[Xerte] Re: Customizing the design of LO's

Kemp Johnathan johnathan.kemp at ntlworld.com
Mon Feb 11 13:24:17 GMT 2013


A month in Florida, courtesy of a friend - once in a lifetime type of thing.

Now its back to snow, jet lag and a stuffed email box.

Kind regards

Johnathan

On 11 February 2013 13:15, Julian Tenney <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk>wrote:

> Welcome back Johnathan! I was wondering where you’d got to!
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> *From:* xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:
> xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of *Kemp Johnathan
> *Sent:* 11 February 2013 12:20
> *To:* Xerte discussion list
> *Subject:* [Xerte] Re: Customizing the design of LO's
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> Sorry for the late reply, I am only recently back from holiday and am
> catching up with my emails.
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> If you install Xerte and create a pages type project by doing
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> Pages / Create New Page Project
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> You can then inspect the following script pages in the learning object
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> capture display values
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> This is a child of the Learning Object. It simply collects the display
> values from the projects xwd form and allocates them to variables. The
> variable names should make it fairly clear what properties of the layout
> they apply to.
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> Do Advanced Display
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> To find this script expand the project tree as follows
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> Learning Object / Interface / background / narrationHandlers /
> onLoadStyles / Do Advanced Display
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> This script takes the variables set up in the previous script and applies
> them to the rootIcon thus modifying the projects display.
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> Hope this helps
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> Kind regards
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> Johnathan
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> On 29 January 2013 20:21, Dave Burnett <d_b_burnett at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> Desktop or Online Toolkits?
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> Try
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> inspect(rootIcon);
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> and see what you get.
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> > Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 19:15:48 +0100
> > From: ipeto77 at gmail.com
> > To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> > Subject: [Xerte] Customizing the design of LO's
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> > Hello again,
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> > I've started to re-design the appearance of LO's according to this
> > superb description:
> > http://jgdu.blogspot.hu/2011/11/xot-como-cambiar-su-apariencia.html
> > Is there anywhere a reference of properties available in a LO? For
> > example the scrollbar inherits its colours from the header and looks
> > really weird in my case. So it'd be great to know how to address these
> > elements in Xerte.
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> > Regards,
> > Istvan
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