[Xerte-dev] Optional parameters in the new editor

Mon Sep 15 16:33:23 BST 2014

Hi,

Ronald van Loenen made a list of all optional parameters and where they 
are suited in XOT. (It's in Dutch;)). Is it usefull to translate this in 
English so we have a list to work with?

Bye,
Inge

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Ron Mitchell schreef op 15-9-2014 16:43:
> Not sure about anything new to add right now but happy to contribute to the
> discussion re Parameters/optional properties etc
> Ron
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
> Sent: 15 September 2014 10:04
> To: For Xerte technical developers
> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Drawing editor in the new HTML editor
>
> Sounds like a good plan. It will be good to get the editor code into
> develop. The other things we talked about when we met last week are below:
> does anyone want to add anything else?
>   
>
> Media Lesson (Fay)
> Positive feedback on developments. Ongoing work to build an editor, bearing
> in mind the need for simplicity. Initially developed as a page type, with
> ability to turn off headers and footers for a standalone piece. To
> investigate for the use of youtube / vimeo / Kaltura sources as well as
> local files.
>
> Video (Fay)
> To investigate possibility of using streaming services as well as standalone
> video files in all places where video is used in the templates. It's much
> better to use a streaming service like youtube than to upload mp4s, and it
> would be good if this option existed in all places where video can be
> included.
>
> Page Type Review (Julian)
> Worthwhile reviewing all the existing page types with a view to identifying
> templates that are no longer needed, primarily those designed for the old
> Flash runtime. A longer term goal is to address responsive design in the
> remaining page types.
>
> Parameters (Julian / Tom)
> Related, worthwhile reviewing each page type and ensuring the parameters are
> consistent - there are some page types where parameters are not named
> consistently from one page to another
>
> New HTML5 Editor (Tom)
> Complete except for the drawing tools, and will use the existing Flash based
> tools for now. Only really useful for the 'interactive diagram' page type,
> where the interactivity is drawn. A lot of work to rebuild this in HTML5 /
> Canvas.
>
> Workspace (Ron)
> To review and possibly make some quick changes to the workspace to make
> better use of space (we tend to find good use is not always made of the
> panels beneath the workspace), and to invert items when highlighting.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Tom Reijnders
> Sent: 15 September 2014 09:21
> To: For Xerte technical developers
> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Drawing editor in the new HTML editor
>
> Ok. succeeded in doing that (almost)
>
> I need someones help to catch the close event to ask whether the drawing
> should be saved or not.
>
> Other than that, it works, only now you have to make sure that you push the
> save button yourself.
>
> See the usual test install :-)
>
> I am going to take the following actions in the course of this week:
>
> 1. Commit editor code to editor branch
> 2. Merge editor branch into develop (at that point we have a unstable
> release on the website) 3. Make a closed beta-test forum with instructions
> 4. Make a cosed beta install available 5. Continue implementing the
> deprecated attribute for the xwd pages and parameters on the editor branch
> to be merged into develop later on 6. Look at the list of issues and decide
> what features to implement for the next release 7. After we have finished
> the features create branch 2.2 (or whatever version number we are thinking
> of (3.1?)) to start a public beta
>
> Let me know if this suits everyone?
>
>
> Tom Reijnders schreef op 14-9-2014 12:26:
>> No, that's definitely a bad idea. The customHotspot page is definitely
>> not easy to change to use SVG data!
>> I'll go ahead and create a specialised drawEdit.swf for the HTML editor.
>>
>> Tom
>>
>> Tom Reijnders schreef op 13-9-2014 15:07:
>>> Hmmm.
>>>
>>> The current flash editor uses LocalConnection() to comminucate the
>>> drawing xml between the old flash wizard and the drawing editor
>>> itself. So I would need to modify the drawEdit.swf (draw.fla) to
>>> communicate through javascript.
>>>
>>> We still would only have a flash drawing editor.
>>>
>>> I found svg-edit, a javascript editor that produces SVG data.
>>>
>>> http://svg-edit.googlecode.com/svn/branches/stable/editor/svg-editor.
>>> html
>>>
>>>
>>> We could theoretically convert the current drawing shapes to SVG. Is
>>> that a more viable road? (Would still need to change/edit somethings,
>>> like how to get the images in svg-edit)
>>>
>>> So what is the best route to take....
>>>
>>> Tom
>>>
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