[Xerte] Re: Xerte 2.n - Page Templates New Window Page

Inge Donkervoort i.donkervoort at tor.nl
Wed Jul 6 10:20:25 BST 2011


Hi,

The teachers from the Globalskolen in Norway are very enthusiastic about 
Xerte to and made a tutorial in Norsk. See this example in the Norsk 
Xerte http://norsknettskole.no/globalskolen/jpg/arnes/0607/video/xerte/

Bye,
Inge

Op 06-07-2011 10:34, Kemp Johnathan schreef:
> Hello and thank you to everyone who has helped me with this issue, I 
> have now found the cause of why the page would not work. The problem 
> became clearer when I tried the project out on a different computer - 
> it still wouldn't work but it did trigger a security message from the 
> Flash Player.
>
> The new window was being prevented from opening because of a lack of 
> trust on the part of the Flash Player.
>
> As soon as I opened the Global security settings (either right click 
> on the project, or for Flash Player 10.3 access the Flash Player 
> settings in Control Panel) went to the advanced tab and added the 
> project folder in the trusted folders list the New Page window worked 
> correctly.
>
> Cue big sigh of relief and impending Page Wizard :-)
>
> Kind regards
>
> Johnathan
>
>
>
> On 6 July 2011 08:20, Ron Mitchell <ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk 
> <mailto:ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Jonathan
>
>     Works fine here so must be something local preventing it from
>     working for you. e.g. downloaded and extracted your zip, opened
>     index.htm, clicked the image on page 2, got the BBC window.
>
>     HTH
>
>     Ron
>
>     *From:* xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>     <mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>
>     [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>     <mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>] *On Behalf Of *Kemp
>     Johnathan
>     *Sent:* 06 July 2011 07:27
>
>
>     *To:* Xerte discussion list
>     *Subject:* [Xerte] Re: Xerte 2.n - Page Templates New Window Page
>
>     "Get the latest files from the svn. Yes, you will need to preview
>     in browser,"
>
>     I updated my SVN after reading your email.
>
>     I have created a new project using the Xerte.exe in the runtime
>     folder of the svn and hence the pageTemplates.xtp file in the
>     svn's runtime/wizards folder. This file shows a Date modified date
>     of 21/06/2011
>
>     I have published the project and then opened the index.htm file in
>     both Internet Explorer and Opera and still clicking on the image
>     fails to open a new window.
>
>     Does the index.htm page have to reside on a web server and be
>     delivered by a http request e.g.
>
>     "http://localhost/project/index.htm"
>
>     or should it work correctly if in Opera I use Page / Open and
>     select index.htm from the file picker?
>
>     I have attached the project so that you can see for yourself what
>     is, or rather is not, happening.
>
>     Sorry to be a nuisance with this but If I can reach a point where
>     I have a working example I can turn it into a Page Wizard and make
>     it available so that Deborah (see recent posts regarding
>     actionscript 3) can use her learning module.
>
>     Kind regards
>
>     Johnathan
>
>     On 5 July 2011 15:24, Julian Tenney
>     <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk
>     <mailto:Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk>> wrote:
>
>     Get the latest files from the svn. Yes, you will need to preview
>     in browser,
>
>     *From:* xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
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>     [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>     <mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>] *On Behalf Of *Kemp
>     Johnathan
>     *Sent:* 05 July 2011 07:32
>     *To:* Xerte discussion list
>
>
>     *Subject:* [Xerte] Re: Xerte 2.n - Page Templates New Window Page
>
>     Last night I downloaded Xerte 2.16 from the website to see if
>     anything had changed. I also updated my svn copy.
>
>     The website version of Xerte has not changed since I started
>     working with the New Page page, it still has the line
>
>     if (pageIcon.templateData.textGraphics[0].url.indexOf('http') == 0){
>
>     The svn update showed no changes either, since my last update.
>
>     Would someone mind emailing me a zipped up working page templates
>     based project that contains a working New Page page, so that I can
>     be sure everything is in order so that I can test it and compare
>     the files to the ones I am using. I tried the model Tom attached
>     and still could not get a window to open.
>
>     One last question, just to cover all bases. Is this one of those
>     things that only works when the project's htm file is opened as a
>     url call to a web server, rather than using file / open in a web
>     browser? I don't have a localhost server set up so I have been
>     testing thus far by opening the index.htm file using open with /
>     Internet Explorer. The project runs fine it is just the New Page
>     page does not open a window, whilst a test.htm file that just
>     contains a bit of html and javascript opens a window with no problem.
>
>     Kind regards
>
>     Johnathan
>
>     On 4 July 2011 19:58, Tom Reijnders <reijnders at tor.nl
>     <mailto:reijnders at tor.nl>> wrote:
>
>     What I see here, but, I am not using the latest code... If I close
>     the Window, I cannor reopen it, unless I navigate to another page
>     and back....
>
>
>
>     Op 4-7-2011 16:51, Julian Tenney schreef:
>
>         I can launch the new window as many times as I want to: you
>         will only get one window though, which is desired. There is no
>         need to navigate back to the page to reset the launching code…
>
>         *From:* xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>         <mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>
>         [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of
>         *Tom Reijnders
>         *Sent:* 02 July 2011 21:11
>         *To:* xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>         <mailto:xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>
>         *Subject:* [Xerte] Re: Xerte 2.n - Page Templates New Window Page
>
>         Tried it, and here it seems to work fine.
>
>         Clicking the image (to open the window) will work one time
>         once the page is open. You have to navigate to another page
>         and re-enter this page if you want to open the window again.
>
>         As this is implemented using javascropt openWindow, you will
>         have to allow pop-up windows.
>
>         Regards,
>
>         Tom
>
>         Op 2-7-2011 17:38, Kemp Johnathan schreef:
>
>         Hello Tom,
>
>         Thanks for the info.
>
>         I tried publishing the new page project and opening the page
>         in both Opera and Internet Explorer.
>
>         The good news is that in the browser I could not get the page
>         to crash to the loading xml display.
>
>         However I still could not get it to open a new window.
>
>         Do I simple enter a URL into the wizard form's URL field e.g.
>         http://www.bbc.co.uk
>
>         or do I have to enter something else?
>
>         Kind regards
>
>         Johnathan
>
>         On 2 July 2011 07:15, Tom Reijnders <reijnders at tor.nl
>         <mailto:reijnders at tor.nl>> wrote:
>
>         Jonathan,
>
>         The new page is a bit of atrange beast as it uses javascript 
>         to open a new Window, i.e. to the est of my knowledge, that is
>         NOT working in preview.
>
>         Tom
>
>         Op 2-7-2011 0:06, Kemp Johnathan schreef:
>
>         A while ago I tried to use the page and hit some issues that I
>         reported to this list, but subsequently have not looked at the
>         Page, being busy with looking at languaging issues for the
>         Page Wizards.
>
>         Following a recent post regarding whether there was a Page
>         Wizard for the New Window page I have updated my Xerte svn and
>         then tried both the
>
>         /templates/pageTemplates folder contents
>
>         and the
>
>         /runtime/wizards/Page Templates.xtp file
>
>         to create a Page Templates sourced project with a New Window page.
>
>         I have experienced the following after creating a New Window
>         page, adding an image and a valid url for the page to open a
>         window on.
>
>         a) Depending on the size of picture the panel can become
>         displaced as shown in the attached picture panel.jpg
>
>         b) I cannot open a new window, clicking on the picture does
>         not open a new window
>
>         c) The project navigation can become frozen so it is
>         impossible to exit the page without closing down the preview,
>         I think this occurs after several attempts to open a window by
>         clicking on the picture.
>
>         d) After the navigation becomes frozen and the preview closed,
>         when I re-preview the project the page load stalls with a
>         loading xml message as shown in loading.jpg. The only way to
>         get the page to load again is to completely exit Xerte and
>         then restart Xerte.
>
>         Is anyone using this page template successfully?
>
>         Are my experiences unique?
>
>         If so what am I doing wrong?
>
>         Kind regards Johnathan
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