[Xerte] Editing products of templates?

[jventola at verizon.net]

I stand in awe. Thanks for the detailed description. That looks to be a pretty 
powerful system. I will be curious to see how it goes.






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From:           	"Tenney Julian" <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk>
Subject:        	RE: [Xerte] Editing products of templates?
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> Xerte uses swfmill only to compile the resources.swf if you want to
> embed fonts or graphics. The main reason for using it is to embed fonts,
> which allows a number of things that dynamic textfields can't do unless
> the font is embedded (like rotate and scale smoothly), and also allows
> you to use a custom font if you want to.
> 
> The XMLEngine.swf is precompiled and distributed with the application -
> it reads the rlo file (which is an xml file) and creates the content
> dynamically at runtime.
> 
> Xerte can edit and compile mxml files, using the flex sdk. This is very
> much work in progress. If you download the flex sdk, and put the path to
> the flex3sdk\bin folder in your windows path variable, reboot your
> machine, you should then be able to compile mxml files into swfs, and
> edit them using Xerte. There is a lot of work to do to make this work
> really well - it was really just an experiment to see if I could hook up
> the flex compiler (and in particular fcsh.exe) to Xerte, to allow flex
> swfs to be created and built. Flex is a very rich framework, and I'm not
> sure if typical xerte users / elearning developers would typically use
> it in it's raw form - I think it more likely that a framework of simpler
> to use classes built on the flex sdk would be more useful. If I go
> further down this road, I'd probably look to build a framework of
> classes similar to the existing icons in Xerte, and leave the hardcore
> flex stuff to FlexBuilder (which is free to us here in academia).
> 
> It would lead to a Xerte 2.0 type application that would actually
> compile swfs and use AS3.0. It would use the flex framework rather than
> it's own engine, and so the differences between that and the current
> Xerte would be significant - it would be hard to recreate the flowline
> metaphor for example. A lot of work to do though, so view it as work in
> progress.
> 
> J
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> Only that Xerte seems to use some other software in getting the job
> done.
> The "interesting" part is that I did not even know you could write Flash
> directly; and while I had heard of Flex, I knew nothing of it, yet it
> seems that xmlx has something to do with Flex.
> 
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> > >Over the weekend I looked up xmlx and sawmill--Xerte has some
> > intersting innards.
> > 
> > What do you mean??
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