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

Kemp Johnathan johnathan.kemp at ntlworld.com
Thu Feb 23 11:50:09 GMT 2012 

Enjoy the skiing,

Have I missed something? What have I done that would prevent you adding
pages to a framework icon?

Kind regards

Johnathan

On 23 February 2012 10:42, Tom Reijnders <reijnders at tor.nl> wrote:

> Done, and included (I think) your changes as well.
> I wonder about those though..., you can't add pages to a Framework icon
> anymore, if I understand the code correctly....
> Jonthan, an editor with both fixes included is in svn now (in
> runtime/tools)
>
> Will look at your list when I am back from skiing... :-)
>
> Op 22-2-2012 11:28, Julian Tenney schreef:
>
>  check it in, I wasn't sure if I had the latest code. I didn't do very
>> much anyway, just added that xmlnode.prototype.getchildbyid, and then used
>> it to find the interface node, line 3740ish
>> ________________________________________
>> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [
>> xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Tom Reijnders [
>> reijnders at tor.nl]
>> Sent: 22 February 2012 10:18
>> To: For Xerte technical developers
>> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Xerte editor closes if you add a setup script to
>> the Learning Object icon
>>
>> Julian, Jonathan,
>>
>> I am not sure whther I committed the latest changes to the editor to fix
>> the bug of generating pages beyond 9.
>> Julian, is your fix checked in already? I'll check, and let you know (and
>> if needed will commit).
>>
>> In the editor I differentiate between a PageTemplates project and
>> (possibly) a Page wizard project (enable or disable the Pages menu) based
>> on the extension.
>>
>> Tom
>>
>> Op 22-2-2012 8:18, Kemp Johnathan schreef:
>> Would it ever be the case that a XOT project would assign a value to a
>> page Icon's templateData property?
>>
>> If this would never happen then I can just reverse the original test,
>> instead of testing for a project extXML I can test for pageIcon.extXML
>>
>> if (pageIcon.extXML != undefined){
>> // Page Wizard
>>
>> What do you think?
>>
>> Kind regards
>>
>> Johnathan
>>
>> On 21 February 2012 16:54, Julian Tenney<Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk
>> <mailto:Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk>>  wrote:
>> Maybe you can check the value of the templateData attribute on LO icon?
>> If undefined, it must be page wizards…  otherwise irs either XOT or a
>> desktop template project.
>>
>> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:
>> xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>  [mailto:
>> xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:
>> xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>] On Behalf Of Kemp Johnathan
>> Sent: 21 February 2012 16:53
>>
>> To: For Xerte technical developers
>> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Xerte editor closes if you add a setup script to
>> the Learning Object icon
>>
>> Neither am I.
>>
>> I was going to ask you if you had any ideas where I would be able to
>> access it.
>>
>> Is the project file in a XOT project always called template? as in
>> template.rlt.
>>
>> It might be easier to check the file name rather than the extension as
>> this will be available in templateData.
>>
>> Kind regards
>>
>> Johnathan
>>
>> On 21 February 2012 14:38, Julian Tenney<Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk
>> <mailto:Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk>>  wrote:
>> Not sure how you get it mind.
>>
>> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:
>> xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>  [mailto:
>> xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:
>> xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>] On Behalf Of Kemp Johnathan
>> Sent: 21 February 2012 14:38
>>
>> To: For Xerte technical developers
>> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Xerte editor closes if you add a setup script to
>> the Learning Object icon
>>
>> Sounds do-able, i'll have a go.
>>
>> JK
>>
>> On 21 February 2012 13:16, Julian Tenney<Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk
>> <mailto:Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk>>  wrote:
>> Could you work on the filename, so if rlt else pageTemplates?
>>
>> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:
>> xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>  [mailto:
>> xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:
>> xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>] On Behalf Of Kemp Johnathan
>> Sent: 21 February 2012 12:52
>> To: For Xerte technical developers
>> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Xerte editor closes if you add a setup script to
>> the Learning Object icon
>>
>> 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
>> <mailto: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>  [mailto:
>> 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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