[Xerte-dev] Re: 1.9 properties

Wed Oct 31 13:03:11 GMT 2012

 "From talking to Johnathan who wrote the original Flash versions they all
have some common functions in them"

Any help moving the connector pages to html5 would be much appreciated.

However please be aware that the connector pages are currently in a state
of flux in that following discussions prior to Julian going on leave I
believe that Julian may be building some support in the engine that will
result in modifications to the Connector pages e.g. with respect to the
selection of page name or page ID; support in the engine to turn on / off
different combinations of navigation buttons. Until I know what is or is
not going to be available and how Nottingham want the available navigation
options to be offered I can't finalise anything.

The function to go to a new page is already in the engine
rootIcon.gotoPage()

I have defined two functions that are common to all the connector pages

1) To handle the setting of navigation options fnSetNavigation()  -which is
highly likely to change as a result of the above mentioned discussion.
2)  fnListToClipboard which is used to generate a list of page names and
page IDs so to support the author when creating links. This may become
redundant if the wizard is able to provide a drop down list of page names
and matching page IDs.

The plainTextConnector page uses a function called fnTextCon This is used
to provide a function that can be called from a hyperlink. This function
manages the setting of the navigation, the usual setting of error messages
if the destination page ID is not found and if the page ID is found the
going to that page.

The scenario connector has a number of additional functions that are unique
to this page type which would not be appropriate to be included in the
engine.

I hope this is of help.

Kind regards

Johnathan

On 31 October 2012 09:49, 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=10
>
> 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 |
> 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 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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