[Xerte-dev] Re: Xerte editor closes if you add a setup script to the Learning Object icon

[Kemp Johnathan]

Hello Julian,

Thanks for a quick fix - all tests so far suggest this has solved the
problem :-)

Now that I am working on a default .rlo file for the "page projects" I am
including a template and xwd file which is resulting in there being an
extXML, it also means that now the project can take the project name from
the extXML file just as with pageTemplates / XOT.

So I need a new test for identifying when the model is in XOT /
pageTemplate projects and when it is in a desktop project.

What I would like to do is work on the principle that in XOT / pageTemplate
projects the setup script will define a variable "xMode"

Then I can replace the original block

if (extXML == undefined){
    // Page Wizard
    pageIcon.templateData = pageIcon.extXML.toObject();
    pageIcon.templateData = pageIcon.templateData.pageWizard[0];
} else {
   // Toolkits
   myXML = new XML(extXML.firstChild.childNodes[rootIcon.getPageIndex() -
pgOffset]);
   pageIcon.templateData = myXML.toObject();
   rootIcon.setTitleText(templateData.learningObject[0].name);
}

with

if (xMode == undefined){
   // Page Wizard
   pageIcon.templateData = pageIcon.extXML.firstChild.toObject();
  // pageIcon.templateData = pageIcon.templateData.pageWizard[0];
} else {
   // Toolkits
   myXML = new XML(extXML.firstChild.childNodes[rootIcon.getPageIndex() -
pgOffset]);
   pageIcon.templateData = myXML.toObject();
   // rootIcon.setTitleText(templateData.learningObject[0].name);
}
rootIcon.setTitleText(templateData.learningObject[0].name);

The commented lines of code would be removed - they are just there to make
explicit the changes I am proposing.

Not requiring to define a value for xMode in a desktop environment would
make it easier to use the models in a pure desktop project (i.e. one in
which the developer did not even use the "Create new Page Project option"),
but it would need that all XOT projects and future pageTemplate projects
had the xMode variable set.

What do you think?

Given that the line
rootIcon.setTitleText(templateData.learningObject[0].name);

works, would it also mean that if we had a method for the page icon to set
it's title property that we could use

pageIcon.setTitleText(pageIcon.templateData.pageType[0].name);

As a way of overcoming the problem of using the name value to set up the
page title display (probably wouldn't sort out the display of page titles
in the TOC though) mmm.

Kind regards

Johnathan


On 21 February 2012 11:25, Julian Tenney <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk>wrote:

> Try this one please.
>
>
>
> *From:* xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:
> xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of *Kemp Johnathan
> *Sent:* 20 February 2012 22:51
> *To:* Xerte Developers Discussion List
> *Subject:* [Xerte-dev] Xerte editor closes if you add a setup script to
> the Learning Object icon
>
>
>
> I've been doing some tests as part of establishing a standard
> pagetemplate.rlo file for the new version of the xerte editor that handles
> individual page templates..
>
>
>
> However I have hit a problem. I want to include one or more set up scripts
> as children of the Learning Object.
>
>
>
> If you add a setup script then this breaks the process of adding a new
> page. The folder for the page is created in the "pages" folder and the xwd
> and xml files are created in the page's folder. However the insertion of
> the page model file into the project fails. This means that if you select
> "Yes" when the "Open the wizard" prompt is displayed then Xerte collapses
> to the task bar and won't open again.
>
>
>
> If you then close down Xerte and then re-open the project the project
> behaves correctly until you try adding another page.
>
>
>
> Kind regards
>
>
>
> Johnathan
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