayed with the Bar and Stacked Bar charts. |
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Publishing with MP3 files
> 18MB now works properly, but requires increasing the Java memory
heap setting for the appropriate configurations (Online, Offline,
Authoring). |
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The percent symbol (%) within
a Generator ODBC datasource will now be properly interpreted by
Microsoft Access drivers. |
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The Java memory heap allocation
can now be set for the authoring environment. This is done by creating
a system environment variable called "GEN_HEAP_SIZE".
If this environment variable is not defined, the default setting
of 128MB is used. For more information, see Setting the Java memory
heap size (TechNote 16196). |
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Generator variables used in Flash 5 ActionScript must be treated
as string values in order to pass syntax checking. To use Generator
variables within ActionScript, enclose the Generator variable
in double quotes (for example, "{genvar}").
For more information on the use of Generator variables with Flash
5 ActionScript, see Using Generator
Variables in Flash 5 ActionScript (TechNote 14667).
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Ticker objects are limited to a maximum step size of 51.
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The Generator Environment Variable button is only supported in
the main movie timeline and in the timelines of movie clip symbols.
The Generator Environment Variable button cannot be used to provide
Data Sources to Graphic and Button symbols.
For more information and suggestions for working around this
limitation, please refer to Environment
variables cannot be set in Graphic or Button symbol timelines
(TechNote 14034).
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Using Publish Settings
with Generator
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Output in the Real
Player format cannot be created with Offline and Online Generator. |
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Entering a value
for any parameter in Generator Publish Settings tab when no background
color has been selected will cause the currently selected color
in the color picker to be used as the background color. If no background
color is desired, simply remove the entry from the Background Color
field. No value is required. |
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Generator does not
publish interlaced animated GIF files, even if you select the Interlace
checkbox in the GIF Settings panel of the Publish Settings dialog
box. When publishing animated GIF files, the Interlace checkbox
is ignored and no warning is issued. |
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Dithering can only
be set to Diffusion if the Web 216 palette type is selected. If
an alternate palette type is selected (for example: Adaptive, Web
Adaptive or Custom) and dithering is set to Diffusion, Generator
will default to "None" without issuing a warning. Use Ordered Dither,
instead of Diffusion, when working with a palette type other than
Web 216. |
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When
enabled for Generator templates, the Static setting for GIF playback
will generate an animated GIF from multiple-frame templates that
will play through once and stop. Use the #Static frame label, as
documented in the Generator manual, to specify a single frame for
static GIF output. |
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In Generator, the
QuickTime publish settings are limited and do not provide the full
capabilities of QuickTime 4. Generator outputs only a Flash Asset
layer for QuickTime 4, not a full QuickTime movie. To work around
this limitation, author a QuickTime movie in another application
using the desired settings, and then load Generator content when
the movie is played. |
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To specify an external
font file for the Online Generator, use double back slashes (\\)
or single forward slash(/) to separate directories. |
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Template (SWT) files
served from an iPlanet 4.0 Web server cannot be viewed directly
(for example outside of an HTML document) using Internet Explorer.
Use an HTML document to display output from templates in Internet
Explorer. |
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While some Generator
objects and commands create content compatible with Flash 2 players,
other commands use features supported only by Flash 3 (or later)
players. However, Generator will not issue a warning when publishing
Flash 2 version files containing features not supported in Flash
2. Therefore, if you are creating content for Flash 2 players it
is recommended that you test your templates thoroughly and modify
them as needed for compatibility. |
Using text and fonts
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Generator now
supports all the same high ASCII characters that are supported within
Flash. For more information, see Certain
ASCII characters passed to Generator will not render properly
(TechNote 15696). |
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Generator now correctly inserts
the just the specified font characters for a dynamic text field.
For more information, see Font
include settings ignored by Generator (TechNote 15013). |
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When Flash 5's device
fonts (_serif, _sans, _typewriter) are used in a static text field,
the text field is converted to a dynamic text field on export to
.swt format with a limited set of the optional field properties
enabled.
Use the following techniques for best
results:
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Convert the text field to
"dynamic" to retain control over line wrapping when Generator
expands the template. |
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Using the Text Options panel,
adjust dynamic text field properties to recreate the appearance
of a regular text field:
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Uncheck
"Border/Bg". |
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Select
"Multiline". |
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Uncheck
"Selectable". |
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Deselect
any "Embed fonts" selections. |
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Device
fonts are not rendered if "Embed fonts" is set to include
font outlines in the Text Options panel. If you use device fonts
in a text field, deselect any "Embed fonts" selections. |
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The Flash player will
not display text in an dynamic text field contained in a layer that
is masked. Some Generator objects, such as Ticker and Scrolling
List, utilize masked layers to crop elements outside of the object's
bounding box. If you must use dynamic text fields within these objects,
disable masking by setting the Mask To Box parameter to false.
For more information, please refer to Text
in editable fields disappears when inserted using Generator objects
(TechNote 14035).
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Online and Offline Generator
Server
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It is now possible to use ColdFusion, Java,
Java Server Pages or Active Server Pages to deliver an image as
a binary stream to the Insert Jpeg, Insert Gif or Insert Png objects.
For more information, see Images
cannot be inserted as binary stream using middleware (TechNote
15640). |
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The Java memory heap size can now be set for Online and Offline
Generator.
For Online Generator:
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Open the JRun Management Console |
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Select Default Server>Java Settings>Java
Arguments |
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Set the input for the appropriate
value like "-Xmx128M" for 128MB. |
For Offline Generator:
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Use the new -mx option to set the
heap size |
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Useage: generate -mx 128 (for a heap
size of 128MB). |
For more information, see Setting the Java memory heap size (TechNote
16196).
Offline Generator now has the parameter '-version' which will
return the version of Generator that is installed. For more information,
see What version of Generator am I using? (TechNote 16195)
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The JRun Management
Console (JMC) is configured with a default password of "generator2r3"
for the "admin" user for all versions of the product except
for Generator 2 Enterprise Edition (Release 3) for Linux. The default
password for the JMC "admin" user for the Generator 2
Enterprise Edition (Release 3) for Linux is "admin". After
completing the installation of Generator, the admin password should
be changed. |
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Netscape browsers
may reload animated GIF files or have difficulty loading GIF files
served by Generator running with the iPlanet Web server. This problem
can create unnecessary network traffic and distort the GIF file
statistics in the Administration Servlet and Transaction Report.
Please refer to Why
are GIF images continually reloading? (TechNote 14484) for
more information on the problem and steps to resolve it.
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Netscape browsers may
continuously reload GIF files served by Generator if the server's
system clock is set to a time earlier than the time on the client
browser system. This problem is caused by a Netscape browser bug
in which non-cached animated GIF files reload from the server every
time the GIF loops.
Please refer to Why
are GIF images continually reloading? (TechNote 14484) for
more information on the problem and steps to resolve it.
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Problems may occur when
the Web server is running under a user that is not the same user
or in the same group that Generator was installed with. To avoid
this problem, either install and run the Web server and Generator
using the same user or make sure that the user running the Web server
has write access to the Generator directories. |
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Developer
Edition only
The queueSize property is now supported in the Linux release of
Generator 2 Developer Edition. |
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Developer Edition
only
Templates that recursively call Generator using HTTP requests will
time out and return an error message to the client. The Developer
Edition processes requests one at a time, and each request must
complete before the next request can be processed. When an HTTP
request is found in a template, Generator passes that request to
the Web server and awaits the response in order to complete processing
of the template. If the request is for output from the same installation
of Generator, the initial template will time out after 300 seconds
waiting for the queued request to return a response. The Enterprise
Edition is not subject to this limitation. |
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The edition of JRun
3.0 SP1 provided in this Generator package has been fully tested
for performance and stability. For optimum performance and stability,
we recommend that only the edition of JRun 3.0 SP1 bundled with
the Generator 2 Enterprise and Developer Editions be used.
For more information on JRun, visit http://www.macromedia.com/software/jrun/.
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Linux servers
using DHCP may experience problems with FGFTP URLs. If you encounter
such problems, troubleshoot your server configuration and the network
information provided by your DHCP server. |
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If you are
running Solaris Online Generator, there is a problem with a common
screen saver program that is used with the Common Desktop Environment
(CDE). If your system is set up to automatically run /usr/dt/bin/dtscreen
when the user is idle, you may experience difficulties with it.
You should avoid using /usr/DT/bin/dtscreen as a screensaver on
the machine that is running Generator. You may want to do this by
disabling the screen saver in CDE, using a different screen saver,
or by not running CDE. |
Extending Generator
- SDK/API issues
Caching and Administration
Servlet issues (Enterprise Edition only)
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Generator
2.6 does not support the use of the Administration Servlet under
Secure Socket Layer (SSL). |
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On Windows
98, you can open the Administration Servlet, but you cannot save
any properties or make changes to your login. |
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When using
the Administration Servlet, your browser should be set to reload
the page on every visit. Failing to set this option may cause the
Administration Servlet to remain stuck on the login page. This primarily
applies to the Microsoft IE browser, but some versions of Netscape
may also be affected. |
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The Administration
Servlet requires the Flash player version 4 or later. The Administration
Servlet does not work with earlier releases of the Flash player. |
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The transaction
figures listed in the bottom half of the Transaction Report are
30-day averages, not actual counts. |
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The File and
Media caches check file timestamp modifications independently of
each other. To avoid confusion, it is recommended that you set the
Check Modified Since option for either the File cache or the Media
cache, but not both. |
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The Check Modified Since
caching feature now works properly. |
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In order to
reset the values listed in the File Type Statistics section of the
Transaction Report, you must stop and restart Generator AND make
a new file request. The statistics will reset to one with the first
request made for a file type. |
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