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That works a treat.<br><br>Now of course since I'm going RTF>HTM>Xerte there's the beggar font size translations to deal with. :-/<br><br>Dave<br><br><br><br><hr id="stopSpelling">Subject: RE: [Xerte] Noob question<br>Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 09:03:02 +0000<br>From: Julian.Tenney@nottingham.ac.uk<br>To: xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk<br><br>
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<p class="EC_MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black;">I just updated it and fixed a
different bug with loadVars anyway, so you might as well have it:</span></p>
<p class="EC_MsoNormal" style=""><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="EC_MsoNormal" style=""><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black;">Usage</span></b></p>
<p class="EC_MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black;">iconID.readFile(url);</span></p>
<p class="EC_MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black;"> </span></p>
<p class="EC_MsoNormal" style=""><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black;">Parameters</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black;"></span></p>
<p class="EC_MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black;">url. The url of the file to read.</span></p>
<p class="EC_MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black;"> </span></p>
<p class="EC_MsoNormal" style=""><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black;">Description</span></b></p>
<p class="EC_MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black;">Reads in an external file. Fires
the 'onReadFile' event when complete, and sets iconID.fileData with the
contents of the file.</span></p>
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<p class="EC_MsoNormal" style=""><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black;">Returns</span></b></p>
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<p class="EC_MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';" lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';" lang="EN-US">
xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Dave Burnett<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, January 29, 2009 10:12 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Xerte list<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: [Xerte] Noob question</span></p>
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<p class="EC_MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Thanks
Julian.<br>
<br>
I was mushing around the 2.1 help files and was sure I could get it to work in
a round-about way.<br>
<br>
Let me mull around a bit before I ask for a re-compile.<br>
I'll save that for the real nasty stuff.<br>
:-)<br>
<br>
Dave <br>
<br>
<br>
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<p class="EC_MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Subject:
RE: [Xerte] Noob question<br>
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 21:44:19 +0000<br>
From: Julian.Tenney@nottingham.ac.uk<br>
To: xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk<br>
CC: Julian.Tenney@nottingham.ac.uk</span></p>
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<p class="EC_MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black;">there is an onData event I can
trap for you on loadVars. You can point to a url, I can get an icon to load it
via loadVars, intercept the onData event, and pass it back to your code in an
event handler iconID.onData. I can set iconIdD.rawData or similar and then
when you handle iconID.onData you can have a text icon {iconID.rawData}.</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';"></span></p>
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<p class="EC_MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The onData event fires before onLoad, and
lets you access the raw text in the file you loaded. Same with the XML class.
Basically it's readExtFile(). I'm not sure if there is support for it right now
in Xerte, but it is five minutes to add it.</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';"></span></p>
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<p class="EC_MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Remember the supported HTML is a bit limited,
thanks to the Flash player. Stylesheets might be useful.</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';"></span></p>
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<p class="EC_MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 36pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">
xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk on behalf of Dave Burnett<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thu 29/01/2009 21:35<br>
<b>To:</b> Xerte list<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: [Xerte] Noob question</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';"></span></p>
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<p class="EC_MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Yes.</span></p>
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<p class="EC_MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Subject:
RE: [Xerte] Noob question<br>
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 21:26:56 +0000<br>
From: Julian.Tenney@nottingham.ac.uk<br>
To: xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</span></p>
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<p class="EC_MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black;">what do you want to do with them?
Load them and display them?</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';"></span></p>
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<p class="EC_MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 36pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">
xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk on behalf of Dave Burnett<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thu 29/01/2009 19:39<br>
<b>To:</b> Xerte list<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: [Xerte] Noob question</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';"></span></p>
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<p class="EC_MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Thanks
Julian.<br>
I just stumbled across it by accidentally adding a URL param in the source.<br>
<br>
So what's the accepted method for handling external text files in .htm format?<br>
<br>
Now you see why I got curious.<br>
AW had hidden unsupported methods, right? ;-)<br>
<br>
Dave<br>
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<p class="EC_MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Subject:
RE: [Xerte] Noob question<br>
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 19:17:57 +0000<br>
From: Julian.Tenney@nottingham.ac.uk<br>
To: xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</span></p>
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<p class="EC_MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black;">It isn't.</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';"></span></p>
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<p class="EC_MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">BUT</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';"></span></p>
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<p class="EC_MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Under the hood, Xerte uses the same class to
display graphic icons and text icons, so the <DIS> nodes can have url
properties, but they refer to the URL for an image for the graphic icon.
There's some code that goes </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';"></span></p>
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<p class="EC_MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> //add a graphic icon to the stage</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';"></span></p>
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<p class="EC_MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">} else if (node.attributes.type == 'text'){</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';"></span></p>
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<p class="EC_MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> ///add a text icon</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';"></span></p>
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<p class="EC_MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">If I were to rebuild it, there would be two
classes. In fact there'd probbly be three, with one seperate one for swfs.</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';"></span></p>
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<p class="EC_MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 36pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">
xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk on behalf of Dave Burnett<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thu 29/01/2009 17:02<br>
<b>To:</b> Xerte list<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Xerte] Noob question</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';"></span></p>
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<p class="EC_MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">What's
the URL parameter in the Text icon used for?<br>
<br>
<br>
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