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I've recently completed four modules in Xerte and this would not have
been possible without help from this forum so thanks very much. I have
used page PageWizard's, manually added icons and a tiny bit of script
with divers content from diverse sources and the end result is terrific
so thanks to the Xerte team.<br>
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One issue that it would not go away however has been the problem of the
display mode in the interface icon. When I evaluated adding Ispring
into Xerte I came to the conclusion that if I included the ISpring
player the display mode became unstable. By unstable I mean that when a
user selects a display size different from default eg: larger - the
resultant size of the player was such that all the controls disappeared
from view and they could not recover the display without reloading the
learning object. See [Xerte] Ispring SWF - full screen issues<br>
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Because I work on multiple operating systems and in different browsers
I thought that the problem was I spring but my most recent testing with
two simple pages with one text icon tends to show that it is the xerte
player that has different behavior in different operating systems and
browser combination -irrespective of the what other content you may
add. <br>
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These issues are not related using PageWizards as my by testing was
with a simple Xerte player 2.1 and a couple of basic pages with the
following combination of both Firefox and Internet Explorer on the
following operating systems:<br>
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<blockquote>Vista<br>
Windows XP -- eee PC<br>
Windows XP -- several Tasmanian government computers with highly
controlled policy settings deployed centrally.<br>
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Windows XP consistently gives gives the worst outcomes whereas Vista
gives the best but far from perfect outcomes. My concern is here is am
I doing something fundamentally incorrect in setting up Xerte or can
others replicate this behavior. <br>
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As i work around I placed a warning not use the display mode control in
my "how to use the player" rlo - a better work around would be to
disable it through the property settings in the interface icon as the
default setting appears stable in all conditions.<br>
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Peter Snowball
Dept Of Economic Development
Tasmania</pre>
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