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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk on behalf of ron@kccsoft.com<BR><B>Sent:</B> Sun 14/03/2010 18:43<BR><B>To:</B> 'Xerte discussion list'<BR><B>Subject:</B> RE: [Xerte] toolkit on a stick<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'">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’?</SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><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 [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</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">But it looks like Toolkits and Xerte 3 will be the future.</SPAN></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">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></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">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></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">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></P></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>