Xara Web Designer Premium 19 vs Web Designer + ?

[doane]

I have had WD Premium 10, 11, 15 and now 19. This is the first time I have tried to set up a PayPal widget. All the other Components I have imported seem to work fine. On line I got the three Paypal widgets to show up in my eCommerce folder, see the attached screen shot for the results when I try to import them, starting with the Add to Cart button. It doesn't look like the link you gave me. I also included a screen shot of my "About" screen.

[doane]

I also get this message when I try to import the buttons from the online content.
I quit using IE years ago. I now use Firefox

[Acorn]

I also get this message when I try to import the buttons from the online content.
I quit using IE years ago. I now use Firefox

You missed the point that Xara was using IE internally regardless of your chosen environment.

I asked if you had Microsoft Edge Webview2 Runtime.
I do hope you have Run as Administrator.

Clearly, you need to contact Xara with this as your set-up is wrong somewhere.

Acorn

[doane]

You missed the point that Xara was using IE internally regardless of your chosen environment.

I asked if you had Microsoft Edge Webview2 Runtime.
I do hope you have Run as Administrator.

Clearly, you need to contact Xara with this as your set-up is wrong somewhere.

Acorn

I tried to dl and install the Webview2 Runtime and it states that it is already installed.
I ran the program as an administrator and tried to import the PayPal widget and I get the same popup window above.

[doane]

Acorn: Do you have an earlier version of XWD Premium?
With XWDP 19 you apparently you do have to upgrade to the subscription base version called XWD Plus now in order to use the PayPal widgets. It's about $120/yearly now.

I am going to see if I can get the code from the PayPal website and paste it into a placeholder; if I understand it that might work. I really don't need all the templates, etc. on Xara, which is available with subscription updates.

[Acorn]

@doane, I do not have v19 but I believe that all earlier versions still work but PayPal might complain that you are using IE.

My techie solution has been to prefix the URL in the XWR file with microsoft-edge:.
You get a blank pop-up and an MS Edge view into the widget creation. Copying code from the MS Edge on and then pressing insert in the original Xara pop-up wrapper.
This is not perfect as the new PayPal buttons do not render in the Xara (also IE) Preview window, which confuses and frustrates.
It is actually far easier to access PayPal directly, Copy Code and Paste into your own Placeholder.

I imagine that Xara has used the URL redirect in v19 to market the need to go Xara Plus, exploiting the fact Xara has not changed its underlying reliance of IE.
This is now fixed in Xara Plus but is is not a valid reason to force people to go down the Xara plus route.

Magix might offer the required fix in a later version.

Quite a run around.

Acorn