[Xerte-dev] Re: Deprecation, flashonly indicator and optional parameter tooltips

[Smith, John]

To my mind, the act of deprecating the attribute is simply informing users that the attribute should no longer be used as it may disappear or fail to be supported in the future...

It is the adding of a new attribute that would require the work... sometimes those go hand in hand though...

If you take the video size for example x, y becoming separate x and y. You would have to process the x and y in the model to be able to use them as such but you would probably have to still support x, y for a period otherwise you risk breaking things after a single upgrade version...

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From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney [Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk]
Sent: 02 December 2014 10:00
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Deprecation, flashonly indicator and optional parameter tooltips

How many of the models are impacted? Do you have any idea?

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 December 2014 09:55
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Deprecation, flashonly indicator and optional parameter tooltips

This implements the mechanism. That is complete. Just need to change the translation tool to be able to translate the tooltips and the depracation reason.

However, deprecating a parameter is some work. Besides editing the xwd, you need to adapt the model as well.

Tom
Julian Tenney <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk>> schreef op 2 december 2014 10:33:07 CET:
This really helps understand what you talked about yesterday. It looks like a good approach. A lot of work still remains though?


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 Tom Reijnders
Sent: 01 December 2014 20:14
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte -dev] Deprecation, flashonly indicator and optional parameter tooltips


Hi,

Just to show what the new deprecation and flash-only flags can do:

1. Deprecation of optional parameters is done by adding the following to a parameter: deprecated="Reason for deprecation". For now it will only work properly for optional parameters, because you cannot get rid of the standard parameters, but we may decided to change that. See src/Nottingham/wizards/en-GB/textVideo.xwd for an example.

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2. Tooltips for optional parameters. Just add tooltip="Enter the tooltip" to a parameter. See src/Nottingham/wizards/en-GB/textVideo.xwd for an example.

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3. Deprecated page type. Just add deprecated="Reason for deprecation" to the page. See src/Nottingham/wizards/en-GB/mapStraction.xwd for an example.

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4. Mark flashonly parameters. Just add flashonly="true" to a parameter. See src/Nottingham/wizards/en-GB/basic.xwd for an example.

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Regards,

Tom


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