[Xerte-dev] Design editor

Tue Nov 25 12:27:35 GMT 2014

Hi all,

One of our Norwegian users Jens Magnus Jensen made an example for a new 
design of the editor. Is this something he can go on with? Any suggestions?

Bye,
Inge

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Julian Tenney schreef op 25-11-2014 10:26:
>
> A custom interface is a legacy from the old flash runtime, where you 
> could use a swf as a custom interface: that swf could then call the 
> navigation methods in the main engine.
>
> I'm not so close to the html5 runtime, Fay will give you a better 
> answer tomorrow: try overriding with !important in css?
>
> Otherwise extend the code in the template to handle an optional 
> property for layout?
>
> J
>
> *From:*xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk 
> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of 
> *Smith, Bradley
> *Sent:* 24 November 2014 23:15
> *To:* For Xerte technical developers
> *Subject:* [Xerte-dev] Custom layout for questions?
>
> Hello all,
>
> Not sure if this is better send to xerte or xerte-dev, but I'll try 
> the latter first.
>
> Personally, I'm not a fan of the two-column sort of layout that Xerte 
> seems to prefer for questions. Often, both my questions and answers 
> may include unix commands, screen shots, and other things that take up 
> a lot of horizontal space. What I would like to have is a "vertical" 
> layout that just shows the instruction/prompt (when you only have one 
> question, I'm unclear why you would distinguish between these 
>  anyway), followed by the answer options, each taking up 100% of the 
> page's width.
>
> The closest I've gotten to this is to set the Panel Width setting to 
> "full", and put the instruction and prompt text both in the Prompt box 
> . However, the prompt is rendered as an H3 tag, so the whole question 
> appears bolded. This causes problems with text-heavy questions where I 
> need more variety in the formatting.
>
> I noticed an option to include a custom stylesheet with a learning 
> object, so I uploaded one with:
>
> h3.question {
>
> font-weight: normal;
>
> }
>
> When I load the preview, my browser's dev tools show that the 
> stylesheet is loaded by something, but there is no change to the 
> formatting of the question.
>
> So my question is: what's the best way to do what I want here? I see 
> there's also an option to upload a "custom interface", but that only 
> seems to be available at the the learning object level (as opposed to 
> a specific component like a question), and I haven't seen any docs 
> that explain exactly how to make one anyway.
>
> Suggestions?
>
> ---Brad
>
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