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

Pat Lockley patrick.lockley at googlemail.com
Wed Aug 17 11:02:36 BST 2011 

Yeah, I would make it dynamically this way you could create multiple
pop ups. And it would solve the "why can't it take this format issue".
Then I'd recode media + quota to allow for a JS pop up code block as
well?

Might mess with the accessibility though.

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 10:44 AM, Julian Tenney
<Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
> What happens when Joe User changes the size of the stage?
>
> Can you easily code me a makeDiv() function?
>
> makeDiv(x,y,w,h,src,draggable);
>
> x: x coord of the div;
> y: y coord of the div
> w: width of the div
> h: height of the div
> src: either the html for the div, or a url for the iframe: the function can decide which it is [if (src.substr(0,1) == '<' or similar]
> draggable: whether to all the div to be draggable or not - default false
>
>
> -----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 10:26
> To: Xerte discussion list
> Subject: [Xerte] Re: Using <embed> tag in Online Toolkit
>
> yeah, perhaps a "draggable" and or / an 'src' option which could do an iframe?
>
> On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 10:13 AM, Julian Tenney
> <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
>> 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
>>>
>>> To: Xerte discussion list
>>> 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
>>>
>>> To: Xerte discussion list
>>> 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
>>> To: Xerte discussion list
>>> 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>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> > Hi everyone,
>>>>> >
>>>>> > From browsing back through various messages I'm pretty certain the
>>>>> > answer is
>>>>> > "no", but just wanted to be 100% certain that I'm understanding Xerte
>>>>> > (as a
>>>>> > newbie).
>>>>> >
>>>>> > 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?
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Regards,
>>>>> > Matt
>>>>> >
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