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<div><br></div><div>I saw eval() and the hairs on the back of my neck went up.</div><div><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 10pt;">The AW archives still exist, so I just did a quick search and ran across that diatribe.</span></div><div><br></div><br><div><div id="SkyDrivePlaceholder"></div><hr id="stopSpelling">From: J.J.Smith@gcu.ac.uk<br>To: xerte-dev@lists.nottingham.ac.uk<br>Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 13:34:41 +0000<br>Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Avoiding eval()<br><br>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">And you’re still talking about it 11 years later!! Must have made a real impression ;-)</span></p>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Regards,</span></p>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">John Smith</span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Learning Technologist</span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">School of Health & Life Sciences</span></p>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Dave Burnett<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, February 11, 2013 1:29 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> xerte-dev@lists.nottingham.ac.uk<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Xerte-dev] Re: Avoiding eval()</span></p>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">It goes on for about 12 paragraphs. and then "GOOD-BYE!!!!!!!"</span></p>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">It seemed so important.</span></p>
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To: <a href="mailto:xerte-dev@lists.nottingham.ac.uk">xerte-dev@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a><br>
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 13:16:38 +0000<br>
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Avoiding eval()</span></p>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">There was fair bit of pulpit thumping going on back then IIRC… happy days!</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""></span></p>
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<a href="mailto:xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk">xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a> [<a href="mailto:xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk">mailto:xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Dave Burnett<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 11 February 2013 12:12<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:xerte-dev@lists.nottingham.ac.uk">xerte-dev@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Xerte-dev] Re: Avoiding eval()</span></p>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">John, we're damaged.</span></p>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Eval = Evil</span></p>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Julian and I cut our teeth on this type of discussion:</span></p>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";background:#FFFFCC">The friendly challenge was directed to those who, in the past, have said</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""></span></p>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";background:#FFFFCC">REUSABLE, DYNAMIC, CUSTOM LIST FUNCTION THAT WOULD WORK FOR ANY COMPATIBLE</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";background:#FFFFCC">LIST STRUCTURE, AND THAT DID NOT USE EVAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""></span></p>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">It was a long rant ending with the lister's resignation from the list.</span></p>
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To: <a href="mailto:xerte-dev@lists.nottingham.ac.uk">xerte-dev@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a><br>
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 11:49:07 +0000<br>
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Avoiding eval()</span></p>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">We use eval several times in the xenith code. If you know the source of what you are eval()ing then I don’t think it’s ‘BAD’…</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""></span></p>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Since FileLocation needs to be set in order for eval to work then you can do something with string parsing like</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""></span></p>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">var path = FileLocation + $(data).find('learningObject').attr('header').split(“’”)[1]</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""></span></p>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Regards,</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""></span></p>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Learning Technologist</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""></span></p>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Glasgow Caledonian University</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""></span></p>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Julian Tenney<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, February 11, 2013 11:09 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> For Xerte technical developers<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Xerte-dev] Avoiding eval()</span></p>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Can you avoid eval? In the case of file paths, the only thing I can think to do is to use eval(), and I know that’s not the ‘right’ thing to do?</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""></span></p>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">//get the file path from the string “FileLocation + ‘media/header.png’”</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">var path = eval( $(data).find('learningObject').attr('header') );</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""></span></p>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">
<a href="mailto:xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk">xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a> [<a href="mailto:xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk">mailto:xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Smith, John<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 11 February 2013 10:41<br>
<b>To:</b> For Xerte technical developers<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Xerte-dev] Re: Modular Play and New Templates</span></p>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Yeah I couldn’t get any of the methods of jQuery parsing to work with that model in IE with that shape data. Not sure if it breaks some rule or something by
having a reserved word etc but I know one of the JSON objects received from an external for one of the models (flickr or delicious or something) uses a reserved word that IE bokes on….</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""></span></p>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Regards,</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">John Smith</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Learning Technologist</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">School of Health & Life Sciences</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Glasgow Caledonian University</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""></span></p>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">
<a href="mailto:xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk">xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a> [<a href="mailto:xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk">mailto:xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Julian Tenney<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, February 11, 2013 10:26 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> For Xerte technical developers<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Xerte-dev] Re: Modular Play and New Templates</span></p>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> </span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> if (typeof data == 'string'){</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> //have to mangel the data for IE, not sure if this works??</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> data = $.parseXML(data);</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> }</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Seems to have done the trick.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""></span></p>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">
<a href="mailto:xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk">xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a> [<a href="mailto:xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk">mailto:xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Smith, John<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 11 February 2013 10:23<br>
<b>To:</b> For Xerte technical developers<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Xerte-dev] Re: Modular Play and New Templates</span></p>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> </span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Hi Julian</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Check lines 560-568 of the textDrawing.html model as I had to do similar to play nicely in IE. jQuery will quite happily turn text to XML for other browsers
though…</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> var xml;</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> if (jQuery.browser.msie) { // Had to add this in to get IE to parse <shapes> correctly</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> var xmlDoc = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM");</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> xmlDoc.loadXML($(x_currentPageXML).text());</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> xml = xmlDoc;</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> }</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> else {</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> xml = $($(x_currentPageXML).text());</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> }</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""></span></p>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Regards,</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">John Smith</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Learning Technologist</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">School of Health & Life Sciences</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Glasgow Caledonian University</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""></span></p>
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<a href="mailto:xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk">xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a> [<a href="mailto:xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk">mailto:xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Julian Tenney<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, February 11, 2013 9:35 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> For Xerte technical developers<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Xerte-dev] Re: Modular Play and New Templates</span></p>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> </span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">There’s some funky stuff with IE and ajax in jQuery when you set the dataType to ‘xml’. I did have it set to ‘text’, it’s a known thing and I’ll figure it out.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""></span></p>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">
<a href="mailto:xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk">xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a> [<a href="mailto:xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk">mailto:xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Ron Mitchell<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 08 February 2013 16:14<br>
<b>To:</b> 'For Xerte technical developers'<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Xerte-dev] Re: Modular Play and New Templates</span></p>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> </span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Hi Julian</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I updated a test install but then re-installed over the top so that your template installed in the database so at some point the relevant sql will need to be
added to upgrade.php but I'm sure you're aware of that.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">On this test install when viewing properties of either a bootstrap project or an xot project only the flash play.php shows now in the properties window.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">play_bootstrap.php doesn't seem to play very nicely in IE whereas I'm sure
<a href="http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~cczjrt/boostrapLO" target="_blank">http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~cczjrt/boostrapLO</a> did but that's now showing as forbidden. play_bootstrap.php plays ok in Chrome.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">HTH</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Ron</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><a name="_MailEndCompose" target="_blank"></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""></span></p>
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<a href="mailto:xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk">xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a> [<a href="mailto:xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk">mailto:xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Julian Tenney<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 08 February 2013 11:48<br>
<b>To:</b> For Xerte technical developers<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Xerte-dev] Re: Modular Play and New Templates</span></p>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> </span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I got it working, you can check it out and do an xampp install for a quick preview of what’s there so far.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Few observations on hooking it up:</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">- Ages ago, Pat, we talked about firing the data at an ad-hoc page – there is code in the wizard that posts it to wizard.runtime if set, so we did do it. Before
I realised this, I set a property called runtime and used it to point the preview to preview_bootstrap.php. I can’t remember if anyone is actually using .runtime to use a different playout or not (I have vague memories of GEM doing this for their PBL stuff?).
I could have just posted the data to a page, but then you lose all the security stuff.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">- There is much the same code in the various play_, play_html5, play_bootstrap files that we ought to tidy up at some point.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">- I’ve put my own set of .js libraries etc in the /common folder, so that duplicates some things like jQuery, so it would be better to load common libraries
from a central place.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">- I have no idea how hard it is to get appropriate urls showing in the properties tab for the play_, export, etc and have all that working when the template
isn’t Nottingham.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">- Otherwise it’s pretty straightforward to add new tools, especially if you can work with the xwd / wizard for an editor, and jQuery makes it really easy to
pick up the xml and drive the content. Once this penny drops I can see other people wanting to build their own templates and add them in, so it would be worth smoothing out some time. I can do that probably, but I’m not so sure what needs to be in place to
make the properties panel more flexible?</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""></span></p>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Cheers,</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""></span></p>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Pat @ Pgogy<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 08 February 2013 09:15<br>
<b>To:</b> For Xerte technical developers<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Xerte-dev] Re: Modular Play and New Templates</span></p>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Preview and play differ in terms of logged in access and password protection - but the display code should be in a library function.</span></p>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Agree your code base should be shared - wondering if modules could share that. In theory you could add a play parameter to the info file and then probably share the rest of
the code?</span></p>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">That might work better?<br>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Makers of web things of a fair to middling quality</span></p>
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On 8 Feb 2013, at 09:04, Julian Tenney <<a href="mailto:Julian.Tenney@nottingham.ac.uk">Julian.Tenney@nottingham.ac.uk</a>> wrote:</span></p>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Well, it’s more that we have the same code in several places, and things like being able to get the runtime url in the wizard. I added a property to the wizard
‘runtime’ to point to my booststrap.php page. </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""></span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">A related question: is there anything different between preview and play, or could I just use the same file for both?</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""></span></p>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Pat @ Pgogy<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 07 February 2013 17:51<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> [Xerte-dev] Re: Modular Play and New Templates</span></p>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">I would assume we accordion the templates list?<br>
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On 7 Feb 2013, at 16:12, Julian Tenney <<a href="mailto:Julian.Tenney@nottingham.ac.uk">Julian.Tenney@nottingham.ac.uk</a>> wrote:</span></p>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Yeah, that’s pretty much what I’m doing. It will work and that’s fine, just wondering about the situation where there loads of these things…</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""></span></p>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Pat @ Pgogy<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 07 February 2013 15:47<br>
<b>To:</b> For Xerte technical developers<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Xerte-dev] Re: Modular Play and New Templates</span></p>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Duplicate the modules xerte folder into modules new template name</span></p>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Keep the edit php file as it is still xerte</span></p>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Mangle play and preview to present the HTML<br>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Makers of web things of a fair to middling quality</span></p>
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On 7 Feb 2013, at 09:46, Julian Tenney <<a href="mailto:Julian.Tenney@nottingham.ac.uk">Julian.Tenney@nottingham.ac.uk</a>> wrote:</span></p>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Question for Pat I think:</span></p>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">With the html5 playout, Fay has added play_html5.php that does the work, that’s all fine. I’ve got a new template I’d like to build in that produces this stuff:</span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~cczjrt/boostrapLO" target="_blank">http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~cczjrt/boostrapLO</a>. The editor is a standard xerte wizard / xwd thing,
but it uses its own html page to parse the xml and create the content.</span></p>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">So I could add another html page to the folder and repeat what Fay has done for html5, but that seems a bit messy to sustain if, one day, we have loads of runtimes doing different
things, I wondered if your modular stuff handled this in a more graceful way?</span></p>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">There’s another difference here: Fay’s html5 code plays existing content – so you have two alternative urls for the same piece, ultimately we’ll switch toolkits to use the
html5 one as the default, and the old one will remain as a legacy. In my case, it doesn’t work like that, these projects will always only use their html page: so that needs to be the url to display in properties for the project, and I guess that’s what needs
to export as well.</span></p>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">What do you think is the best thing to do?</span></p>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Julian</span></p>
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