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Thanks Julian.<br>Just didn't want to dynamically insert a debug statement where it has no business.<br><br>Dave<br><br><hr id="stopSpelling">Subject: RE: [Xerte] Script only in script icon?<br>Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 22:12:40 +0000<br>From: Julian.Tenney@nottingham.ac.uk<br>To: xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk<br><br>
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<div dir="ltr"><font size="2" color="#000000" face="Arial">No, there are no authorware-like icon ornaments, if that's what you mean. Certainly the only place you can write if else if else, for loops etc is in script icons.</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial">Many properties are evaluated, but you know that already. In those cases, they are evaluated as expressions, not whole scripts. </font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial">I did play around with an 'initScript' property a long time ago, which would have replicated the ornament thing from authorware, but decided it didn't really make sense, and tended to lead to 'where the hell's the code' nightmares.</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial">The only unusual script icon is the setup script icon that can only be added between the LO icon and the interface, and it's purpose is to manipulate the file's XML before the interface is initialised.</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial">What are you worried about?</font></div>
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<font size="2" face="Tahoma"><b>From:</b> xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk on behalf of Dave Burnett<br><b>Sent:</b> Tue 03/02/2009 18:57<br><b>To:</b> Xerte list<br><b>Subject:</b> [Xerte] Script only in script icon?<br></font><br></div>
<div><br>I've checked them all in the default state.<br>Just wondering if there's any configurations where a non-script icon takes a script.<br><br>Dave<br><br>
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