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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>If you want the actual movieclips to have particular properties,
you can use the initObject property – it uses a shorthand object like this: {name:
”jules”, age:”21”, likes: “banjos”}<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Then the movieclip will have properties .name, .age, and .likes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Rather than use myIconID.XMLElement.attributes.propertyName,
which is a real mouthful, use myIconID.getProperty(‘propName’); to return the
values from the attributes of the XLElement.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>XMLElement was intended as an internal property only.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>HTH,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>J<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><b><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
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xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Elly Langewis<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 02 October 2008 12:08<br>
<b>To:</b> Xerte discussion list<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Xerte] icon property<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>Thanks! That helps. XMLElement
will be valuable to me the way I am trying to organize my course (of course
I've been programming exclusively in Authorware for much too long).<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 12:50 PM,
Julian Tenney <<a href="mailto:Julian.Tenney@nottingham.ac.uk">Julian.Tenney@nottingham.ac.uk</a>>
wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>When
you set the property of an icon using the editor, what you are doing is setting
the value of an attribute in the underlying XML file, like this:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'><DIS
name="The Name For My Icon" id="myGraphic"
x="etc"…./></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>That
xml node is used to initiate a MovieClip at runtime. That movieclip can be
addressed using the id defined in the xml (if it was defined – otherwise it
gets a computer generated name);</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>The values
of the attributes in the XML are not necessarily translated into properties of
the resulting movieclip. As you have found, name will return undefined.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Each
icon is a movieclip. Each Icon movieclip has a property called XMLELement. This
is the XML node that was used to initiate the icon.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>So <a
href="http://myicon.xmlelement.attributes.name/" target="_blank">myIcon.XMLElement.attributes.name</a>
will contain the value you entered in the editor.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Hope
that helps understand what's going on.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>J</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style='margin-left:72.0pt'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>From:</span></b><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'> <a
href="mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank">xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a>
[mailto:<a href="mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank">xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Elly Langewis<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 02 October 2008 11:09<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:Xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank">Xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Xerte] icon property</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style='margin-left:72.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style='margin-left:72.0pt'>Hi Julian,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style='margin-left:72.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style='margin-left:72.0pt'>In the Help file it says:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style='margin-left:72.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style='margin-left:72.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>For an icon with
an id of 'myIcon', you can address properties and methods using the following
code:</span> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style='margin-left:72.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:72.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>myIcon.property =
value;</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style='margin-left:72.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>myIcon.methodName();</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style='margin-left:72.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style='margin-left:72.0pt'>But myIcon.name does return 'undefined' (for a
page).<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style='margin-left:72.0pt'>I get the value of the property 'name' back with
myIcon.title...so my problem is solved, but I do not see why.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style='margin-left:72.0pt'>Even if I add the property 'title' to the page
myIcon.name stays 'undefined', so it is not a mix-up.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style='margin-left:72.0pt'>Elly<o:p></o:p></p>
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-- <br>
Elly Langewis<br>
courseware developer<br>
Department of Biology<br>
Utrecht University<o:p></o:p></p>
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