[Xerte-dev] Re: New modules

[Julian Tenney]

Oh, I've not had time to actually do it, it's just this is a timely piece of work (thanks) because we are looking at the bootstrap library as a way of making 'will run anywhere' OERs. I quite like it. We are going to have a chat about it here and see if it's something we could / would want to build in next week, and it's probably work for after Christmas anyway. A dummy would be good but there's no real hurry.

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat Lockley
Sent: 23 November 2012 15:52
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: New modules

Did it work?

I can work the 3/4 new ones up into proper templates if easier? Or make a dummy example one?

On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 12:30 PM, Pat Lockley <patrick.lockley at googlemail.com<mailto:patrick.lockley at googlemail.com>> wrote:
Erm, it depends really

If you wanted to make a new xerte template it works as it used to

If you wanted to use a xerte editor but a different preview / play then you'd make a different modules/xertenew folder

I can't check in from here - code is at home

new template makes a new folder, and then copies over the folders (media) and files (data.xml) needed to make the default xerte template. If you don't need to change this, then duplicate it.


On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Julian Tenney <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk>> wrote:
> make a new folder in modules
You mean in modules/xerte/templates?

> Then when you create this template, it will call new template.php in your folder
New_template.php is in modules/xerte. Reading the code I see it copies folders of files. I'm not really sure I understand what's going on here. I think if you check in the extra templates you've done I might be able to figure it 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 Pat Lockley
Sent: 23 November 2012 11:25

To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: New modules

make a new folder in modules called "module_name"

In this copy all of the files from modules/xerte

make a new folder in module_name called the shortname for your template (i.e Nottingham)

In this folder put a .info file called the same name as the folder and in that file put the stuff from the Nottingham one (play with some of the settings as you see fit)

Then when you create this template, it will call new template.php in your folder
Editing will call edit
Play play and so on

So mod the code to do whatever you want it to do

If you are using Xerte as the editor, then you can leave new and edit in tact and just mangle preview and play - but I think most of this is now in module_functions.php

On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Julian Tenney <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk>> wrote:
So as a lab rat, if I wanted to use a xwd to create a wizard for creating data to drive a web page built with twitter bootstrap, how would I do that?

The wizard stuff I can do (obviously) but how do you hook up a new runtime (the base html page) and how is the data passed to it? Then I can use jQuery to build the page from the data...

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 Pat Lockley
Sent: 23 November 2012 10:06

To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: New modules

The right hand list is built from the database still, if you go to management.php and templates then "update" you'd get them all. They can exist as folders and not be usable.

On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 10:02 AM, Julian Tenney <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk>> wrote:
OK. As time goes on we ought to also move the source code for various things from the xerte svn into the toolkits one, so building the zip will become more complicate than simply zipping up the svn folder. At the moment, does the workspace's list of templates get built from your modules - i.e. will I see them in the workspace automatically?

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 Pat Lockley
Sent: 23 November 2012 09:38

To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: New modules

Can I commit them just for the sake of having a green tick? I guess the zip isn't made directly from the trunk (lots of old Xerte templates)

I've also not copied trunk over the top of 1.9, or introduced any of the generic play code talked about the other day.

I also realise import isn't modularised, which is a bit of a problem.

On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 9:14 AM, Julian Tenney <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk>> wrote:
Leave them out for now,

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 Pat Lockley
Sent: 22 November 2012 23:18
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] New modules

I haven't committed any of my new modules to trunk, but I could do so, on the basis you could leave them out of the 1.9 zip?

Not fussed.


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