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

[Kemp Johnathan]

I have copied the engine from the XOT svn to my xerte runtime and created a
pageTemplates project with a few connector pages and a quick test looks
like all is still OK in linear and menu navigation modes so I think the
Connector pages are unaffected by the changes Julian has made.

Kind regards

Johnathan

On 14 December 2012 09:57, Kemp Johnathan <johnathan.kemp at ntlworld.com>wrote:

> 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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