<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Very funny Ron :-)</span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>Thanks a lot for your help.</span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>José</span></div><div> </div><div>--<br>Lic. José Gregorio Díaz Unda.<br>Asesor de Tecnologías de Información y Comunicación.<br>Tel.: 58.0412.5518085<br>Skype: xt4mhz<br>Web: www.usb.ve - jgdu.blogspot.com<br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">De:</span></b> Ron Mitchell <ronm@mitchellmedia.co.uk><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Para:</span></b> 'Xerte discussion list' <xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk><br><b><span style="font-weight:
bold;">Enviado:</span></b> Jueves, 17 de noviembre, 2011 10:44:01<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Asunto:</span></b> [Xerte] Re: Customizing XOT Projects<br></font><br><div id="yiv275320633">
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--></style><div><div class="yiv275320633WordSection1"><div class="yiv275320633MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">:-) Couldn't resist...</span></div><div class="yiv275320633MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></div><div class="yiv275320633MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">http://space.lcm.ac.uk/xerte/play_123</span></div><div class="yiv275320633MsoNormal"><a rel="nofollow" name="_MailEndCompose"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></a></div><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm;"><div class="yiv275320633MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";" lang="EN-US"> xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Dave Burnett<br><b>Sent:</b> 17 November 2011 14:27<br><b>To:</b> Xerte list<br><b>Subject:</b> [Xerte] Re: Customizing XOT Projects</span></div></div></div><div class="yiv275320633MsoNormal"> </div><div><div><div class="yiv275320633MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";"> </span></div></div><div><div class="yiv275320633MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";">Tom, excellent stuff!</span></div></div><div><div class="yiv275320633MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";"> </span></div></div><div><div class="yiv275320633MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";">Gents, I'd stay away from editing the engine
.fla.</span></div></div><div><div class="yiv275320633MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";">That way lies dragons...</span></div></div><div><div class="yiv275320633MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";"> </span></div></div><div><div class="yiv275320633MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";">Dave</span></div></div><div class="yiv275320633MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";"> </span></div><div><div class="yiv275320633MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;" align="center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";"><hr id="yiv275320633stopSpelling" align="center" size="3" width="100%"></span></div><div class="yiv275320633MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";">Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 15:15:09 +0100<br>From: <a rel="nofollow"
ymailto="mailto:reijnders@tor.nl" target="_blank" href="mailto:reijnders@tor.nl">reijnders@tor.nl</a><br>To: <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank" href="mailto:xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk">xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a><br>Subject: [Xerte] Re: Customizing XOT Projects<br><br>Hmmm... XOT. <br><br>A bit more difficult, but the good news is, that all the things you mentioned can be done without changing XMLEngine.fla<br><br>Depends a bit how you want to do it. I'll explain how to CHANGE an existing template. The easiest is the Nottingham Page Templates, because there is an equivalent in the standalone Xerte.<br><br>- Get Xerte standalone and install it on your PC<br>- Start Xerte, and start a new Page Templates project:<br><img id="yiv275320633_x0000_i1026" src="cid:1.1657567098@web161205.mail.bf1.yahoo.com" border="0" height="189" width="349"><br>- Choose a new directory and open the new project<br><img
id="yiv275320633_x0000_i1027" src="cid:2.1657567098@web161205.mail.bf1.yahoo.com" border="0" height="319" width="408"><br><br>- Press play to say the current layout<br><img id="yiv275320633_x0000_i1028" src="cid:3.1657567098@web161205.mail.bf1.yahoo.com" border="0" height="319" width="408"><br><br>- Leave Xerte<br>- Retrieve from your XOT installation the file in <webroot>/modules/xerte/parent_templates/Nottingham/Nottingham.rlt<br>- Copy it OVER the template.rlt file of the just created Xerte project<br>- Open Xerte standalone again (by double-clicking template.rlt) in the folder<br><img id="yiv275320633_x0000_i1029" src="cid:2.1657567098@web161205.mail.bf1.yahoo.com" border="0" height="319" width="408"><br><br>- Quit the Wizard (by clicking the X)<br><img id="yiv275320633_x0000_i1030" src="cid:4.1657567098@web161205.mail.bf1.yahoo.com" border="0" height="328" width="450"><br><br>- First.... colours...:<br>You can change the colours by setting
optional properties such as titleBarColour <br><img id="yiv275320633_x0000_i1031" src="cid:5.1657567098@web161205.mail.bf1.yahoo.com" border="0" height="379" width="498"><br><br>- You can check what you did by double clicking the First Icon<br><img id="yiv275320633_x0000_i1032" src="cid:6.1657567098@web161205.mail.bf1.yahoo.com" border="0" height="110" width="168"><br>- and than press Play<br><img id="yiv275320633_x0000_i1033" src="cid:7.1657567098@web161205.mail.bf1.yahoo.com" border="0" height="319" width="408"><br><br>- Now for the logo and the position of the buttons etc...<br>- Leave the Wizard and click on the tree structure and select the setup icon<br><img id="yiv275320633_x0000_i1034" src="cid:8.1657567098@web161205.mail.bf1.yahoo.com" border="0" height="236" width="215"><br>- Click on Script<br><img id="yiv275320633_x0000_i1035" src="cid:9.1657567098@web161205.mail.bf1.yahoo.com" border="0" height="135" width="198"><br><br><img
id="yiv275320633_x0000_i1036" src="cid:10.1657567098@web161205.mail.bf1.yahoo.com" border="0" height="379" width="498"><br><br>- In this script you can move the buttons around and switch on and off the list boxes and load a new default logo or banner<br>You do this right below the first if statement (or if the template is older, below the loadIcon line)<br><img id="yiv275320633_x0000_i1037" src="cid:11.1657567098@web161205.mail.bf1.yahoo.com" border="0" height="379" width="498"><br>rootIcon.loadIcon(FileLocation + 'media/banner_sheet_transparant_cr.png');<br>_level0.engine.IFC.themes._visible = false;<br>_level0.engine.IFC.fonts._visible = false;<br>_level0.engine.IFC.access._visible = false;<br>_level0.engine.IFC.sizes._x = 10;<br>_level0.engine.IFC.txtSize._x = 120;<br><br>Also a bit further down in this script all buttons are disabled by <br>rootIcon.hideControls(); <br>and several are enabled again on a different position.<br><br>rootIcon.tocBtn._y
= 550;<br>rootIcon.nextBtn._y = 550;<br>rootIcon.backBtn._y = 550;<br>rootIcon.progress._y = 550;<br>rootIcon.contButton._visible = false;<br><br><img id="yiv275320633_x0000_i1038" src="cid:12.1657567098@web161205.mail.bf1.yahoo.com" border="0" height="379" width="498"><br><br>- We added a banner (any logo wider than 200 pixels is placed in the upper left corner like a banner), so if you create a semi transparent png of 800x68, you can get some interesting effects!<br>- Make sure you have the file mentioned in the loadIcon in the media folder!!<br><br>- Check the results by double clicking the top left icon and pressing play to preview<br><br><img id="yiv275320633_x0000_i1039" src="cid:13.1657567098@web161205.mail.bf1.yahoo.com" border="0" height="319" width="408"><br><br>- Now save and leave Xerte.<br><br>It is VERY important NOT to add ANY pages, because these will end in the template!!!<br><br>Than:<br>- copy template.rlt back over
<webroot>/modules/xerte/parent_templates/Nottingham/Nottingham.rlt<br>- copy any media file into <webroot>/modules/xerte/parent/Nottingham/media<br><br><br>That should do the trick!<br><br>Regards,<br><br>Tom<br><br>Op 17-11-2011 12:37, Davidson, Andrew schreef: </span></div><pre>Hi Jose - did you get anywhere with how to change the 'skin'? This is where I need to go and so any hints would be welcome.</pre><pre> </pre><pre>Best</pre><pre> </pre><pre>Andy</pre><pre> </pre><pre> </pre><pre> </pre><pre> </pre><pre> </pre><pre>-----Original Message-----</pre><pre>From: <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank" href="mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk">xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a> [<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank"
href="mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk">mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a>] On Behalf Of Jose Diaz</pre><pre>Sent: 17 November 2011 01:36</pre><pre>To: XERTE XERTE</pre><pre>Subject: [Xerte] Customizing XOT Projects</pre><pre> </pre><pre>Hi everyone and thanks in advance.</pre><pre> </pre><pre> </pre><pre>We're trying to customize "the look" of scorm packages built from XOT.</pre><pre> </pre><pre>We want to change how learning objects are shown: change logo, move buttons (forward, backward, etc.) to the bottom of the screen, hide all dropdown lists at the bottom of the screen, etc.</pre><pre> </pre><pre>We're take a look to "XMLEngine.fla" file, but we're not sure if we're in the right path. When we open the "XMLEngine.fla" with Adobe Flash, it shows a grayed rectangle with a lot of code. We just want to "drag and drop" elements of the screen to new positions.</pre><pre> </pre><pre>
</pre><pre>Attached to this message, we send an image of an example how much we want to change the "skin" of the learning objects.</pre><pre> </pre><pre> </pre><pre>Any "step-by-step" guide to change this "look"?</pre><pre> </pre><pre>After changing the "look", we want to translate to spanish the XOT ... but this is another history.</pre><pre> </pre><pre>Thanks a lot again.</pre><pre> </pre><pre>José.</pre><pre> </pre><pre>--</pre><pre>Lic. José Gregorio Díaz Unda.</pre><pre>Asesor de Tecnologías de Información y Comunicación.</pre><pre>Tel.: 58.0412.5518085</pre><pre>Skype: xt4mhz</pre><pre>Web: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.usb.ve">www.usb.ve</a> - jgdu.blogspot.comThis 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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