[Xerte-dev] Re: 1.9 properties

Wed Oct 31 10:14:22 GMT 2012

No I don't mind 

(adds another thing to never ending to do list...)

-----Original Message-----
From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat Lockley
Sent: 31 October 2012 10:13
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: 1.9 properties

not to nag, happy to help - it's just a nice standard to adopt so in theory stuff doesn't break.

Of course all of the code I wrote in XOT is class based *disappears*

On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 10:10 AM, Fay Cross <Fay.Cross at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
> Yes, I realised as soon as I sent it I misread it.
>
> It's not all like that (probably should have done so).  Any functions in them are (e.g. every page has a pageChanged function that's called when the page is moved back to e.g. accNav.pageChanged()) but the code run when first set up isn't.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk 
> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat 
> Lockley
> Sent: 31 October 2012 10:04
> To: For Xerte technical developers
> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: 1.9 properties
>
> cross wires (maybe)
>
> With firefox plugins they force all javascript functions to be inside 
> a JS object so
>
> var model = new Object{
>
> modelload:function(){
>
> dostuff();
>
> }
>
> }
>
> so there are no scope conflicts?
>
> On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 10:01 AM, Fay Cross <Fay.Cross at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
>> Yes, there's a model folder like in the flash version
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat 
>> Lockley
>> Sent: 31 October 2012 10:01
>> To: For Xerte technical developers
>> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: 1.9 properties
>>
>> is each page model js within it's own object?
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 9:49 AM, Fay Cross <Fay.Cross at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
>>> Hi John
>>>
>>> Thanks for sending these.  I'll get them on my test version and try them out.
>>>
>>> Apologies if me changing some of the way the main files work last week has messed you about at all.  I changed it so that all the main elements, variables, functions etc. that we don't want to be messed around with on accident by naming something the same in a page model now begin with 'x_'.  It looks like you've used this version in making these models so hopefully it didn't affect you too much.  I wouldn't have thought there'd be anything else big changing in the xenith.js file now that would mean changing all the model pages.
>>>
>>> You mentioned that you might look at the connector pages at some point.  From talking to Johnathan who wrote the original Flash versions they all have some common functions in them (e.g. functions that find the page with the correct page id).  As the same code will be used in several page models then the best place for this is probably the xenith.js file so we're not repeating the same code in multiple page model files.  I'm happy for you to add anything in there that's needed.
>>>
>>> Thanks again for the work you've done so far - I certainly didn't expect that a couple of weeks after the AGM someone who hadn't contributed anything before would have got involved so quickly!
>>>
>>> Fay
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>>> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of 
>>> Smith, John
>>> Sent: 30 October 2012 19:44
>>> To: For Xerte technical developers
>>> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: 1.9 properties
>>>
>>> Hi Fay,
>>>
>>> That makes sense now. I've attached the delicious.html and the youtuberss.html models for now while I work on the textDrawing.html and youtube.html ones, I hope they get your approval, given the quality of the rest of your code...
>>>
>>> A caveat is that the delicious.html one doesn't actually work but that's because the JSON API tag feed appears to be broken. According to their dev pages here (http://delicious.com/developers#title1), this url should return a JSONP object of the first 10 search results for 'cuillin', wrapped in test():
>>>
>>> http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/json/tag/cuillin?callback=test&count=1
>>> 0
>>>
>>> Now it was working yesterday but just died today and now only returns: test([]) for any tag... strange. Have tried contacting them but still no reply. Commit it anyway and when it starts working again I'll fix any errors that crop up. I've still not checked out any of the other options although i've included an equivalent if else statement to that in the equivalent rlm. Will test these also when I get access to a more comprehensive data.xml file...
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> John Smith | Learning Technologist
>>> Room A251, Govan Mbeki Building | School of Health & Life Sciences | 
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>>> ________________________________________
>>> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>>> [xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Fay Cross 
>>> [Fay.Cross at nottingham.ac.uk]
>>> Sent: 30 October 2012 09:48
>>> To: For Xerte technical developers
>>> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: 1.9 properties
>>>
>>> You're right, the Html5 stuff really needs to be in the other svn. I think I was just reluctant to do this before as I didn't want a new Toolkits zip to be made which included it until there was a way to properly access the html5 versions of projects.
>>>
>>> Thanks for looking at some of the outstanding pages that need doing, that's really useful, could you send them to me please if you can't commit them.
>>> ________________________________________
>>> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>>> [xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Smith, John 
>>> [J.J.Smith at gcu.ac.uk]
>>> Sent: 29 October 2012 16:49
>>> To: For Xerte technical developers
>>> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: 1.9 properties
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I know I'm new here but personally I think that JSON export would at 
>>> least be as useful if not more useful as XML, especially when 
>>> working in a JavaScript environment like the HTML5 engine. (see next 
>>> part)
>>>
>>> Incidentally, not sure if I only have commit access to XOT since XERTE desktop is being treated as almost dead in the water but the Xenith code i'm working on is part of the XERTE trunk, not XOT. My interest is just now is getting the HTML5 engine mature enough to use in anger. Over the weekend i've done the following HTML5 engine models:
>>>
>>>      delicious (95% ready) - had to use JSONP request because of same origin policy
>>>      youtuberss (95% ready) - have use new JSONC request
>>>      textDrawing (<50%) - don't have a sufficient test file for this model and the XOT Jisc site won't save the image or let me add pictures just now... need to get XOT installed locally or use usb version temporarily (anyone help out with a test XML stub for this model??) Oh and the screenshot shows the freehand done using pixel <divs> for non canvas compatibility
>>>      youtube (~80% ready) - just a guess as only a few sizing issues
>>>
>>> Attached some screenshots for those who want to see.
>>>
>>> I'ml definitely interested in working on the connector pages soon though and tying this altogether as we want a "mobile" compatible (read iPad) RLO repository of some fashion by the end of the academic year.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> John Smith | Learning Technologist
>>> Room A251, Govan Mbeki Building | School of Health & Life Sciences | 
>>> Glasgow Caledonian University Cowcaddens Road | Glasgow | G4 0BA 
>>> ________________________________________
>>> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>>> [xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat Lockley 
>>> [patrick.lockley at googlemail.com]
>>> Sent: 29 October 2012 13:25
>>> To: For Xerte technical developers
>>> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: 1.9 properties
>>>
>>> Also, would JSON export be more useful / as useful as XML export?
>>>
>>> On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Pat Lockley <patrick.lockley at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>> WordPress has a theme supports function, so I am thinking of having 
>>>> a list to indicate the tabs per template, or something similar
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 1:15 PM, Ron Mitchell <ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>> 1, 2 & 3
>>>>> Personally I don't think it's a necessity that the same tabs exist 
>>>>> for all templates but I suspect it's easier to just display a 
>>>>> message like 'This property is not relevant to this template' than 
>>>>> it is to change the code to dynamically change tabs based on the template in use.
>>>>>
>>>>> 4
>>>>> Increase the properties window size and display 'This property is 
>>>>> not relevant to this template' for Xerte templates?
>>>>>
>>>>> Just my quick thoughts...
>>>>> Ron
>>>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>>>>> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat 
>>>>> Lockley
>>>>> Sent: 29 October 2012 12:48
>>>>> To: For Xerte technical developers
>>>>> Subject: [Xerte-dev] 1.9 properties
>>>>>
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>> On the properties panel there are several options which are sort 
>>>>> of xerte specific - XML and media and quota for example.
>>>>>
>>>>> Some of the new templates aren't XML, so XML makes no sense - and 
>>>>> the media and quota code is very xerte specific.
>>>>>
>>>>> Would people think
>>>>>
>>>>> 1) all off these options should exist for all templates?
>>>>> 2) should tabs exist even if the functionality doesn't?
>>>>> 3) what sort of message should it say
>>>>> 4) what if I have scope for an extra tab?
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