[Xerte] templatePath problem in Page Templates with Desktop Xerte 2

Tue Nov 9 15:04:28 GMT 2010

Don't know how your wrapper works, but I'm guessing you'll have to get that var into the wrapper and pass it down to the embedded .rlo swf

From: maryann at moberg.com
Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 08:19:41 -0500
Subject: Re: [Xerte] templatePath problem in Page Templates with Desktop Xerte	2
To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk

Thanks, Dave & Julian, we'll play around and see what happens.

ma

On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 5:54 AM, Julian Tenney <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:

Right at the top of the engine code is this:

var FileLocation = _level0.FileLocation;

var templatePath = _level0.templatePath;

if (templatePath == undefined){

                templatePath = FileLocation;

}

i.e. if templatePath is passed in from the html page (as below),
it uses that path, otherwise it should be the same path as fileLocation.

Try assigning a flashvar templatePath in your javascript and
passing it into the movie.

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Dave Burnett

Sent: 08 November 2010 22:11

To: Xerte list

Subject: RE: [Xerte] templatePath problem in Page Templates with Desktop
Xerte 2

This is all highly un-researched, just indirect references I found in the
archives:

"You need to distinquish between template path and FileLocation when
running in toolkits, as the two locations are different. 

FileLocation is the folder where the xml file is; templatePath is the folder
where the rlt is. 

Locally, the two are the same."

I did a search in a local copy of XOT and found this in rloObject.js:

var templatePath = rloFile.substr(0, rloFile.lastIndexOf('/') + 1);

================

I'm guessing .rloFile refers to the domain path to the .rlo on the server.

So my shot in the dark is you have to make sure templatePath is pointing to the
folder where your .rlt is located (not the .rlo), as it looks like it defaults
to above).

Dave

From: maryann at moberg.com

Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2010 16:36:10 -0500

To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk

Subject: [Xerte] templatePath problem in Page Templates with Desktop Xerte 2

We've been using the page wizards to create learning objects that we then load
into a flash wrapper application that creates a menu of them so that the user
can select them as desired.  

Everything works fine with the wizard created pages when run directly in the
browser.  

All xerte pages that are created by hand rather than by page templates work
fine when run in our wrapper and also when published and run on their own in a
browser.  

The problem comes when we run an rlo file containing wizard-created pages from
our flash wrapper - it can't seem to resolve "templatePath" in order
to find the panel.swf that I reference. 

We can't find where templatePath is being assigned.  Looked around on the
wiki page the source for xerte.swf but couldn't find it.

Here's the line from the one of the page template rlm files:

        <DIS
tabIndex="-1" id="panel" name="panel"
x="-300" y="20" type="ext" url="templatePath
+ 'common/whitePanel.swf'"><![CDATA[]]></DIS>

Tried substituting "fileLocation" for it but that didn't work.  

What did work is just removing "templatePath"  from the url like
this:

        <DIS
tabIndex="-1" id="panel" name="panel"
x="-300" y="20" type="ext" url="'common/whitePanel.swf'"><![CDATA[]]></DIS>

Here's how we're loading the rlo file in our flash wrapper:

this._parent.attachMovie('Xerte', 'myRLO', 0).init('DABB.rlo', 230, 80, 1020,
640);

In short, we've figured out a way to edit the rlo files so that they work in
our wrapper but then they don't work outside of it.  

Hoping there's a way to get the same file to work in both situations.

Thanks!!

ma

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