Re: Player Pro and Packages
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg87568] Re: Player Pro and Packages
- From: David Reiss <dbreiss at gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 03:32:13 -0400 (EDT)
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Hi David, I have built some sophisticated applications for PlayerPro so far for some customers of mine. The trick with Packages (though perhaps you know this and your problem is different)--and reading in any files that have Mathematoca code in them--is that they cannot be in "human readable" form. For Player Pro to permit them to be read in they must first be processed using Encode. This of course makes sense given the intended purpose of Player Pro. If one could just read in "normal" .m files then one could have a text editor open and Player Pro open at the same time and thereby one could, in effect, have a crude but fully functional Mathematica available. One could also create a Front End to Mathematica in that way using something more sophisticated--like Java. So the restriction to Encoded files is essential to making Player Pro a deployment platform and leaving Mathematica as the development platform. Note that if, for example, your application writes the values of Mathematica parameters to disk for future use using Get, then it needs to write them also with Encode. Also one can create files using DumpSave, and these too can be read in using Player PRo. Hope this helps, --David A WorkLife FrameWork E x t e n d i n g MATHEMATICA's Reach... Trial Version at: http://scientificarts.com/worklife/ On Apr 12, 7:11 am, "David Park" <djmp... at comcast.net> wrote: > How many people have tried out Player Pro yet? > > I copied my private Applications folder over to the Player Pro folder and > tried to run a notebook that used a private package. Player Pro found the > style sheet that came with the package but did not find the package. > > Does anyone know how to incorporate a private package into Player Pro? > Without that it seems to be rather limited. > > -- > David Park > djmp... at comcast.nethttp://home.comcast.net/~djmpark/