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<DIV>I have got some movies from Sony DVD camcorder. They are in MPEG format. Flash does not seem to import them. Is there any way of opening them in Xerte?</DIV>
<DIV>Regards</DIV>
<DIV>Ashok Ranade<BR><BR>--- On <B>Wed, 14/1/09, Julian Tenney <I><Julian.Tenney@nottingham.ac.uk></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid">From: Julian Tenney <Julian.Tenney@nottingham.ac.uk><BR>Subject: RE: [Xerte] How to address contents in the rootIcon<BR>To: "Xerte discussion list" <xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk><BR>Date: Wednesday, 14 January, 2009, 6:05 PM<BR><BR>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri', 'sans-serif'">Here are some good examples of Xerte content, both custom content and the default interface.</SPAN></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri', 'sans-serif'"> </SPAN></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri', 'sans-serif'"><A href="http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/toolkits/play_560" target=_blank rel=nofollow>http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/toolkits/play_560</A></SPAN></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri', 'sans-serif'">Shows all of the page types you can create with the pageTemplates Xerte template. If your technical skills are low, or you don’t write any code, this is a good example of the sort of content you can quite easily create.</SPAN></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri', 'sans-serif'"> </SPAN></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri', 'sans-serif'">Here is an example of real-life content created with toolkits by non-technical people</SPAN></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri', 'sans-serif'"><A href="http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/toolkits/play_264" target=_blank rel=nofollow>http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/toolkits/play_264</A></SPAN></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri', 'sans-serif'"> </SPAN></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri', 'sans-serif'">This is a good example of a toolkits project, extended with cutom flash movies to add in additional functionality not available in the template directly</SPAN></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri', 'sans-serif'"><A href="http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/toolkits/play_508" target=_blank rel=nofollow>http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/toolkits/play_508</A></SPAN></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri', 'sans-serif'"> </SPAN></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri', 'sans-serif'">This example uses the default interface, but custmises it a little bit:</SPAN></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri', 'sans-serif'"><A href="http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/toolkits/play_159" target=_blank rel=nofollow>http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/toolkits/play_159</A></SPAN></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri', 'sans-serif'"> </SPAN></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri', 'sans-serif'">This is template that uses a custom interface</SPAN></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri', 'sans-serif'"><A href="http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/toolkits/play_244" target=_blank rel=nofollow>http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/toolkits/play_244</A></SPAN></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri', 'sans-serif'"> </SPAN></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri', 'sans-serif'">This is a project using a custom swf to control it:</SPAN></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri', 'sans-serif'">These are completely custom projects, from the ground up, that show quite well what Xerte is capable of:</SPAN></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri', 'sans-serif'"><A href="http://equella.nottingham.ac.uk/uon/items/7574a3e9-af2b-c959-7dc4-39b717fa50d8/1/ViewIMS.jsp" target=_blank rel=nofollow>http://equella.nottingham.ac.uk/uon/items/7574a3e9-af2b-c959-7dc4-39b717fa50d8/1/ViewIMS.jsp</A></SPAN></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri', 'sans-serif'"><A href="http://equella.nottingham.ac.uk/uon/items/0abf92ff-54cf-1cc2-aaff-cebf2fa073c0/1/ViewIMS.jsp" target=_blank rel=nofollow>http://equella.nottingham.ac.uk/uon/items/0abf92ff-54cf-1cc2-aaff-cebf2fa073c0/1/ViewIMS.jsp</A></SPAN></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri', 'sans-serif'"><A href="http://equella.nottingham.ac.uk/uon/items/e04e898f-45d0-98bc-04c2-437a7860bd89/1/ViewIMS.jsp" target=_blank rel=nofollow>http://equella.nottingham.ac.uk/uon/items/e04e898f-45d0-98bc-04c2-437a7860bd89/1/ViewIMS.jsp</A></SPAN></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri', 'sans-serif'">Hope that helps,</SPAN></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma', 'sans-serif'">From:</SPAN></B><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma', 'sans-serif'"> xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Julian Tenney<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, January 14, 2009 11:53 AM<BR><B>To:</B> Xerte discussion list<BR><B>Subject:</B> RE: [Xerte] How to address contents in the rootIcon</SPAN></DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri', 'sans-serif'">The property is .controller – that’s the loaded swf. You need to make sure that it’s loaded before you can address it’s properties,</SPAN></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 72pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma', 'sans-serif'">From:</SPAN></B><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma', 'sans-serif'"> xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Peter Huppertz<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, January 14, 2009 11:30 AM<BR><B>To:</B> xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Xerte] How to address contents in the rootIcon</SPAN></DIV></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 72pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'">Hi List,</SPAN> <BR><BR><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'">I'm quite new to Xerte and try to create my first project using a custom made interface. The layout of the interface uses two different boxed to organize the content. Each box is a movieclip on the main timeline of the interface.swf file. I want to change the width of these boxes using scripts in Xerte. So I tried rootIcon.box1._width = 400 and rootIcon.clip.box1._width = 400 and even rootIcon.swf.box1._width = 400 - no luck. I couldn't find a hint in the Xerte help ... can you help me?</SPAN> <BR><BR><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'">By the way: are there any complex learning objects out there that use custom made interfaces, combinations of built in functionalities and externally loaded flash files, etc. to learn
from?</SPAN> <BR><BR><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'">Thanks,</SPAN> <BR><BR><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'">Peter</SPAN> <BR><BR><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'">==================================<BR>Peter Huppertz<BR>E-learning and IT Specialist<BR>International Centre for Asset Recovery<BR>Basel Institute on Governance<BR>Phone: +41 61 205 55 18<BR>Fax: +41 61 267 55 19</SPAN></DIV></DIV></DIV><PRE>_______________________________________________
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