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Charlotte
Charlotte

Reputation: 41

Web GL Globe not working locally

I've been trying to get the Web GL Globe ( http://code.google.com/p/webgl-globe ) working. I downloaded the source code from the Google Code page and unzipped all the files to a single folder. The May 13th release is the latest as of writing. However the index.html page loads without the globe in Chrome and other browsers. I had a quick look at the code but I'm new to javascript etc. It appears some of the references to files are incorrect as if I correct the line:

     background: #000000 url(/globe/loading.gif) center center no-repeat;

to 

     background: #000000 url(../globe/loading.gif) center center no-repeat;

I get a loading wheel gif loading but spinning forever.

Looking further into the code it appears moving globe.animate(); to a different line creates a working globe but without the data loading functionality. I tried the following to get a globe displaying:

        globe.createPoints();
        settime(globe,0)();
      }
    }
  };globe.animate();

Basically I would love a working download (zip?) of the WebGL globe or someone to take a look at the download on http://code.google.com/p/webgl-globe/downloads/list and let me know how to create a working version from the broken code on the site.

Thanks in advance,

Charlotte

Upvotes: 4

Views: 2772

Answers (2)

Cadene
Cadene

Reputation: 57

If you just click on index.html, it would not work, because the js files would not be loaded

<script type="text/javascript" src="/globe/globe.js"></script>

For sure if you use for exemple MAMP (WAMP) and change your document root to /Users/You/Downloads/webgl-globe-master

You will just have to go there in order to load the js files without editing the html code :

http://localhost:8888/globe/

Upvotes: 0

Kinlan
Kinlan

Reputation: 16607

Are you hosting this just by running it off the file system? If you are then that is why the images aren't loading "/" will refer to your root directory. If you are running on something that has python you can run the following from the project directory 

python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000

Then browse to http://0.0.0.0:8000/ and it should work.

showing it working

Upvotes: 5

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