[Xerte-dev] Re: page linking via html5 playback

[Kemp Johnathan]

Have the changes in the engine been updated to the xerte svn as well as the
XOT svn?

I need to check if the changes Julian has made will have any impact on the
Connector pages - or has anyone tested for this already?

Kind regards

Johnathan

On 13 December 2012 13:21, Fay Cross <Fay.Cross at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:

> Thanks Johnathan, Julian’s just fixed it.  Page links now work in both
> versions regardless of what navigation option is selected.
>
>
>
> *From:* xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:
> xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of *Kemp Johnathan
> *Sent:* 13 December 2012 11:08
> *To:* For Xerte technical developers
> *Subject:* [Xerte-dev] Re: page linking via html5 playback
>
>
>
> You will probably find that in historic navigation everything works OK as
> there is no menu page.
>
>
>
> If you look at the code in the makePages script (the first child of the
> learning object in a pageTemplates project and presumably a XOT project)
> there is code that sets a value for pgOffset. pgOffset gets a value of 2 if
> there is a menu and 1 otherwise - to allow for the automatically generated
> menu page.
>
>
>
> I use this value in the connector pages to calculate an offset for when
> menu navigation is used.
>
>
>
> If I recall correctly there is a method to get the page index but this
> does not recognise the presence of the menu page but rootIcon.gotoPage does
> know about the menu page
>
>
>
> so if you have navigation = menu on your learning object, and a project
> that has a title page, followed by a summary page
>
>
>
> The method to get the page index returns 0 for the Title page and 1 for
> the summary page, but gotoPage(0) takes you to the menu page and
> gotoPage(1) takes you to the title page.
>
>
>
> Kind regards
>
>
>
> Johnathan
>
>
>
>
>
> On 13 December 2012 09:19, Fay Cross <Fay.Cross at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> I’ve just found some problems with page linking in both Flash and html5.
> They both work fine with Linear navigation but if it’s menu navigation then
> in html the project won’t load at all and in Flash the link always takes
> you to the page before it should (I guess it’s not taking the menu page
> into account when getting the page index)
>
>
>
> I’ll have a look at fixing the html version now.
>
>
>
> *From:* xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:
> xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of *Smith, John
>
>
> *Sent:* 12 December 2012 11:54
>
> *To:* For Xerte technical developers
>
> *Subject:* [Xerte-dev] Re: page linking via html5 playback
>
>
>
> Hi everyone,
>
>
>
> I’ve just updated xenith.js to include code which should now convert the
> asfunction links within any of the fields currently supported by glossary
> tags (I pinched the code) into an x_navigateToPage(). This is also used
> when deep linking so can someone test on their live environments (or at
> least with real life data)..
>
>
>
> Will be offline all afternoon (daughter’s Nativity play) but back online
> in the evening…
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
> John Smith
>
> Learning Technologist
>
> School of Health & Life Sciences
>
> Glasgow Caledonian University
>
>
>
> *From:* xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [
> mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>]
> *On Behalf Of *Ron Mitchell
> *Sent:* Wednesday, December 12, 2012 9:51 AM
> *To:* 'For Xerte technical developers'
> *Subject:* [Xerte-dev] page linking via html5 playback
>
>
>
> Hi
>
> starting this as a new thread so we know it remains an issue to resolve.
> Don't think it should delay release of 1.9.
>
>
>
> I'm sure we know this anyway but as a reminder -  the Page Link
> functionality works great via flash playback but when viewing the same LO
> via html 5 playback clicking that type of link results in a blank page as
> the url changes to something like
> asfunction:_level0.engine.rootIcon.pageLink,PG1355303464521
>
>
>
> As a page link can be added to any page I guess there needs to be a shared
> function between all html 5 pages to detech that type of link and change it
> to a LinkID link.
>
>
>
> Is that something you can resolve John?
>
>
>
> Cheers
>
> Ron
>
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