[Xerte-dev] Re: New modules

Fri Nov 23 16:13:45 GMT 2012

I've got one more mapping one to make for my stuff. Then I have a project I
am working on to make a non-LO thing within XOT.

On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 4:01 PM, Julian Tenney <
Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:

> 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.****
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> *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
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> *To:* For Xerte technical developers
> *Subject:* [Xerte-dev] Re: New modules****
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> Did it work?
>
> I can work the 3/4 new ones up into proper templates if easier? Or make a
> dummy example one?****
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> On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 12:30 PM, Pat Lockley <
> patrick.lockley at googlemail.com> wrote:****
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> 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.****
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> On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Julian Tenney <
> 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,****
>
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> *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 11:25****
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> *To:* For Xerte technical developers
> *Subject:* [Xerte-dev] Re: New modules****
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> 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****
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> On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Julian Tenney <
> 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?
> ****
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>  ****
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> 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…****
>
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> *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 10:06****
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> *To:* For Xerte technical developers
> *Subject:* [Xerte-dev] Re: New modules****
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> 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.****
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> On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 10:02 AM, Julian Tenney <
> 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?****
>
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> *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 09:38****
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> *Subject:* [Xerte-dev] Re: New modules****
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> 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.****
>
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> On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 9:14 AM, Julian Tenney <
> 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] *On Behalf Of *Pat Lockley
> *Sent:* 22 November 2012 23:18
> *To:* For Xerte technical developers
> *Subject:* [Xerte-dev] New modules****
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> 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?****
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> Not fussed.****
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