[Xerte] Re: resize problem with XOT 1.8 stops it working

Ron Mitchell ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk
Thu Dec 20 17:40:58 GMT 2012


Hi Liz

there may be two different things here but I was responding to your point
about not being able to resize whilst viewing locally via index.htm

 

Here's a screenshot showing where to get to the trusted location settings.
You can either add a folder path or just a drive letter but the latter in
theory has more risk.

 



 

Viewing an LO via a web server url including localhost shouldn't be affected
by the trusted location setting so if that's not working either then it's a
separate issue.

 

Let us know if the above fixes the issue

HTH

Ron

 

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From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Cowell, Elizabeth
Sent: 20 December 2012 16:02
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: [Xerte] Re: resize problem with XOT 1.8 stops it working

 

Hi Ron,

 

Further to that, I have tested out running content from our student
machines, and they also don't resize when running windows 7 and internet
explorer, but do work with windows 7 and firefox, so not sure if its to do
with the flashplayer/browser interaction? 

 

(I am also wondering whether I should be looking at Xenith as an alternative
but haven't kept abreast of how far it is as yet...)

 

Best regards

 

Liz

 

Liz Cowell

Learning and Skills Librarian

Learning & Information Services

University of Wolverhampton

Tel: 01902 322385

Email:  <mailto:E.Cowell at wlv.ac.uk> E.Cowell at wlv.ac.uk

 

 

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mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Cowell, Elizabeth

Sent: 20 December 2012 13:10

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Subject: [Xerte] Re: resize problem with XOT 1.8 stops it working

 

Hi Ron,

 

Well I'm really puzzled.  When I looked at the flash player security options
they seemed to be for developers testing content based locally accessing
external sites (or vice versa). The code I am testing is hosted on our
website, not locally. It seems as if the DoFScommand isn't being called when
the flash object resizes, but tbh I am reaching the limit of my
knowledge/time to look at this area.

 

So  if you can offer any advice or a fix it would be really appreciated, as
I am just trying to get a body of content authored to get our team on board
using Xerte. If they become aware that it might not  run on every  student
laptop, they will may not want to go with it.

 

And it works fine from my PC at work, but not on my laptop.

 

There seem to be no appropriate flash settings to alter??, as I say my main
concern is that if it doesn't work for me on a laptop, how would our
students access the content we offer from their laptops. 

 

 

Thanks if you can help

 

Liz

 

Liz Cowell

Learning and Skills Librarian

Learning & Information Services

University of Wolverhampton

Tel: 01902 322385

Email:  <mailto:E.Cowell at wlv.ac.uk> E.Cowell at wlv.ac.uk

 

 

-----Original Message-----

From:  <mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>
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 Ron Mitchell

Sent: 20 December 2012 06:55

To: Xerte discussion list

Subject: [Xerte] Re: resize problem with XOT 1.8 stops it working

 

This is almost certainly Flash player security I can't check right now but
you need to add the path to your LO or drive as a trusted location.

Right click in the middle of the LO and select something like settings
advanced trusted locations

 

HTH

Ron

 

Sent from my iPad

 

On 20 Dec 2012, at 00:16, "Cowell, Elizabeth" < <mailto:E.Cowell at wlv.ac.uk>
E.Cowell at wlv.ac.uk> wrote:

 

> hello there,

> 

> I've found out that when I export content from XOT as html and load it in
a browser it fails to resize the window properly when you select a new
screen size. this seems to result in a truncation of the flash object as it
is then contained in a div too small to display it and so you can't access
the menu bars and it is unusable / unplayable. 

> 

> ie the HTML for the div containing the flash object after the flash object
resize still has the dimensions set to 600 by 800 even tho the flash object
is larger. at least that's what it seems to be at a quick glance. 

> 

> strangely if you host the same exported code on a local host xampp server
and do the resize the javascript does then change the div size correctly.
so when testing everything works ok until exported to a host on a real
server. no idea what's going on but is there a fix for this? 

> 

> I looked back at some older content I did with xerte and it has the same
problem. 

> 

> 

> thanks if you can assist

> 

> regards

> 

> Liz Cowell

> skills development team

> university of Wolverhampton

> 

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