[Xerte] toolkit on a stick

[ron at kccsoft.com]

Just so I'm clear on this...can we still develop online training in the
xerte3 or is xerte3 intended as a development tool for 'toolkits'?

 

RonM2

 

 

 

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2010 2:03 PM
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: RE: [Xerte] toolkit on a stick

 

But it looks like Toolkits and Xerte 3 will be the future.

 

Xerte 2.x isn't going anywhere - in fact I wonder whether Xerte 3 should
really be called Xerte 3 as there isn't really an upgrade path for xerte 2
files, and it might just get really confusing. Maybe we need a different
name for it to distinquish it. Already, too many people refer to Toolkits as
Xerte. Maybe we should rebadge that too. Thinking of names is hard.

 

Xerte 3 is very much a developer's tool right now, and will be for the
foreseeable future, although a Xerte 3 runtime ought to be able to easily
consume toolkits data (i.e. xml made with the wizard). The Flex 4 SDK that
Xerte 3 is built on is nearly finished now, and will be released shortly by
Adobe: Flex 4 is a much richer framework that achieves very similar things
to the Xerte 2 framework. The difference is I wrote the Xerte 2 framework,
warts and all, whereas Adobe write, maintain, upgrade the Flex 4 SDK - which
offers a lot more, and saves me a ton of work. There are many similarities,
as Xerte 2 was inspired by a mix of Authorware and Flex.

 

I'd really like to get some of you coders playing around with Xerte 3 now,
and telling me what you think, what works, what doesn't, what's hard to do
that should be easy. We need to start creating some knowledge around it, as
it's quite different. There are 63 types of icon, rather than 9, which gives
you a good idea of how much richer it is. I imagine a beta lasting most of
the rest of this year as you guys start to come to the party.

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