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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Do you watch the subversion rss feeds?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="http://code.google.com/feeds/p/xerte/updates/basic">http://code.google.com/feeds/p/xerte/updates/basic</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>That’s probably the best way of being kept in the loop of changes. I try and comment them. If there is no comment it’s usually a smaller bug fix rather than a change. If you keep your svn synched up you’ll see the files that have changed on each update. If it looks like something you ought to be aware of, and can’t see what’s changed then send me a mail.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Kemp Johnathan<br><b>Sent:</b> 21 April 2011 11:32<br><b>To:</b> Xerte discussion list<br><b>Subject:</b> [Xerte] Re: . Xerte 2.n - Page Wizards (April 2011 release)<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>Hello Deborah,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>Thanks for the idea of adding the optional automatic narration parameter, I will aim to add it to all the page wizards that use narration in the next release.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>I remember some discussion on the mail list that suggested that there may be some changes to the code that is used to implement narration, but as yet the current version of Xerte still uses the same code. Hence I have made no changes to narrationHandler.rlm. Should there be any changes to how the PageTemplates project wide template delivers narration in a future release then there may be an update to narrationHandler.rlm.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>New Page Wizards cannot update existing pages in Xerte projects, as a Page Wizard is only used as a source of information by Xerte from which to create a new page, so existing pages are unaffected by an update to the Page Wizards.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>The changes to a Page Wizard that provide support for optional automatic narration are all within the code of the page wizard (an extra line in the xwd file to implement the optional parameter and a small change to the getPageId code block that adds an extra "if" condition to the section that implements narration) so no change to the narrationHandler is required.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><strong>Adding auto Narration to any existing page that offers narration</strong><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>If you wanted to add auto Narration to an existing page in one of your projects then this would be a simple 2 step process<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>Step 1 - add the optional parameter "narPlayback" to the xwd file. Simply open the xwd file in your favourite editor (not a word processor) - I use FlashDevelop and insert the line below, after the narration optional parameter, then save your change.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='color:#3366FF'><narPlayback type="ComboBox" label="Narration Playback" options="On user request,On page load" data="userRequest,pageLoad" defaultValue="On user request" width="150" optional="true"/></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>Step 2 - add an additional "if" block to the narration code in getPageId. Do this in Xerte by expanding the page structure and selecting the getPageId script icon.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>// Old page version - no auto narration option<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>if (pageIcon.templateData.learningObject[0].modelAnswer[0].narration != undefined){<br>narration = pageIcon.templateData.learningObject[0].modelAnswer[0].narration;<br>rootIcon.broadcast('showAudio');<br>}<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>// sample version from new version of gapFill Page Wizard<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>if (pageIcon.templateData.learningObject[0].gapFill[0].narration != undefined){<br>narration = pageIcon.templateData.learningObject[0].gapFill[0].narration;<br>rootIcon.broadcast('showAudio');<br><br><span style='color:#3366FF'> if (pageIcon.templateData.learningObject[0].gapFill[0].narPlayback != undefined && pageIcon.templateData.learningObject[0].gapFill[0].narPlayback == "pageLoad"){<br> nar.play();<br> }</span><br><br>}<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>The bit shown in blue above could be added to any page wizard that offers narration, you would just need to edit the references to the page wizard name to match the current page wizard, e.g. for modelAnswer code shown earlier would become<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>if (pageIcon.templateData.learningObject[0].modelAnswer[0].narration != undefined){<br>narration = pageIcon.templateData.learningObject[0].modelAnswer[0].narration;<br>rootIcon.broadcast('showAudio');<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='color:#3366FF'> if (pageIcon.templateData.learningObject[0].</span> modelAnswer <span style='color:#3366FF'>[0].narPlayback != undefined && pageIcon.templateData.learningObject[0].</span> modelAnswer <span style='color:#3366FF'>[0].narPlayback == "pageLoad"){<br> nar.play();<br> }</span> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><br>}<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>That should give your page auto narration option capability. Note the first two lines shown above are actually all one long line.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><strong>Updating an existing page to use the new version of a Page Wizard</strong><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>If you wanted to update a learning object to take advantage of new features in a Page wizard then you could try the following.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>Given an existing page called currentPage with its files saved in folder pages / currentPage<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>1 . Create a new page using the new version of the Page Wizard saving its files to pages / newPage<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>this would give you a folder pages / newPage containing the Page Wizard's .xml, .xwd and .rlm files<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>2. Rename the .xml file to something like orig.xml<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>3. Copy the .xml file from pages / currentPage to pages / newPage<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>This should give you a new copy of your original page that uses the new code for the page, has the new xwd file but benefits from all the settings of your original page.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>But a word of warning. This should work in most instances of new page wizards, one thing could cause a problem.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>If the new Version of the page wizard includes any new parameters that are NOT optional. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>If the new version of the Page Wizard includes a non-optional parameter that did not exist in the previous version then the wizard may malfunction. To resolve the malfunction look in the original xml file (renamed to orig.xml above and identify the missing parameters. These will need to be copied into the active xml file i.e the copy from your original page.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>Whether it is worth updating a page will probably depend on the changes that the new wizard introduces.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>Hope this helps to answer your questions.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>Kind regards<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>Johnathan<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>PS. Don't worry about asking silly questions - just ask for clarification if my answers are not adequate to meet your needs.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>On 20 April 2011 11:20, Deborah Delin <<a href="mailto:admin@strivney.com">admin@strivney.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#000066'>Hi Jonathan,</span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#000066'>Thanks very much for the new Page Wizards release. Great to have an optional parameter to specify automatic narration!</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#000066'>Sorry if this is a silly question: I have downloaded the new release and replaced the files in my Xerte folder, but, in order for existing learning objects to be affected by the changes in the new release, do I have to re-create the learning objects from scratch? The release didn't contain a new narration handler - wouldn't I need to add an updated narration handler to the rlo? </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#000066'>Thanks in advance for your reply. <br clear=all></span><br>-- <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333399'>Deborah <br> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='margin-left:36.0pt'>This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please send it back to me, and immediately delete it. 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