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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Cheers. The CTRL-SHIFT-F5 stuff is not ideal. I would like a better solution for Xerte 3.0 - the visual editing thing is quite a tough problem in AS2 with inheritance on the prototype - I think it will be much easier with AS3.</FONT></DIV></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk on behalf of Dave Burnett<BR><B>Sent:</B> Tue 09/02/2010 19:07<BR><B>To:</B> Xerte list<BR><B>Subject:</B> FW: [Xerte] Onscreen positioning of objects<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<P><FONT size=2>Found it.<BR><BR>Something to do with transitions.<BR>If I remove the transition from the page that target icons are attached to, no flashing behaviour.<BR><BR>That helps. I guess I can add the transitions back in before packaging.<BR><BR>Dave<BR><BR><BR>----------------------------------------<BR>> From: d_b_burnett@hotmail.com<BR>> To: xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk<BR>> Subject: FW: [Xerte] Onscreen positioning of objects<BR>> Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 13:39:15 -0500<BR>><BR>><BR>><BR>> I'm building a plain dummy file and so far this seems to happen:<BR>><BR>> Shift F5 - single execution<BR>> Control F5 - double execution<BR>> Shift+Control F5 - double execution<BR>><BR>> But in any case, it seems to flow to the right spot, stop and highlight the correct target.<BR>><BR>> On my piece, Shift F5 works as expected, but I have to move through the whole piece to get to the target.<BR>><BR>> Any combination with the Control key sends it into the flashing loop.<BR>><BR>> How do I halt the engine's reading/execution of the flow line again?<BR>> I think something being encountered further down the flow is what is causing it and I would like to isolate it, but not by rebuilding the whole thing 1 icon at a time. :-/<BR>><BR>><BR>><BR>> ----------------------------------------<BR>>> From: d_b_burnett@hotmail.com<BR>>> To: xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk<BR>>> Subject: FW: [Xerte] Onscreen positioning of objects<BR>>> Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 12:04:02 -0500<BR>>><BR>>><BR>>> More info.<BR>>> Narrowing it down to the chunk below:<BR>>>> LO<BR>>> IF<BR>>> PG<BR>>> SCR<BR>>><BR>>> SCR<BR>>><BR>>> SCR<BR>>><BR>>> SCR<BR>>><BR>>> DIS<BR>>><BR>>><BR>>><BR>>> If I run normal, the debug is thus:<BR>>><BR>>> wipe('in', 2, 'None', 'easeNone', 2);<BR>>> Executing uservars calc<BR>>> Executing mylocation_path<BR>>> Executing read_tutor_file<BR>>><BR>>> If I spec that DIS and CONT^SHFT^F5 then I get this debug:<BR>>><BR>>> wipe('in', 2, 'None', 'easeNone', 2);<BR>>> Executing uservars calc<BR>>> Executing mylocation_path<BR>>> Executing read_tutor_file<BR>>> wipe('in', 2, 'None', 'easeNone', 2);<BR>>> Executing uservars calc<BR>>> Executing mylocation_path<BR>>> Executing read_tutor_file<BR>>><BR>>><BR>>> I.e. it is running from the top twice for some reason, then it goes into some sort of flashing loop (which does not throw any debug statements).<BR>>><BR>>> Should it be executing twice when edit/jump to is called?<BR>>><BR>>><BR>>> ----------------------------------------<BR>>>> From: d_b_burnett@hotmail.com<BR>>>> To: xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk<BR>>>> Subject: RE: [Xerte] Onscreen positioning of objects<BR>>>> Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 09:40:26 -0500<BR>>>><BR>>>><BR>>>> Maybe my architecture is funky or something.<BR>>>><BR>>>> What's really bogging me down is this:<BR>>>><BR>>>> If I use CTRL-SHIFT-F5 by the description I should jump to the page selected in the tree in edit mode.<BR>>>><BR>>>> But If I try to get to a display page in PG1 or PG2 of this setup, the flow gets there, but even though the graphic never appears, the outline/dimension box is there, flashing at a very high rate. If I try to click on that, I invariably grab the background, so I'm back to square 1.<BR>>>><BR>>>> LO<BR>>> IF<BR>>> PG<BR>>> SCR<BR>>> SCR<BR>>> SCR<BR>>> SCR<BR>>> DIS<BR>>><BR>>><BR>>><BR>>><BR>>>> FW<BR>>>> PG<BR>>>> FW<BR>>>> PG1<BR>>>> PG2<BR>>>> PG3<BR>>>><BR>>>><BR>>>><BR>>>><BR>>>><BR>>>><BR>>>><BR>>>><BR>>>><BR>>>> _________________________________________________________________<BR>>>> Hotmail: Free, trusted and rich email service.<BR>>>> <A href="http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/201469228/direct/01/">http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/201469228/direct/01/</A><BR>>><BR>>> _________________________________________________________________<BR>>> Hotmail: Trusted email with Microsoft’s powerful SPAM protection.<BR>>> <A href="http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/201469226/direct/01/">http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/201469226/direct/01/</A><BR>><BR>> _________________________________________________________________<BR>> Hotmail: Trusted email with powerful SPAM protection.<BR>> <A href="http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/201469227/direct/01/">http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/201469227/direct/01/</A><BR> <BR>_________________________________________________________________<BR>Hotmail: Powerful Free email with security by Microsoft.<BR><A href="http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/201469230/direct/01/_______________________________________________">http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/201469230/direct/01/_______________________________________________</A><BR>Xerte mailing list<BR>Xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk<BR><A href="http://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/xerte">http://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/xerte</A><BR></FONT></P></DIV></BODY></HTML>