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color:#1F497D'>Just so I’m clear on this...can we still develop online training
in the xerte3 or is xerte3 intended as a development tool for ‘toolkits’?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
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xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Julian Tenney<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, March 13, 2010 2:03 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Xerte discussion list<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: [Xerte] toolkit on a stick<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>But it looks like Toolkits
and Xerte 3 will be the future.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Xerte 2.x isn't going
anywhere - in fact I wonder whether Xerte 3 should really be called Xerte 3 as
there isn't really an upgrade path for xerte 2 files, and it might just get
really confusing. Maybe we need a different name for it to distinquish it.
Already, too many people refer to Toolkits as Xerte. Maybe we should rebadge
that too. Thinking of names is hard.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Xerte 3 is very much a developer's
tool right now, and will be for the foreseeable future, although a Xerte 3
runtime ought to be able to easily consume toolkits data (i.e. xml made with
the wizard). The Flex 4 SDK that Xerte 3 is built on is nearly finished now,
and will be released shortly by Adobe: Flex 4 is a much richer framework that
achieves very similar things to the Xerte 2 framework. The difference is I
wrote the Xerte 2 framework, warts and all, whereas Adobe write, maintain,
upgrade the Flex 4 SDK - which offers a lot more, and saves me a ton of work.
There are many similarities, as Xerte 2 was inspired by a mix of Authorware and
Flex.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>I'd really like to get some
of you coders playing around with Xerte 3 now, and telling me what you think,
what works, what doesn't, what's hard to do that should be easy. We need to
start creating some knowledge around it, as it's quite different. There are 63
types of icon, rather than 9, which gives you a good idea of how much richer it
is. I imagine a beta lasting most of the rest of this year as you guys start to
come to the party.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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