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Play Now buttons...ugh. in BYOND Help

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ID:678343 Apr 17 2012, 2:56 pm (See the best response by DarkCampainger.)
Albro1	Is anyone else with Google Chrome experiencing any problems connecting to games via the "Play Now" buttons? I have to right click and "Copy link address" and paste it into the "Open Location" in BYOND to connect to games. Nothing outside of my pager or a BYOND game seems to connect. I have a feeling this problem is on my side, but I was curious whether it was happening to anyone else.

#1 Apr 17 2012, 2:58 pm
Toddab503	I'm using Google Chrome, and I just tried a play now button and it worked just fine. Does it happen with every game, and every time? or is it just some sort of weird occasional occurrence?

#2 Apr 17 2012, 2:59 pm
Albro1	Every link to a BYOND game of any sort.

#3 Apr 17 2012, 3:01 pm
Tom	When you type in a byond url (eg byond://Silkgames.NEStalgia) in the url box of your browser, does that launch your pager? If not, then the protocol isn't installed properly, so try reinstalling BYOND.

#4 Apr 17 2012, 3:02 pm
Albro1	Yeah, it didn't work. Funny, because I just installed 494.1132 last night. It was happening before then, though. I didn't think much of it then, however.

#5 Apr 17 2012, 3:04 pm
Tom	Wait, so did reinstalling fix it? You have to do the full install from the .exe. Maybe you don't have the correct permissions to write the registry entries it needs for the protocol?

#6 Apr 17 2012, 3:06 pm
Albro1	Reinstalling did not fix it. I don't see why I wouldn't have the correct permissions.

#7 Apr 17 2012, 3:10 pm
Tom	Does the byond:// url work in IE and/or Mozilla?

#8 Apr 17 2012, 3:13 pm
Albro1	It does not work in GC, IE, FF, Opera, or Lunascape. Only other one to try is Safari, but...I highly doubt it.

#9 Apr 17 2012, 4:04 pm
A.T.H.K	Seems like the protocol isn't installed or isn't installing itself. If Tom could kindly give you the structure of the registry for where the string is held - ie HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > SOFTWARE > BYOND or Dantom > file/s_to_edit Then we could diagnose the issue it may just be you are missing something and we can fix that manually. Can you access Start > run > (type in) regedit

#10 Apr 17 2012, 4:11 pm
Albro1	Yeah, I can get into my registry. That's why I don't see any reason for permissions issues.

#11 Apr 17 2012, 4:12 pm In response to Albro1 (#10)
A.T.H.K	Well when Tom comes back with the registry path we may be able to figure out what has happened.

#12 Apr 17 2012, 5:03 pm

Best response

DarkCampainger

See if you have this key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\byond

Its contents should look like this:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\byond]
@="URL:BYOND protocol"
"URL Protocol"=""

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\byond\DefaultIcon]
@="C:\\Program Files\\BYOND\\bin\\byond.exe"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\byond\shell]
@=""

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\byond\shell\open]
@=""

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\byond\shell\open\command]
@="C:\\Program Files\\BYOND\\bin\\byond.exe \"%1\""

(Chrome v18 seems to be working fine for me)

#13 Apr 17 2012, 5:32 pm

In response to DarkCampainger (#12)

Albro1

DarkCampainger wrote:

See if you have this key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\byond

Its contents should look like this:

> [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\byond]
> @="URL:BYOND protocol"
> "URL Protocol"=""
>
> [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\byond\DefaultIcon]
> @="C:\\Program Files\\BYOND\\bin\\byond.exe"
>
> [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\byond\shell]
> @=""
>
> [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\byond\shell\open]
> @=""
>
> [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\byond\shell\open\command]
> @="C:\\Program Files\\BYOND\\bin\\byond.exe \"%1\""
>

(Chrome v18 seems to be working fine for me)

Yup, I have all of that.

#14 Apr 18 2012, 7:22 pm
Higoten	Can you check in BYOND/bin and make sure that you have a file called exactly byond.exe? (or if you changed the directory for where BYOND is installed, check that the path for where you installed it is the same as the registry key.)

#15 Apr 18 2012, 7:57 pm
Albro1	I have byond.exe. I install it in my documents, where it always installs it. Everything is correct. No idea what the problem is.

#16 Apr 18 2012, 8:01 pm
A.T.H.K	byond.exe doesn't not belong in the My Documents section.. the exe needs to be C:\Program Files\BYOND\bin

#17 Apr 18 2012, 8:14 pm
Higoten	A.T.H.K is right, you may be having problems because BYOND was installed in my documents. You may have better luck by uninstalling BYOND and reinstalling BYOND, but changing the Destination folder to C:\Program Files\BYOND

#18 Apr 18 2012, 8:27 pm
Albro1	Just uninstalled and reinstalled, rechecked my registry, and still nothing. This is very strange.

#19 Apr 18 2012, 9:02 pm
A.T.H.K	Very indeed perhaps remove BYOND once again and run CCleaner's registry clean up tool that will force the above registry keys to be removed. Then install and check, it's a very odd problem you are having....

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