[Xerte-dev] Re: enabling html for LO and page titles or size control for page title?

[Ron Mitchell]

done and committed to both xot and xerte svn's. Hope I got the correct place
in the latter. ;-)

 

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 31 July 2012 17:15
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: enabling html for LO and page titles or size
control for page title?

 

OK

 

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Ron Mitchell
Sent: 31 July 2012 15:47
To: 'For Xerte technical developers'
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: enabling html for LO and page titles or size
control for page title?

 

> You want to do both lines for the title bar.<

Was that a question or a statement?

I'm thinking only an option for the page title is needed especially as also
changing the LO title size would also mean changing vertical position of the
page title accordingly and could lead to problems.

 

 

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 31 July 2012 15:31
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: enabling html for LO and page titles or size
control for page title?

 

Yes, that sounds OK.

You want to do both lines for the title bar.

 

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Ron Mitchell
Sent: 31 July 2012 14:59
To: 'For Xerte technical developers'
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: enabling html for LO and page titles or size
control for page title?

 

Ok been testing this and probably safest to keep it as a simple optional
property for page title size. Doesn't need an engine change just an addition
to the xwd and rlt. I've been testing and concluded that a stepper option is
best with minimum set to 16 and maximum set to 30. 

 

So in the xwd I've added:

<allpagestitlesize optional="true" type="NumericStepper" min="16" max="30"
step="1" label="Page title size"/>

 

and in the rlt:

//change page title size for all pages if optional property set

if (templateData.learningObject[0].allpagestitlesize != undefined){

STYLES.pageTitleSize = templateData.learningObject[0].allpagestitlesize;

}

 

I could commit these two changes to xerte and XOT svn's but do I need to do
something elsewhere to reflect the change to the xwd and in particular to
languify the label?

 

 

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 31 July 2012 11:11
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: enabling html for LO and page titles or size
control for page title?

 

No reason It can't be HTML. An optional property probably more user
friendly, look in the engine to see how the textfield is getting built and
how to set it's size: thre';s something else I need to figure out this
morning.

 

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Ron Mitchell
Sent: 31 July 2012 09:53
To: 'For Xerte technical developers'
Subject: [Xerte-dev] enabling html for LO and page titles or size control
for page title?

 

Hi all

I can't remember if we've discussed this before but could html be enabled
for LO title and/or page title or is there a reason it can't?

 

If for some reason html can't be enabled what about an LO optional property
controlling page title size throughout the LO?

 

The main reason I ask this is that it often crops up that people want to
have longer page titles than there is room for especially when a logo and
the help button is also in use. The help button is a useful feature and
underused but when added it does often mean that existing page titles don't
fit. I know there's an argument that page titles should be kept short but
sometimes for good reason they need to be slightly longer than there is
currently space for when the LO is viewed at 800 x 600 and a logo and help
button is also used. I think an optional LO page title size property would
accommodate this. 

 

The question about enabling html would extend this further but I'm guessing
there's probably a reason that can't be enabled and vaguely recall we may
have discussed that previously.

 

Cheers

Ron

 

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