[Xerte] FW: First impression of Xerte and some wishes

[Tenney Julian]

Leif,
 
Many thanks for your comments. 
 
To answer your points:
 
Video loop. You mean you want a 'loop' property, like the sound icon? You can make it loop right now using the onMovieComplete event to trigger some code that resets and plays the movie again. I can adda loop property, but I'm not sure if it's something that people would use?
 
I don't experience any problems dragging and dropping icons. Generally the rule is to drag it into the parent icon you want to add it to. You can also right click and use the context menu, or double click icons in the palette to insert them.
 
I'm not sure what you mean by a 'preview of the custom color set function'?
 
I can add those keys in for delete and help.
 
You can tell whether an icon is collapsed or not. Icons are greyed out slightly if they are closed and empty, fully coloured if they are closed and contain children. There were some good reasons for hiding the disclosure arrows.
 
Adding an icon to a closed icon does expand it. Right?
 
I'm aware of the bug that prevents you deleting custom properties, but remember that if the property isn't listed, the engine will not know what to do with it - you must handle it yourself in your own code.
 
Can you elaborate on the media browser functionality you'd like to see?
 
True WYSIWYG is very difficult to achieve, as the editor is editing an xml file - to see that file play, it must be saved, read by the engine and parsed. Remember the CTRL-F5 and SHIFT-F5 shortcuts.
 
You can hide the default interface by changing visuals to 0 on the interface icon. Then you can make your own. You can hide the theme selector buy using the code:
 
rootIcon.themes._visible = false;
 
similarly for the size control
 
rootIcon.sizes._visible = false;
 
Hope that helps,
 
Julian

Hello
I´m from Sweden so excuse me if my average Swenglish spelling s-cks.
I´ve been progamming Authorware for 10 years.
 
First impression of Xerte is - "a nice authoring tool with nice template design".
 
but...(I have Win XP home edition)
 

*	I couldn´t get a video to loop which should be obvious. 
*	Often there is a problem when drag ´n dropping the icons to create a page, a text , a framework etc. I have to do it over and over again to finally get it there on the flowline. When there is a red line showing the place where I want to put an icon - it wont work- the plus-sign dissapares. 
*	I like a preview of the custom color set function. 
*	I like some standard keys to work - like when a icon is marked you should be able to delete it with the "delete" key, f1 for help and so on. 
*	I would like to see the preview at the same time - which updates when you edits the pages - as Lectora, Authorware and toolbook etc. A WYSYWIG function. But the F5 key is great also. 
*	If an icon is collapsed, you must see a plus-sign to understand that it is collapsed. 
*	When you add an icon to a collapsed icon it should expand 
*	You should disable the add new property line if it isn´t allowed - for instance - I added a new property line "loop" to a video just to try it - then I couldn´t delete the line neither did the function work - it didn´t loop. So make it disabled or don´t disable the delete key at that time. 
*	When looking after media to insert - you should have an browser function to look after images, videos and sound with the appropiate extensions. mp3, flv  etc. It could be inserted at the right end on the value line 
*	The color template chooser I hope can be hided from the user to make sure the authors design and will come through. 

 

best regards

Leif Söderlund
Art´n Act, Sweden


 

 
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