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T3D web installer- NP Plugin Registration - Solved

by Scottie Sirius · in Torque 3D Professional · 01/15/2011 (10:03 pm) · 6 replies

Does anyone know whether or not the NP Plugin dll needs to get registered during the install? It doesn't seem to work for people in Chrome or Firefox when I try to use a 3rd party installer. IE registers fine using an ActiveX registration feature the program has.
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Torque Owner Richard Ranft
Roostertail Games
#1
01/16/2011 (6:21 pm)
I noticed that it wasn't working with Firefox, but was too lazy to report it. I sort of figured it would be caught somewhere along the way....

Which browsers does the NP plug-in work with? I have only tried using Explorer and Firefox.

Torque 3D Owner Scottie Sirius
#2
01/16/2011 (6:55 pm)
The Torque web installer works with Firefox ok for me and Chrome. But I want to use a 3rd party installer that has an auto-updater. So I'm wondering what the Torque installer does in the registry so the sample.html page finds the plugin. Whenever I try to use a 3rd party installer the user gets the "Can't find the plugin" error when using Chrome or Firefox. For me it pulls up the game from my Torque installation rather than the program files/gameName web location. So I assume something isn't getting registered properly.

EDIT: Finally found my answer. The NP plugin gets registered in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MozillaPlugins

Torque Owner Richard Ranft
Roostertail Games
#3
01/18/2011 (3:57 pm)
Sweet - so, third party installer needs to add this registry entry. Thanks!

Torque 3D Owner Scottie Sirius
#4
01/18/2011 (4:11 pm)
Yep, check out what the Torque installer puts in there and do the same. There's a bit about the Mime type that you'll see.

Torque Owner Giorgio Zanetti ( JoZ )
Corona Team
#5
01/21/2011 (4:48 am)
Scot can you say what installer are you using?

Torque 3D Owner Scottie Sirius
#6
01/21/2011 (7:47 am)
I was using Astrums installer, it's pretty good but it depends on what you're trying to do I've come to find out. If you want to play in a web page it isn't going to work. Now, I'm using NSIS because it's a little more flexible. Not as user-friendly for a non-programmer like me but not too bad overall. No auto-updater tho.