[Xerte-dev] Re: Fusing 2 items

Wed Oct 3 15:05:54 BST 2012

There's no reason why you wouldn't still use Xerte to mock up an HTML5 page, but you will have to write the HTML5 side of the equation as well, jquery will be your friend. The wizard isn't going to change, so think if it as a data producer for anything.

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Kemp Johnathan
Sent: 03 October 2012 15:02
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Fusing 2 items

What happens is that you provide all the details that the xwd file needs but if you open an existing page that was created before you edited the xwd file then the extra fields you added do not exist in that pages xml definition. So when you open the form your new fields don't show up.

Once you get the hang of it adding new sections to forms is straight forward. But there are a number of gotcha's that can trip you up whilst you are trying to figure this out for yourself.

I planned to create a simple video explaining how to add a new feature to a page, that would illustrate all the key points in the process. However I have held back until after the AGM as I want to understand first what impact the HTML5 stuff will have on the viability of creating pages in Xerte for use in XOT.

Glad you have got it working.

Kind regards

Johnathan

On 3 October 2012 14:50, Dave Burnett <d_b_burnett at hotmail.com<mailto:d_b_burnett at hotmail.com>> wrote:

Thank you Johnathan!
Didn't even have to Save.
Just delete/replace.

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Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 14:18:32 +0100

From: johnathan.kemp at ntlworld.com<mailto:johnathan.kemp at ntlworld.com>
To: xerte-dev at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-dev at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Fusing 2 items
Try deleting your image viewer page from your project, saving the changes to your project then adding a new imageViewer page.

JK

On 3 October 2012 14:12, Dave Burnett <d_b_burnett at hotmail.com<mailto:d_b_burnett at hotmail.com>> wrote:
2.17
Templates > Page Templates.
Opens template.rtl
Double click LO.
Insert Image Viewer.

Close Wizard.
Edit template.xwd
Open wizard.
Highlight Image Viewer icon.
No change.

Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 13:53:29 +0100

From: johnathan.kemp at ntlworld.com<mailto:johnathan.kemp at ntlworld.com>
To: xerte-dev at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-dev at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Fusing 2 items
Would you mind posting the code for your complete xwd file, and I will take a look at it?

If you are using 2.18 and a pages project, then when you make changes to your xwd file in order to add new attribute fields you need to remember to
1.      open the pages xwd in xerte
2.      Select the top level entry (below the pageWizard folder
3.      Click the delete button (to delete the current xml content for the page)
4.      Close the form
5.      Re open the form
6.      Click the insert button to insert a new default page data into the xml
On completion of point 6 you should see the new form with your extra fields displayed - if everything in your xwd file is as it should be.

Kind regards

Johnathan

On 3 October 2012 13:44, Dave Burnett <d_b_burnett at hotmail.com<mailto:d_b_burnett at hotmail.com>> wrote:
It may be that all you need to do is add
name2="some text"
in the newNodes section of your xwd file after the entry for
url="Whatever text you are using as the default for this attribute"

Coincidentally, name2 is exactly what I originally tried.
Is the "newNodes" section actually creating the object, or just giving it a value so the value doesn't appear as "undefined"?

This is how imageViewer appears for me in the newNodes section

      <imageViewer><![CDATA[<imageViewer name="Dave Enter Page Title" align="Left" url="Select an Image" newTextField="Enter some new text">Enter text for the page here</imageViewer>]]></imageViewer>

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Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 13:22:07 +0100

From: johnathan.kemp at ntlworld.com<mailto:johnathan.kemp at ntlworld.com>
To: xerte-dev at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-dev at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Fusing 2 items
This is not a 2.17 or 2.18 issue 2.18 you should be able to use 2.18

Look at the example I just sent you and see if that makes things clearer.

It may be that all you need to do is add

name2="some text"

in the newNodes section of your xwd file after the entry for

url="Whatever text you are using as the default for this attribute"

Kind regards

Johnathan

On 3 October 2012 13:11, Dave Burnett <d_b_burnett at hotmail.com<mailto:d_b_burnett at hotmail.com>> wrote:

OK, I reverted to 2.17 after running into issues with 2.18.
I imagine that's why I can't find it.

    <name type="TextInput" label="Page Title"/>
    <align type="ComboBox" label="Align Text" options="Bottom" width="100"/>
    <url type="media" label="Imagesdfsdf"/>

    <name2 type="TextInput" label="Daves added input"/>   /// this does not appear?

  </imageViewer>

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Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 13:03:03 +0100

From: johnathan.kemp at ntlworld.com<mailto:johnathan.kemp at ntlworld.com>
To: xerte-dev at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-dev at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Fusing 2 items
Sorry for not being able to reply to you any earlier.

You can find a copy in your xerte installation folder e.g.

c:\xerte\pages\wizards\en-GB\

Kind regards

Johnathan

On 2 October 2012 17:00, Dave Burnett <d_b_burnett at hotmail.com<mailto:d_b_burnett at hotmail.com>> wrote:

er, where's scenario.xwd?

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Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2012 16:39:28 +0100
From: johnathan.kemp at ntlworld.com<mailto:johnathan.kemp at ntlworld.com>
To: xerte-dev at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-dev at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Fusing 2 items

To keep things simple you could simply paste the modelAnswer parameters section as a child of the image viewer  element. This would avoid any issues with the two pages having any parameters with the same name.

If you open scenario.xwd you can see an example of something similar

The page level element is <scenario> and the child elements of scenario are
<gamesetup>
<scenarioActions>
<proplist>

The <pageWizard><newNodes> section declares both the scenario element parameters and its children's parameters so that when a new page is created it already has its child elements populated with default data.

Once you get your example working remember if you want it to co-exist with other Xerte page types that you should give any element that is a top level element in a <newNodes> block a unique name that is not used in any of the other page types. Your model file will then need editing (use search and replace in Flashdevelop) to replace the original name with the new name.

Hope this clears things up if not post back and I will try and answer any further questions.

Kind regards

Johnathan

On 2 October 2012 15:45, Dave Burnett <d_b_burnett at hotmail.com<mailto:d_b_burnett at hotmail.com>> wrote:

How difficult will it be to fuse 2 items?

I'm trying to make a template page that has the Image Viewer occupying the up area with the Model Answer in the Lower.
I think I can work out the template itself, but not sure how to adapt the Image Viewer Wizard to include the Model Answer params.

Dave

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