[Xerte-dev] Re: Displaying the page title in the TOC in desktop Xerte.

[Julian Tenney]

Hiya, given I am consistently not getting time to do the things I've already commited myself to, this is going to have to be something you'll have to look into yourself. But if you can do those tow ifs, then you can easily write a function in the editor to set the attribute, and you can easily call that fom the wizard. What you need to resolve is how to know if(xerte) && if (pages)

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Kemp Johnathan
Sent: 25 May 2012 14:07
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Displaying the page title in the TOC in desktop Xerte.

I would guess not.

I don't know if Tom put anything in when you select to create a project of type "pages".

At present there is a value set in a setup script off the entryFrame

rootIcon.projMode = "dev";

which is used to tell the model files that they are not in XOT or pageTemplates.

However if there is something being flagged in the "pages" type projects that would be accessible to the page scripts then this might be a better solution also for triggering the models than having something in the setup script.

Kind regards

Johnathan

On 25 May 2012 14:00, Julian Tenney <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk>> wrote:
Does the wizard know about projectType?

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: 25 May 2012 13:59
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Displaying the page title in the TOC in desktop Xerte.

I think it could be even simpler than that.

on closure of xwd form
If (projectType == "pages") {
  access xml for name value of first element;
  write name value of first element into page Icon's page title property;
}

I wouldn't bother even checking if the name value has changed unless the overhead of doing the process was significant. Removing the check makes the process quicker and It's not taking place when viewing the project so it won't slow down the learner experience one jot.

Kind regards

Johnathan

On 25 May 2012 13:25, Julian Tenney <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk>> wrote:
Can you suggest a process?

When the name attribute changes in the wizard if (xerte) and if (pages) call some function in the editor to set the property?

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: 25 May 2012 12:33
To: Xerte Developers Discussion List
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Displaying the page title in the TOC in desktop Xerte.

Having read recent postings it looks like some work is taking place on the various flash files that drive Xerte.

One of the outstanding items that needs a solution is how the "name" value in a page's xml data can be made to display as the page title, both in the top left of the Xerte screen and in the TOC.

I think this is resolved in XOT because the pages are created at runtime from the XML data, but in "pages" projects this is not the case.

I can add a couple of lines to every model that will display the "name" value from the XML data for the page as the page title in the top left corner, but it still won't appear in the TOC.

Currently desktop Xerte takes the value entered in the Page's Title property in the Page's property page as the value to display in the TOC and top left of the screen. If there was a way that Xerte, on closure of the xwd form could access the "name" value of the top element in the page's xml data, and then write this to the page's "title" property, then both the display of the page title in the TOC and in the top left corner of the screen would be resolved without any change to the models.

Is this doable?

Kind regards

Johnathan




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