[Xerte-dev] Re: Export and first go at new way of Tracking

[Tom Reijnders]

Thanks, for trying this out. As far as I can follow you the tickmarks  
aren't working properly. Will fix a.s.a.p.

Tom

Citeren Ron Mitchell <ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk>:

> Hi Tom
> I've put the latest svn code (including these updates) in place on the
> techdis /xot install
> The export and ability to view html 5 locally seems to work great! However
> it seems I can't select to export using only the flash engine e.g. can't
> un-tick Use HTML5 Engine and with both selected I only get index.htm with
> HTML5 playback not Flash also? The same applies to a localhost xampp install
> too. Although both are updates not new installs.
>
> Haven't tried the scorm exports yet but the above applies to both deployment
> and archive.
>
> HTH
> Ron
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Tom Reijnders
> Sent: 02 April 2013 07:53
> To: For Xerte technical developers
> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Export and first go at new way of Tracking
>
> I've will commit several changes shortly.
>
> - Be aware that I have changed the Engine, the preloader AND xenith.js!
>
> 1. Export
>
> I implemented a first pass of the export. It's a first pass because there
> are still discussions going on, on how to implement export. For now I've
> added two checkboxes: Use HTML5 (checked by default) and Use Flash (off by
> default).
>
>   - If none is chosen, export creates an html5 object
>   - If both are chosen, both are available, but no automatic failover
> (index.htm for html5 and index_flash.htm for flash)
>   - With any of the scorm packages only one engine will be exported with a
> preference for html5.
>   - I cleaned up a lot of file with respect to the javascript helper
> functions that are needed by xmlEngine.swf. They are now in rlohelper.js.
>
> 2. SCORM
>
> I implemented a new way of SCORM tracking in flash and in HTML5. For now, it
> will track page visits. I will write up an article of the design, and how
> you can add tracking to new pages (if you only want to know if and for how
> long a page is visited, you don't need to do anything.)
>
> - SCORM tracking is determined on export.
>      a. If you export a Scorm2004 zip, you get full scorm 2004 tracking
>      b. If you export a scorm 1.2 package, you et full Scorm 1.2 tracking
>      c. If you export a deployment zip, you get no tracking
>
> - The quiz tracking is broken for now. I'll fix that in the upcoming
> week(s).
>
> - I plan to add Tin Can tracking as well (but there are some challenges to
> work out there...)
>
> - In xenith.js, I changed the x_changePage() API function, in that it no
> longer expects x_currentPage to be set to the correct value before calling,
> but it expects the new value as a parameter.  In that way, I have the old
> page (in x_currentPage) and the new page (in the parameter) in that fuction,
> and I can handle all tracking in x_changePage. So to move a page forward
> call x_changePage(x_currentPage+1); BEWARE that you MUST NOT CHANGE
> x_currentPage here, so do NOT call x_changePage(x_currentPage++).
>
> Tom
>
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