BestPractice
It's good practice to download and install the Designer Launcher every time you install a new release of Ignition. The Designer Launcher is a separate application and is not part of an Ignition release, so it's important not to have an outdated Designer Launcher shortcut residing on your desktop
Until the point when someone finds an exploit and you didn't apply the patch since it's just a launcher. There's certainly less risk of an exploit with a smaller codebase but running out-of-date software is generally bad practice and I think particularly egregious in this case since updating the designer launcher is minimal risk to your production environment
Whenever an Application is launched from a Launcher, the Launcher will check to see if it needs an update. If the Gateway containing launched application is several revisions ahead of the Launcher, the Launcher will provide a popup notifying you that an update is available.
However manual upgrades can be performed. Simply download and run a new launcher installer from a more recent Ignition Gateway. During installation, simply set the installation directory to the same directory as the old launcher.
As of 8.0.13's bundled client/designer launcher, you'll get a prompt if you connect to a gateway that's got a significantly different version of the launcher available. Not quite auto-updates, but pretty good.
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That aside, they only get better, so there's certainly no harm in updating
I think ultimately the issue is that of communication. Once a project gets above a certain size you will have different people controlling the gateway software installations vs those who are building the application. So there is always the chance (ok 100% certainty) that one group doesn't talk to the other about what version of software is in use. Thus is makes sense to automatically minimize the friction by getting the computers to do what they do best - talk to each other.
My test gateway is running on Ubuntu (just to see how Ignition handles linux) and this morning Ubuntu told me that there were new updates available. After doing said updates (1) I could no longer open the Inductive website in Firefox (2) Thus Ubuntu stopped me from downloading some software called Ignition HMI, that's apparently full of exploitable holes
This is on 20.04.1 LTS updated as of today. Firefox 84.0.2 (64 bit). Running in a VM under Windows 10
But I've also had the firefox crash reporter pop up a few times today.
But I can't ping it. Firefox fails to load, but it will redirect from the to the url of the site before dying.
But I can get to the correct inductive site via 2 other systems (windows and mac) so I know it's just the Ubuntu system. My guess is something was screwed up with the update, but as this is a test system I don't really care too much about that aspect.
Same problem here, I even have the same certificate on the Ignition gateway and the ssl termination point in front of it (a web application firewall). Designer launcher works directly to the gateway, but not through the WAF (SSL Certificate not found). The certificate is trusted: LetsEncrypt.
All, not sure if it has been addressed elsewhere in the forums, but Designer Launcher using Self Signed certificates on a Gateway with redundancy needs to have the Subject Alternates included in the Master and Backup gateways. It will ask to trust both certificates. There should be a note in the section stating this is required for Gateways using redundancy.
I just realized I misread the launcher code. It creates a command that adds a launcher to the main area. The file browser extension invokes that command if there is no other widget open. So if you add your widget to the main area in your activate function, the file browser will notice there is something already there and will not create a launcher tab by default.
@jasongrout I am working with aafshar. I tried adding my extension to the MainAreaWidget inside the extension activate function but this resulted in some strange behaviour. More often than not, on page refresh, the launcher is rendered on the MainAreaWidget. However, every once in a while on page refresh, my extension is rendered onto the MainAreaWidget as intended.
Is this the proper implementation of your description above?
Unfortunately, this url did not open the desired testingworkspace workspace but opened just a launcher (I assume it just opened a default workspace). Is this the correct workflow to save and open a custom workspace?
Since the patch yesterday the game launcher won't open for me. It briefly flickers ("initializing") then disappears. I've tried repairing it, reinstalling the game and restating my computer but nothing fixed it. Does anyone else have this problem or know a way to fix it?
i think the launcher is probably already running but stuck, so you need to kill off the "Gw2-64.exe" process in task manager. its also possible the launcher is failing to patch itself due to permission issues, so make sure it can write to its directory (don't put it in program files, but on your desktop or user folder is fine).
For me the launcher window only appears after I kill the task in task manager. So I click gw2, nothing happens except my cursor telling me something is loading. No launcher appears. Go to task manager, end gw2 process (its a high power process). As soon as I do that the launcher appears like normal.
If I don't do the task manager process I can click on the gw2 icon and a process will appear for each time I click but no launcher window will open.
I still have that problem. Guild Wars 2 processes don't seem to close correctly when ending the application. You can do a workaround by killing all GW2 process manually, but I really hope this will get fixed sooner or later.
I have an ELVIS II MX board for ECPI university. About 4 weeks ago it stopped allowing me to launch the instrument launcher. I attempt to bring it up by clicking it and nothing happens. There is no error message or screen flash. It does not appear in the task manager at all. I had previously been using it since June of 2017. I have uninstalled and reinstalled the NI student edition and myDAQ software suite. This has not corrected the issue. There are no real specific instructions on my school site as to what to install other than "This download enables students to install the same NI software used in campus laboratories, on their own laptops and computers. By using the serial number below, students will be able to access Student Install Options for both Multisim and LabVIEW. " I am unsure how to resolve this issue.
if we talk about the epic launcher, there is no other app in this world that behaves worse than this. switching between tabs and menus takes ages. is incredible how bad it is and still no changes years later.
When trying to open DWG's from explorer the default application is set to Autocad DWG Launcher which is found in "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Autodesk Shared\AcShellEx". However, when I try to open files from explorer I get this warning message: "Windows cannot find 'C:\Program Files\Autodesk\AutoCAD 2015\acad.exe'
I think this is the problem, I have the correct application set to open DWG's but that application is looking for a version that is no longer installed on my machine. Can I set Autocad DWG Launcher to look for the correct version (LT 2015)? I have tried repair and a reinstall to no avail.
The Autocad Shell Launcher always remembers the last Autocad program which opened a file. I have this problem as well. If I have opened a drawing in DWGviewer and then double click a drawing in Windows to open it, it will open it in DWGviewer.
To get round this open up LT on it's own, then using the FILE, OPEN menu open up a drawing. Now you can close LT and you will find the next time you double click on a drawing it should open it up in LT
Unfortuantely this doesn't work, I have been opening and closing drawings using LT for a few days now, and the launcher doesn't seem to be remembering that I have been opening files with LT, it is still looking for Autocad 2015.
In Windows, right click on one of the drawings. In the menu that pops up click on PROPERTIES. On the GENERAL tab, what does it say the drawing should open with? If it says DWGLAUNCHER, click on CHANGE and then you can force it to open in LT, or if it says AUTOCAD 2015 change it to DWGLAUNCHER.
I have done this as you say telling DWG's to launch with LT, however, it then opens multiple instances of Autocad which isn't ideal. I just can't understand why the DWG launcher will not 'link' to LT. I even tried deleting the Shell folder in common files and doing a reinstall, but it still wants to open with Autocad 2015! grrr.
I was having basically the same probblem. The difference in my situation was that i had just (last week) upgraded from ACADE 2012 to 2014. When I would double click a file to open, I would get the error on the attached image "file error,png". I had found some "solutions" on theh Autodesk website, but they did not solve my problem.
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