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<br>Julian, so do you see a bifurcation in the development tracks, or will dev on < 3.0 become community based?<br><br>Cheers,<br>Dave<br><br><br><hr id="stopSpelling">Subject: RE: [Xerte] Actionscript 3 version of Xerte and backwardcompatiblitywith current versions<br>Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 10:00:11 +0100<br>From: Julian.Tenney@nottingham.ac.uk<br>To: xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk<br><br>
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<p class="EC_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Almost certainly there won’t be backwards compatibility
with .rlo files – things are just too different.</span></p>
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<p class="EC_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Definitely there will be compatibility with toolkits data, which
is just data after all.</span></p>
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<p class="EC_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Things are still very embryonic. You can check out the samples
in the .svn, and can install a fledgling Xerte 3. There are still some quite
fundamental decisions to make on how best to take this forward, but having said
that you can already see how much more powerful it is.</span></p>
<p class="EC_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></p>
<p class="EC_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Download it here: <a href="http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/xerte/downloads/X3AlphaSetup.exe">http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/xerte/downloads/X3AlphaSetup.exe</a>.
This is not for any production work – just a preview of some work in progress.</span></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>Patrick
Lockley<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, August 06, 2009 3:16 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Xerte discussion list<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: [Xerte] Actionscript 3 version of Xerte and
backwardcompatiblitywith current versions</span></p>
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<p class="EC_MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; color: blue;">Hello,</span></p>
<p class="EC_MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; color: blue;"> </span></p>
<p class="EC_MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; color: blue;">Anyone with access to the SVN
has been able to see the beginnings of an actionscript 3 version of Xerte for
about a month or so. It’s also been listed on the wiki page for a while
as well.</span></p>
<p class="EC_MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; color: blue;"> </span></p>
<p class="EC_MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; color: blue;">Toolkits is modularised and as
such could happily run many different editors and players as part of the same
system (we’ve been playing with a HTML play version over the last few
days), but because Xerte 3 is in it’s very early days for its development,
I can’t really give any specifics as to what it will and won’t be
able to do. </span></p>
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<p class="EC_MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; color: blue;">It’s worth noting that I
am not working on Xerte 3 directly, as I don’t know any flex, and the
answer above is mostly guess work as Julian’s not here.</span></p>
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<p class="EC_MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; color: blue;">If there are features you would
like then please have a think about it and let us know, or maybe even start a
page on the wiki.</span></p>
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<p class="EC_MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; color: blue;">Pat</span></p>
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<p class="EC_MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 72pt;"><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>Johnathan
Kemp<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 06 August 2009 14:25<br>
<b>To:</b> Xerte discussion list<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Xerte] Actionscript 3 version of Xerte and backward
compatiblitywith current versions</span></p>
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<p class="EC_MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 72pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: blue;">Hello Xerte Team,</span></p>
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<p class="EC_MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 72pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: blue;">In my explorations through the
archives I came across something Julian posted on 22nd July 2008 regarding a
Xerte 2.0 type application that would use actionscript 3.0. </span></p>
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<p class="EC_MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 72pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: blue;">In this posting Julian writes</span></p>
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<p class="EC_MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 72pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: blue;">><i> It would lead to a Xerte
2.0 type application that would actually<br>
</i>><i> compile swfs and use AS3.0. It would use the flex framework rather
than<br>
</i>><i> it's own engine, and so the differences between that and the
current<br>
</i>><i> Xerte would be significant - it would be hard to recreate the
flowline<br>
</i>><i> metaphor for example. A lot of work to do though, so view it as
work in<br>
</i>><em><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> progress.</span></em></span><em></em></p>
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<p class="EC_MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 72pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: blue;">If I recall correctly Pat has
mentioned in recent postings working on an Actionscript 3.0 version of Xerte.</span></p>
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<p class="EC_MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 72pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: blue;">I was wondering how backward
compatible this would be with the current versions of Xerte / Templates /
Toolkits, bearing in mind Julian's comments from 2008.</span></p>
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