[Xerte-dev] Re: 1.9 Release

[Smith, John]

Hi Ron,

Yes, I'll take another look at it when my head is clear but I suspect it could be a timing issue as Pat suggests. I was thinking about it and there isa second pause already in some browsers before it changes page, rather than just increase this delay we could perhaps shorten it and then have it fire the page change code up to 5 times over a few seconds. If the page then changes then the rest are cancelled. Not sure if that is even possible with the current code but that's how I've coped with similar inconsistent timings in the past.

As for Xenith, I don't see it being any problem to implement, just a matter of finding the page and changing the currentPage variable to reflect this , but I just want to try to ensure a little consistency in the naming conventions so I'll follow on from what you are using when you commit your code code...

Regards,

John Smith
Learning Technologist
School of Health & Life Sciences
Glasgow Caledonian University

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Ron Mitchell
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2012 11:47 AM
To: 'For Xerte technical developers'
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: 1.9 Release

Hi John
just a quick note in reference to your item about enabling deep linking in Xenith....

I haven't even looked at the Xenith side of this but guessing that it should be easier and also suspect that it is something users would almost expect to be able to do given that a Xenith LO appears to be a normal web page rather than a flash movie. I spent even more time over the weekend trying to locate the incompatibility with XOT and IE and still haven't located that. :-(

So as it works just fine with every other browser I'm going to commit the current version of the flash .rlt and .js that I've been using in the next hour or so and see if anyone else can find the conflict.

Cheers
Ron

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] On Behalf Of Smith, John
Sent: 12 November 2012 11:31
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: 1.9 Release

Hi,

An update from me...


*         I'll have a go at deep linking Xenith today or tonight now that the IDs are being stored and the methods are there to use them. I suppose I should use the same parameters as the flash version...


*         I've done the plain text connector for Xenith and it works somewhat. Will pick another relatively easy one and make a start before Fay returns and then touch base with her as I've run into an issue with navigation not hiding when required...


*         textDrawing model  is 95% done. I've identified 15 tools and now they all work, some 100% and some maybe 95% - subject to my testing anyway. Will upload that soon for others to hopefully test.


*         I've made a list of the still outstanding basic models with some notes and a rough guess of the complexity/how long they will take to do. Will discuss with Fay as we need to share a buglist too as a few things have come up which I'm wondering whether she is aware of and I know that some of my first attempt models are not 100% as I didn't have a proper dev friendly environment setup, which I do now.


*         I have also started work on a document listing how I have setup to develop which may help anyone else coming on board. Took me a while to get it working well but now I have something that I am happy with so it may help others in the same boat.

Also, need to mention phpStorm. Having been using it intensively over the past few days I like it. So would recommend it to anyone wanting to get involved in the Xenith side of things. Most if not all of the HTML5 specific tags are present and the context highlighting etc is pretty good...

Regards,

John Smith
Learning Technologist
School of Health & Life Sciences
Glasgow Caledonian University

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] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2012 11:12 AM
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] 1.9 Release

We have signposted the 1.9 release for Christmas for a while: it's not far away now.

We have the ongoing template work that Fay is leading that we want to include, although it won't be finished. What else do we want to finish off and roll into the live code? I do not want to miss this deadline, there are loads of people asking me about Xenith, even calling me up out of the blue to ask when it will be ready... so we need to make a list and plan. Things I'm aware of:

- The connectors / linkID stuff;
- deep linking;
- Pat's modularisation stuff (can we merge this into trunk now?);

What else is there?

How shall we keep track of this stuff?


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