[Xerte-dev] Re: 1.8 Release
Kemp Johnathan
johnathan.kemp at ntlworld.com
Tue Jul 10 09:55:29 BST 2012
A pages = true attribute would be a tidy solution.
If you did that I could change the models to test for that instead of
rootIcon.projMode which is currently set in the entryFrame script.
I hope your week goes well.
Kind regards
Johnathan
On 10 July 2012 08:07, Julian Tenney <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
> I only added it yesterday. You can play around with it now, the basic
> logic is there. I might think about whether you can set a pages=true
> attribute on the LO icon to test? I'm busy a lot of this week with
> graduation,
> ________________________________________
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> xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Kemp Johnathan [
> johnathan.kemp at ntlworld.com]
> Sent: 09 July 2012 14:54
> To: For Xerte technical developers
> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: 1.8 Release
>
> I must have missed something somewhere along the line - I didn't realise
> that you had added this code.
>
> Both "Pages" projects and ordinary Xerte projects created using file / new
> will have an ,rlo extension.
>
> File / New projects are named by the author e.g. myProject.rlo whilst
> "Pages" projects always have the file pages.rlo so testing for the
> existence of pages.rlo would be unique in all cases save the chance
> situation in which someone created a File / New project and decided to name
> their project "pages".
>
> A further possible identifier might be the existence of a folder called
> "pages" in the project folder. This folder does not exist when you create a
> "Pages" project. But it is created when you add the first page from the
> selection of pre-defined pages.
>
> "Pages" projects also have a a setup script that is a child of the
> entryFrame that includes the line
>
> rootIcon.projMode = "dev";
>
> This sets the variable that is tested for by every model file to identify
> if the project is a pages project or a XOT / pageTemplate project.
>
> However I am guessing that this will only e set at run time so would not
> be of use as a value to test for in the editor.
>
> If the optimum route was to add a property to the learning object then
> there are two approaches I can think of
>
> 1. The learning object in a pages project has its own xwd form pages.xwd
> and it would be simple enough to add a property to that form as an
> identifier.
> 2. A better solution might be to add a new property to the learning
> object itself - i.e. to show up in the learning object's property panel.
> (Would this require a change in the code that defines a learning object?)
>
> If either 1 or 2 were implemented as a solution then it might be tidier
> then to modify the test in the model files to use this value rather than a
> value set in a setup script.
>
> What do you think is best?
>
> Does any of the above give you the identifier you need?
>
> Kind regards
>
> Johnathan
>
>
>
> On 9 July 2012 11:52, Julian Tenney <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk
> <mailto:Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk>> wrote:
> It’s not beyond your skills…
>
> In the wizard I have added this
>
> //in the change handler for the name field
> comp.change = function(obj){
> this.attributes['name'] = htmlToAtt(this.text);
> if (mdm != undefined){
> //set the TOC name in xerte for page projects
> mdm.Forms.editor.callFunction('setNameAttribute', this.text)
> }
> }
>
> And in the editor I have added this:
>
> function setNameAttribute(nameString){
> //set the name attribute for page projects
> if (tree.selectedNode.parentNode.childNodes.length > 2){
> tree.selectedNode.attributes.name<
> http://tree.selectedNode.attributes.name> = nameString;
> tree.dispatchEvent({type:"change", target:tree});
> }
> }
>
> What I need to know (and have asked before) is how to know it’s pages
> project? The bold line isn’t a good test for one…
>
> …but the logic goes
>
> //wizard
> If mdm exists we are on window xerte not toolkits, so call the function in
> the editor to set the attribute
>
> //editor
> Ah! Wizard wants to set the name attribute. If this is a pages project, I
> should go ahead and set it. But how do I know it’s a pages project? It
> might be a big template…
>
> So, what is the best test? An .rlt extension denotes templates? A data
> property on LO? Must be easy to find out.
>
> 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: 08 July 2012 08:02
> To: For Xerte technical developers
> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: 1.8 Release
>
> Are we looking to release Xerte desktop at the same time as XOT?
>
> If so there are a few issues remaining with desktop Xerte, which are
> listed on Ron's spreadsheet.
>
> The most critical is the current inability to capture the page title for
> display in the TOC and on the displayed page.
>
> This is something that is outside of my skill set to rectify.
>
> Kind regards
>
> Johnathan
>
> On 7 July 2012 17:53, Tom Reijnders <reijnders at tor.nl<mailto:
> reijnders at tor.nl>> wrote:
> I am not going to commit anything global before the next release.
> All changes will be part of the 'language pack'.
>
> So, as far as I am concerned, nothing is prohibiting a release.
>
> Regards,
>
> Tom
> Op 7-7-2012 15:46, Kemp Johnathan schreef:
> Many thanks.
>
> JK
>
> On 7 July 2012 08:47, Tom Reijnders <reijnders at tor.nl<mailto:
> reijnders at tor.nl>> wrote:
> Sorry for the mistake. Corrected the spelling of your name :-).
>
> Tom
> Op 7-7-2012 6:45, Kemp Johnathan schreef:
> OK, I successfully downloaded it this morning.
>
> Thanks for the mention on the copyright notice on the installer.
>
> Would you mind correcting the spelling of "Jonathan" in the copyright
> listing
>
> correct is "Johnathan"
>
> Kind regards
>
> Johnathan
>
> On 6 July 2012 20:19, Tom Reijnders <reijnders at tor.nl<mailto:
> reijnders at tor.nl>> wrote:
> No, my mistake, sorry.
> Please try again.
>
> Tom
> Op 6-7-2012 16:26, Kemp Johnathan schreef:
> Hello Tom,
>
> I just tried to download the new xerte 1.8 beta from
>
> http://www.xerte.org.uk/beta/xerte-beta.exe
>
> but got an Access forbidden! Error 403 message displayed.
>
> Has the url changed or have I made a mistake in the url I am trying to use?
>
> Kind regards
>
> Johnathan
>
> On 6 July 2012 09:51, Tom Reijnders <reijnders at tor.nl<mailto:
> reijnders at tor.nl>> wrote:
> Xertetrans is operational again
> Latest xerte-beta is uploading as we speak....
>
> Will commit last changes to xot (if not too dangerous) later today.
>
> As far as I am concerned, xerte standalone is ready for (beta) release.
>
> Julian, I committed my inno setup file as well (it contains one line to
> include the Dutch translation of the wizards, but you might want to skip
> that)
>
> Op 6-7-2012 9:11, Tom Reijnders schreef:
> I'll finish up today.
> Op 5-7-2012 12:36, Kemp Johnathan schreef:
> I have just downloaded the current beta from Tom's site, installed it and
> run a few tests.
>
> The beta is not using the latest models from svn/runtime/pages/models.
> Also the issues currently identified in Ron's spreadsheet remain.
>
> I am am sorry but other than test them there is not much I can do about
> them.
>
> I have completed a range of pdt files to provide some support for the new
> stuff, with perhaps two omissions
>
> 1. How the language features work
> 2. How to create a new page in Xerte and add it to XOT (I wasn't sure
> if this would soon become obsolete in the light of the HTML5 developments.)
>
> Kind regards
>
> Johnathan
>
> On 5 July 2012 10:20, Julian Tenney <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk
> <mailto:Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk>> wrote:
> Fellow completer-finishers,
>
> Before we get distracted with new stuff, let’s finish off the existing
> stuff: did all the outstanding things that various people were going to do
> get done and are we ready to go?
>
> J
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