[Xerte] Re: "Embed Content" Page is blank

Thu Aug 23 10:49:01 BST 2012

The rlt I sent was the one from the current Nottingham installation.  We've not upgraded yet so it's still 1.7.  I haven't sent any 1.8 stuff.  Not sure what's different between 1.6 and 1.7

-----Original Message-----
From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat Lockley
Sent: 23 August 2012 10:44
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: [Xerte] Re: "Embed Content" Page is blank

but this way madness lies as Simon's install is part 1.6, part 1.7, part 1.8

On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 10:29 AM, RonM <ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk> wrote:
> Reading this offline (sort of) so no access to the files but if I
> remember correctly I think there's a call to kill popup in
> Nottingham.rlt
>
> HTH
> Ron
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On 23 Aug 2012, at 10:13, Fay Cross <Fay.Cross at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>> The swf I sent before was from the Nottingham installation where it works but not working for Simon.
>>
>> There's only two frames of code in the XMLEngine fla but killPopUp isn't called in either of them - weird.  Not directly in button clips either.  Can't find it being called in any other file either.
>>
>> I'll find it somewhere...
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat
>> Lockley
>> Sent: 23 August 2012 10:03
>> To: Xerte discussion list
>> Subject: [Xerte] Re: "Embed Content" Page is blank
>>
>> I only did the JS stuff
>>
>> I assume the call is an external Interface somewhere in the forward and back buttons in the xmlengine? closePage maybe?
>>
>> If it works on the sandbox - use that swf?
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 9:49 AM, Fay Cross <Fay.Cross at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
>>> I thought the call to the killPopUp function was in the XMLEngine swf but I've just looked and I can't find it.  Can't seem to find where this is called anywhere... have you got any idea Pat?
>>>
>>> Although I did do some of the work on the pages that use iframes I think Julian did the original code for it and I can't find where this is called from.
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>>> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Simon
>>> Wood
>>> Sent: 23 August 2012 09:22
>>> To: Xerte discussion list
>>> Subject: [Xerte] Re: "Embed Content" Page is blank
>>>
>>> I used Firebug to put a break point in the killPopUp function.
>>>
>>> It's not being called.
>>>
>>> Simon
>>>
>>> On 22 Aug 2012, at 16:19, Pat Lockley wrote:
>>>
>>>> one of the JS functions will be delete something or style.display
>>>> =none
>>>>
>>>> put an alert in that function
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 4:16 PM, Simon Wood <WoodSN2 at cardiff.ac.uk> wrote:
>>>>> I cleared the cache after updating the XMLEngine.swf.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm not sure how to tell if a function is being called - I presume
>>>>> I use Firebug, but I'm not sure how I see it.
>>>>>
>>>>> Again - thanks for all your help today!
>>>>>
>>>>> On 22 Aug 2012, at 15:58, Fay Cross wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Is the killPopUp function in preview_xerte_top being called?
>>>>>
>>>>> Clear cache now new XMLEngine.swf is being used?
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm off home in a sec so we might have to finish sorting this tomorrow.
>>>>>
>>>>> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>>>>> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Simon
>>>>> Wood
>>>>> Sent: 22 August 2012 15:54
>>>>> To: Xerte discussion list
>>>>> Subject: [Xerte] Re: "Embed Content" Page is blank
>>>>>
>>>>> It doesn't do anything odd (as far as I can see) but, alas, it
>>>>> doesn't fix the problem either.
>>>>>
>>>>> On 22 Aug 2012, at 15:43, Fay Cross wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I think you need a more up to date version of XMLEngine.swf - I
>>>>> think this is where the killPopUp() function is called from on page change.
>>>>>
>>>>> I've attached a file for you to try - make sure you back up the
>>>>> version you're using now before trying this in case it does anything really odd.
>>>>>
>>>>> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>>>>> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Simon
>>>>> Wood
>>>>> Sent: 22 August 2012 15:36
>>>>> To: Xerte discussion list
>>>>> Subject: [Xerte] Re: "Embed Content" Page is blank
>>>>>
>>>>> I may have spoken a little too soon... It *is* loading up the
>>>>> embed content, and that's great. However, once you hit a page with
>>>>> embedded content on it, if you go back to other pages the embedded
>>>>> content stays visible! It stays there, hiding everything on any
>>>>> other pages in the LO, until you get to another embed content page.
>>>>>
>>>>> On 22 Aug 2012, at 15:21, Fay Cross wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Oh good, I'd run out of ideas after that J
>>>>>
>>>>> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>>>>> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Simon
>>>>> Wood
>>>>> Sent: 22 August 2012 15:20
>>>>> To: Xerte discussion list
>>>>> Subject: [Xerte] Re: "Embed Content" Page is blank
>>>>>
>>>>> WE HAVE IGNITION!
>>>>>
>>>>> You are an absolute star, Fay. Many, many thanks for your patient help!
>>>>>
>>>>> Simon
>>>>>
>>>>> On 22 Aug 2012, at 15:10, Fay Cross wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Ok, check your play/preview.php files - the popup_parent div
>>>>> should be before the </body> tag
>>>>>
>>>>> I've attached a version of play.php with it in
>>>>>
>>>>> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>>>>> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Simon
>>>>> Wood
>>>>> Sent: 22 August 2012 15:03
>>>>> To: Xerte discussion list
>>>>> Subject: [Xerte] Re: "Embed Content" Page is blank
>>>>>
>>>>> The body contains a div containing the swf but does not appear to
>>>>> contain popup_parent.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm getting an error "parent is null" on the last line (
>>>>> parent.appendChild(create_div); ) of makePopUp()
>>>>>
>>>>> On 22 Aug 2012, at 14:33, Fay Cross wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Your file seems the same as ours which is working.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is makePopUp() being called?  If not, try the attached
>>>>> embedDiv.rlm to see if it makes a difference.
>>>>>
>>>>> Have a look at the html for the page in Firebug.  The body tag
>>>>> should contain a div containing the swf and a div called
>>>>> popup_parent. The popup_parent should have an iframe in it.  Is your popup_parent div empty?
>>>>>
>>>>> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>>>>> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Simon
>>>>> Wood
>>>>> Sent: 22 August 2012 14:04
>>>>> To: Xerte discussion list
>>>>> Subject: [Xerte] Re: "Embed Content" Page is blank
>>>>>
>>>>> The source of the page is here: http://pastebin.com/KT2viTAL
>>>>>
>>>>> I've installed Firebug for Firefox on Pat's advice when he was
>>>>> helping me with a separate problem, but it's not showing anything.
>>>>>
>>>>> Simon
>>>>>
>>>>> On 22 Aug 2012, at 13:51, Dave Burnett wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> What does a "view source" of the blank page show?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ________________________________
>>>>> From: WoodSN2 at cardiff.ac.uk
>>>>> Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 13:41:51 +0100
>>>>> To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>>>>> Subject: [Xerte] Re: "Embed Content" Page is blank
>>>>>
>>>>> Safari 5 and Firefox 14 on OS X Snow Leopard.
>>>>>
>>>>> I created an embed page on the Sandpit, just to check it would
>>>>> work in my browser, and it does.
>>>>>
>>>>> Simon
>>>>>
>>>>> On 21 Aug 2012, at 16:46, Dave Burnett wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> IE or FF or Chrome or?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> From: WoodSN2 at cardiff.ac.uk
>>>>>> Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 16:32:04 +0100
>>>>>> To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>>>>>> Subject: [Xerte] "Embed Content" Page is blank
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Using our Xerte Online Toolkits install, when I create an "embed content"
>>>>>> page and preview/publish it, it is blank (title, no errors, but no content).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I think this has come up before so I've tried to follow how it
>>>>>> was resolved - in particular I've updated
>>>>>> modules/xerte/parent_templates/Nottingham/models/embedDiv.rlm to
>>>>>> the latest version - but I haven't had any success. "Embed content" stays blank.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is there anything else I should have updated or looked for?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Simon
>>>>>>
>>>>>> - -
>>>>>> Simon Wood
>>>>>> Officer for Technology Enhanced Education
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Learning and Teaching Support
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