[Xerte-dev] Re: text link to first and last pages

Mon Dec 23 00:41:02 GMT 2013

>Hope you have a great Xmas to! And everyone else reading this!

Likewise. Enjoy the holidays.

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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: 20 December 2013 15:13
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: text link to first and last pages

Your welcome Ron, glad I could help, I haven’t been that active on the list lately due to overcommitting to other stuff… hopefully that will ease up soon though…

Hope you have a great Xmas too! And everyone else reading this!

Regards,

John Smith
Learning Technologist
School of Health & Life Sciences
Glasgow Caledonian University

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Ron Mitchell
Sent: Friday, December 20, 2013 3:05 PM
To: 'For Xerte technical developers'
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: text link to first and last pages

Hi John
that's great thanks for both responses.
It did occur to me that including first, last, prev, next in the page links list would be very useful at some point but for my purposes right now I just need a way to achieve these first and last links with minimal editing and largely because I need to pass on text files to a colleague to do the same. Changing a single number for last page isn't a problem either so <a href="asfunction:_level0.engine.rootIcon.pageLink,1">First page</a> and <a href="asfunction:_level0.engine.rootIcon.pageLink,4">Last page</a> is fine for now.

I think that -1 addition would be useful at some point as would prev and next.

Cheers - have a great Xmas!
Ron

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] On Behalf Of Smith, John
Sent: 20 December 2013 14:31
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: text link to first and last pages

Hmm on second thought, we renamed it… it is navigateToPage(force, pageInfo) where force = true/false and pageInfo = type (page/PageID/LinkID), ID (or page number)

So    x_navigateToPage(false, {type:'page', ID: '3'});    or   x_navigateToPage(false, {type:'LinkID', ID: 'PG123456789'});

>From the xml though this will be automatically ‘replaced’ with the equivalent call above

<a href="asfunction:_level0.engine.rootIcon.pageLink,3">Page 3</a>

This is where we could easily make a change to interpret <a href="asfunction:_level0.engine.rootIcon.pageLink,-1">Last Page</a>

Regards,

John Smith
Learning Technologist
School of Health & Life Sciences
Glasgow Caledonian University

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] On Behalf Of Smith, John
Sent: Friday, December 20, 2013 2:01 PM
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: text link to first and last pages

HI Ron,

Yes, as Julian says, you can use that x_gotopage(n) function from a script but that will only work in the HTML5 player, the asfunction: code is native ActionScript code that only works in the Flash engine…

The asfunction code that is generated by the PageLink context menu in the wizard however is replaced with a javascript call to that x_gotopage(n) function when the page is built…

You can use PageID, LinkID, or page number in the code that it produces – can’t quite remember the exact format just now – but if you use the pagelink and then replace the PageID in the code with 1 then the link should link to page 1…

Last page is harder, there is no way currently to do that without using a script to get the last page from the xenith code and then manually going to that page…

I could however very easily add in –ve page linking… so -1 would be the last page and -2 would be the second from last… if you think that that would be useful… alternatively just having keywords FIRST, LAST, etc… but that could get messy and isn’t very internationalized…

Regards,

John Smith
Learning Technologist
School of Health & Life Sciences
Glasgow Caledonian University

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] On Behalf Of Ron Mitchell
Sent: Friday, December 20, 2013 1:00 PM
To: 'For Xerte technical developers'
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: text link to first and last pages

Cheers, had to park this for now but will have a look.

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] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 20 December 2013 12:32
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: text link to first and last pages

In xenith.js is a function x_gotopage(n)

Any good?

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] On Behalf Of Ron Mitchell
Sent: 20 December 2013 11:53
To: 'For Xerte technical developers'
Subject: [Xerte-dev] text link to first and last pages

Hi all
quick question that I've been trying to remind myself about but failing :-(
With all the page linking stuff we now have I'm not sure if we still have the following that works in html5 player:

I need to be able to add an additional page with the same wording to a whole number of LO's which contains a text link to the first page and separately the last page. Ideally I want to be able to copy and paste the text content including these links without having to edit so rather than linkID's I want to use links that always go to first page and always go to last page even if the number of pages between change. I know the connector pages have the ability to add relative links but do we still have an asfunction type solution that will work on any page type?

Cheers (& season's greetings)
Ron

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