[Xerte] Moving Flex-style panels with text

[Tenney Julian]

Hi Paul,
 
Use a decision icon to place more than one page on the screen at the
same time. Set the erase and eraseOnExit properties to 0, then the flow
will zip through all the pages, display the contents and move out of the
decision with everything on the screen. Add as many pages to the
decision as you want, and add your content to those pages.
 
If you give a page an ID, then you can use that in an event response to
capture onPress and onRelease. Use onPress to execute a script that does
page ID.startDrag(false,x,y,w,h); and onRelease to execute a script that
does pageID.stopDrag(); 
 
As well as facilitating this drag and drop, the use of a decision icon
in this way is very useful for managing complex pages, where you might
have many icons in the tree,
 
Julian
 
 


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	From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Paul Swanson
	Sent: 24 October 2007 22:30
	To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
	Subject: [Xerte] Moving Flex-style panels with text
	
	

	Hi all, 

	I really like the Flex-style panels available in Xerte, and
would like to use them as "callout" containers. I can do this easily
enough if they are not draggable. But in order to get the text to move
with the panels, each panel has to be a page object, so it seems you can
only have one on the stage at a time. If I use a Graphic icon for the
panel, and then a Text icon for the text, should't I be able to use an
onDrag event, grab the x & y coords of the graphic icon, do a little
math and then move the text object accordingly? I've tried using an
Event Interaction with onDrag as the event and the id of the graphic
icon as the icon "property", but it doesn't seem to trigger anything.
And I've tried just adding a text icon to the even that prints "I'm
being dragged around!" but the text never appears, which leads me to
believe I'm not doing the Event properly. Any tips?

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	 Paul Swanson 
	 Harland Financial Solutions 
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