[Xerte] Writing/reading text

[Julian Tenney]

loadVars is wrapped already:

iconID.loadVars(url);

the icon fires the onLoadVars event when the data comes back

and you get the data in iconID.rawData

J

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From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of John Lannon
Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 12:03 AM
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Subject: RE: [Xerte] Writing/reading text

Thanks Paddy and Paul for replies.
 
Having looked again at the actionscript possibilities it seems I should
also be able to use the loadVars class (send and load methods) to
read/write text to a URL. It should work with a URL that is a local or
server file?? ... have tried it briefly but no luck so far.
 
John

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From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk on behalf of Patrick Lockley
Sent: Fri 07/08/2009 11:22
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Subject: RE: [Xerte] Writing/reading text



Hi John,

 

Xerte doesn't directly have the ability to save a file, as it's flash
based and as such relies on flash's file handling functions (i.e open
only). However, you could write a server side script to handle that for
you.

 

So that would work for you on a server, but it would not work for using
a CD. 

 

There is an send and load event which can obtain XML / any other data.

 

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of John Lannon
Sent: 07 August 2009 10:08
To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
Subject: [Xerte] Writing/reading text

 

Hello all,

 

I'm new to Xerte and to the list but I've set up the standalone exe
version, looked through the examples, and created/published my own basic
template-based learning object.

 

My question is as follows: I want to create an interactive online
application where the user is presented with questions (mostly text
entry panels for large amounts of text); the user can save their input
at any time, and can reload them into the appropriate panels when they
re-start. I want to run the published project from a server or CD and
save the entered text locally on the user's PC.

 

I presume I can write/read from an XML file, but would welcome any
advice or examples.

 

Thanks in advance,

 

John Lannon

Systems Developer [Human Rights Impact Resource Centre] Aim for human
rights

Email: j.lannon[at]aimforhumanrights[dot]org