Ivan Lyubovnikov

Hi visualizer,

The process of creating a desktop app can hang when the App Manager tries to download Electron binaries (only needed first time) if you have problems with your internet connection. To check if that’s the case you can view the server logs. If you run the App Manager via the desktop icon as shown here: https://www.soft8soft.com/docs/manual/en/introduction/App-Manager.html#Using_Desktop_Application then you can see the logs in the opened console window:

Hi GLiFTeK,

GLiFTeK wrote:

final lesson from this post is that in init.plug files’ in the xml any <field> tags need a name now

We will fix this issue in the next minor update this or next week. Unnamed fields won’t crash your plugin blocks anymore. Still you need to correctly specify the field name, because otherwise the puzzles editor won’t understand which field to modify and will simply ignore it (will also print a relevant warning in the browser console).

In case you didn’t know that yet you can check out the xml tree for a puzzle block via the “Print Puzzle XML Tree” context menu option. More info here: https://www.soft8soft.com/docs/manual/en/puzzles/Plugins.html#init_plug_available_puzzles

GLiFTeK wrote:

One thing I’m noticing with the new update is that the names of puzzles (above the actual puzzle in the menu) when using dark mode are all in black text now so it’s very hard to read them. They used to be white.

Thanks for reporting! We’ll fix this bug in the next minor update too.

johnson0903 wrote:

But I can’t see the file extension. Can anyone help?

Hi, can you attach the blender file so we can test that?

Glad it helped!

Good to know!

I think it might be one of chrome extensions you use that causes this issue. You can try to browse chrome as a guest: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/6130773?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop
In guest mode extensions are not available, so it’s a good way to test if the demo works or not at all in chrome.

Hmm, that’s weird because I just tried your link: https://testing-file.webflow.io/snipcart on my machine and it works without problems. Can you show if there are any error messages in the browser console?

Ah, yes, it doesn’t simply work like that because the main page and the iframe are not of the same origin (basically, they are from different domains: one is https://testing-file.webflow.io/ and the other – https://cdn.soft8soft.com – and that is not allowed for security reasons).

There’s a way to work with that but it requires a bit different approach.

You need to paste the following code sample into the Embed Code Editor in Webflow:

<iframe width="999" height="800" src="https://cdn.soft8soft.com/AROAJSY2GOEHMOFUVPIOE:4821bbbc03/mousetrack/mousetrack.html"></iframe>
<script>
    let v3dPort;
    window.addEventListener('message', e => {
        if (e.data = 'v3dChannelInit') {
            v3dPort = e.ports[0];
        }
    });
    document.body.addEventListener('mousemove', e => {
        if (v3dPort !== undefined) {
            v3dPort.postMessage({ type: 'mousemove', x: e.clientX,
                    y: e.clientY });
        }
    });
</script>

– you can notice that the iframe doesn’t need “id” anymore.

And you also need to add the following code snippet into the 3d scene:

let channel = new MessageChannel();
channel.port1.onmessage = e => {
    if (e.data.type === 'mousemove') {
        let customEvent = new MouseEvent('mousemove', 
                { clientX: e.data.x, clientY: e.data.y } );
        app.container.dispatchEvent(customEvent);
    }
};

window.parent.postMessage('v3dChannelInit', '*', [channel.port2]);

– you can do that in the Puzzles Editor via the “exec script” puzzle like this:

This way both the main page and the iframe window can interact with each other.