[Xerte-dev] Re: Design editor

Tue Nov 25 13:56:04 GMT 2014

That looks great to me!

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Subject: [Xerte-dev] Design editor

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

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[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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