[Xerte] Xerte3: on Mac?

Julian Tenney Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk
Thu Jul 1 14:22:25 BST 2010


There was a showstopper for Air last time I looked into it...

-----Original Message-----
From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Patrick
Lockley
Sent: 01 July 2010 14:20
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Subject: RE: [Xerte] Xerte3: on Mac?

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/air/flex/articles/exploring_file_capabilitie
s.html

I don't want to read all of it as I own an Iphone and would like it to
keep working.

-----Original Message-----
From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 01 July 2010 14:18
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Subject: RE: [Xerte] Xerte3: on Mac?

I don't think Air can do all the things we need... can it access local
files?

-----Original Message-----
From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Patrick
Lockley
Sent: 01 July 2010 14:17
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Subject: RE: [Xerte] Xerte3: on Mac?

Or could some one write an Air wrapper? It being open source and all...

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 01 July 2010 14:16
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Subject: RE: [Xerte] Xerte3: on Mac?

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~cczjrt/xerte3mac.zip

We need to buy the mac plugin for zinc ($300), and write some
abstraction code for handling the windows / mac specifics (i.e. a wrappr
class for doing if (windows then do this else if mac then do this)).
I've deliberately kept that code to a minimum so far to make this
easy...




-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Peter
Huppertz
Sent: 01 July 2010 14:09
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: [Xerte] Xerte3: on Mac?

I really like Xerte3, as you may assumed from my number of posts
recently. The only pain is that I have to run it in my virtual machine
on my Mac. This makes it extremely slow and, as I already pointed out,
it crashes about every 5-10 previews. Do you see any possibility to
create a Mac Version? I just tried to open the XerteEditor.swf, which
works quite fine. But, sure, I can't load any files ... I guess that's
where the Zinc part comes in. Creating a Mac version could be also a
great selling point for Xerte, cause most of the e-learning suites out
there are Windows only. What do you think?

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Peter Huppertz
E-learning and IT Specialist
International Centre for Asset Recovery
Basel Institute on Governance
Phone: +41 61 205 55 18
Fax: +41 61 267 55 19

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