[Xerte] Re: Using <embed> tag in Online Toolkit

Wed Aug 17 10:13:15 BST 2011

I'd wondered about a hack I'd seen somewhere else, where you can position the div with the funny content in it over the flash movie at a place / size of your choosing, making it appear part of the flash content itself: then you could put up a whitepanel type page, and pop, say, a windows media player control over the top of it.

How would we do it? With a new page type?

Preview_xerte_top is the place for any js functions that xerte calls: adding 

makeDiv(x,y,w,h,htmlSource) //does that sound the right approach?

Would be easy enough...

-----Original Message-----
From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat Lockley
Sent: 17 August 2011 09:58
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: [Xerte] Re: Using <embed> tag in Online Toolkit

J, hows about this.

A bit of JS you can trigger inside the play screen which pops up a div
within the window itself?

I'd guess it wouldn't be a lot to code (i'd offer) and it'd mean the
people with non-content would have an answer

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 9:47 AM, Julian Tenney
<Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
> This will update all the templates stuff: I'm just trying to unpick from the
> svn logs the various changes / dependencies etc. Then you can update your
> templates to those in 1.6, and leave the rest of the application as it is.
> Bear with me...
>
>
>
> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Matt Lingard
> Sent: 17 August 2011 09:29
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> Subject: [Xerte] Re: Using <embed> tag in Online Toolkit
>
>
>
> Wow, thanks Julian.  We've not upgraded to 1.6 yet, presumably we'd need to
> as well.
> Regards
> Matt
>
> On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 9:28 AM, Julian Tenney
> <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> You'll need to update some files: bear with me and I'll make a zip for you,
>
>
>
> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Matt Lingard
> Sent: 17 August 2011 09:27
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> Subject: [Xerte] Re: Using <embed> tag in Online Toolkit
>
>
>
> Thanks Julian.
>
> We are using the Online Toolkit and my understanding was that newWindow is
> not an option in this version?
>
> I'm afraid I don't know what you mean by svn - I'm new to Xerte and have
> limited technical knowledge (not just of xerte!)
>
> Regards,
> Matt
>
> On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 9:17 AM, Julian Tenney
> <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> In the newWindow page there is an optional 'html' property. If you add that
> property, you can write HTML for the webpage that will open, so put your
> embed code in there, and it will be passed to the new window to become the
> newWindow's source.
>
> Then you can embed whatever you want, and there's no need to move the media
> from its home.
>
> You might need an updated newWindow model from the svn.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat Lockley
> Sent: 16 August 2011 17:59
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> Subject: [Xerte] Re: Using <embed> tag in Online Toolkit
>
> <a href="url" target="_blank">link text</a> is the only option short
> of media converting
>
> depends on what else you'd want to do, the xerte code lives inside a
> div, so you could write a popup div block of code. Inside that DIV is
> an iframe. Use javascript to set that iframe SRC and show the div.
>
> That might be a feature worth coding.....
>
> On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 5:22 PM, Matt Lingard <mattlingard at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Thanks Pat. That's good to know.
>>
>> In this case, we were hoping to keep the media on it's existing server
>> rather than having to copy it to our xerte server. Not possible I'm
>> guessing.
>> Matt
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Pat Lockley
>> <patrick.lockley at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> You can use the media and quota tab in properties to upload any file,
>>> it'll then give you the HTML <a> tag for that file. Still a
>>> target="_blank" in there and it should open in a new window anyways.
>>>
>>> On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 4:57 PM, Matt Lingard <mattlingard at gmail.com>
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>>> > answer is
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>>> >
>>> > I want to be able to embed some video in a template created with the
>>> > online
>>> > toolkit.  The code I've been supplied with is an <embed> and the files
>>> > are
>>> > mp4. Am I correct that this is a non starter? And is this because Xerte
>>> > is
>>> > Flash rather than HTML?
>>> >
>>> > And finally, I've seen a few 'new window' solutions... is this a
>>> > feature
>>> > of
>>> > the desktop version rather than the online toolkit?
>>> >
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>>> > Matt
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