[Xerte-dev] Upcoming changes

[Tom Reijnders]

Julian, Fay,

I've made some changes to XOT, the engine, the wizard, the 
MainPreloader, Nottingham/wizards/en-GB/data.xwd and 
languages/wizard_en-GB.xml. Specifically the behaviour of languages is 
slightly changed (see 3.). I didn't touch the way the language is 
selected in the php5 player (yet).

1. Added an optional parameter visuals (Flash Engine Visuals) for the 
learningObject in data.xwd. This is exactly the same as the visuals of 
IFC (in standalone Xerte). It enables to have a white default player 
without the accessibility buttons. I still need to implement a way to 
get those back by a key press. It makes the LO easier for children with 
ADD or ADHD. The visuals of the learningObject has priority over the 
visuals of IFC. It doesn't have any effect on the HTML5 code.

2. Added a parameter language (Language) to the learningObject in 
data.xwd. The parameter itself was already in, but you could not edit it.

3. Changed code, so that the language parameter of learningObject has 
precedence over the language of LO. This is a change that should be 
checked in HTML5.

4. Modified the language selection code of XOT (it now uses the 
language-config.xml file to present the available options, and it is 
available in the workspace, so now you can cahnge languages even if you 
use some kind of integration or guest access. (It used to available on 
the login page only)

5. Added a 'LanguageList'type in the wizard. It presents a combobox 
populated with the languages in language-config.xml. This is used in 2.

6. Changed the wizard so that the popup messages can be translated as well.

Now, two questions:

1. Are you fine with these changes?
2. Trunk only or 1.91 as well?

Regards,

Tom

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Tom Reijnders
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