[Xerte-dev] Re: Xerte editor closes if you add a setup script to the Learning Object icon

Tue Feb 21 14:38:29 GMT 2012

Not sure how you get it mind.

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Kemp Johnathan
Sent: 21 February 2012 14:38
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Xerte editor closes if you add a setup script to the Learning Object icon

Sounds do-able, i'll have a go.

JK

On 21 February 2012 13:16, Julian Tenney <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk>> wrote:
Could you work on the filename, so if rlt else pageTemplates?

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>] On Behalf Of Kemp Johnathan
Sent: 21 February 2012 12:52
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Xerte editor closes if you add a setup script to the Learning Object icon

Hello Julian,

Thanks for a quick fix - all tests so far suggest this has solved the problem :-)

Now that I am working on a default .rlo file for the "page projects" I am including a template and xwd file which is resulting in there being an extXML, it also means that now the project can take the project name from the extXML file just as with pageTemplates / XOT.

So I need a new test for identifying when the model is in XOT / pageTemplate projects and when it is in a desktop project.

What I would like to do is work on the principle that in XOT / pageTemplate projects the setup script will define a variable "xMode"

Then I can replace the original block

if (extXML == undefined){
    // Page Wizard
    pageIcon.templateData = pageIcon.extXML.toObject();
    pageIcon.templateData = pageIcon.templateData.pageWizard[0];
} else {
   // Toolkits
   myXML = new XML(extXML.firstChild.childNodes[rootIcon.getPageIndex() - pgOffset]);
   pageIcon.templateData = myXML.toObject();
   rootIcon.setTitleText(templateData.learningObject[0].name);
}

with

if (xMode == undefined){
   // Page Wizard
   pageIcon.templateData = pageIcon.extXML.firstChild.toObject();
  // pageIcon.templateData = pageIcon.templateData.pageWizard[0];
} else {
   // Toolkits
   myXML = new XML(extXML.firstChild.childNodes[rootIcon.getPageIndex() - pgOffset]);
   pageIcon.templateData = myXML.toObject();
   // rootIcon.setTitleText(templateData.learningObject[0].name);
}
rootIcon.setTitleText(templateData.learningObject[0].name);

The commented lines of code would be removed - they are just there to make explicit the changes I am proposing.

Not requiring to define a value for xMode in a desktop environment would make it easier to use the models in a pure desktop project (i.e. one in which the developer did not even use the "Create new Page Project option"), but it would need that all XOT projects and future pageTemplate projects had the xMode variable set.

What do you think?

Given that the line
rootIcon.setTitleText(templateData.learningObject[0].name);

works, would it also mean that if we had a method for the page icon to set it's title property that we could use

pageIcon.setTitleText(pageIcon.templateData.pageType[0].name);

As a way of overcoming the problem of using the name value to set up the page title display (probably wouldn't sort out the display of page titles in the TOC though) mmm.

Kind regards

Johnathan

On 21 February 2012 11:25, Julian Tenney <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk>> wrote:
Try this one please.

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>] On Behalf Of Kemp Johnathan
Sent: 20 February 2012 22:51
To: Xerte Developers Discussion List
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Xerte editor closes if you add a setup script to the Learning Object icon

I've been doing some tests as part of establishing a standard pagetemplate.rlo file for the new version of the xerte editor that handles individual page templates..

However I have hit a problem. I want to include one or more set up scripts as children of the Learning Object.

If you add a setup script then this breaks the process of adding a new page. The folder for the page is created in the "pages" folder and the xwd and xml files are created in the page's folder. However the insertion of the page model file into the project fails. This means that if you select "Yes" when the "Open the wizard" prompt is displayed then Xerte collapses to the task bar and won't open again.

If you then close down Xerte and then re-open the project the project behaves correctly until you try adding another page.

Kind regards

Johnathan

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