[Xerte] Very simple Drag and drop

[E.A. Draffan]

Yippee.... Success :>))   I will have another go with other items and then
write it all up next week - thank you so much for all your help. 
Best wishes E.A.

----Original Message-----
From: Tenney Julian [mailto:Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk]
Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 9:11 AM
To: ea at emptech.info; Xerte discussion list
Subject: RE: [Xerte] Very simple Drag and drop


Hi,

So you have two items, a fish and a bird. You want both items to be
draggable to the net. If the fish is dropped there, then the feedback 'well
done' is shown, and the piece moves on; conversely if the bird is dropped
there, it is returned to it's original position and you say 'Nope, try
again'.

So, set up the fish and the bird as graphic icons. Give them each an ID,
i.e. fish and bird;

Add a text icon to the flowline and call it feedback, give it the id
feedback. We'll use code to display feedback in this, so don't type anything
in it just yet.

Add an interaction to the flowline and give it an ID, i.e. myInt;

Add a target area to the interaction;

Press SHIFT-F5 and position / size the target area where you want it
(probably over your graphic of the net);

In the properties for the target area response type
bird~leave~0,fish~leave~0. This sets up the response to match both the fish
and the bird.

Now add a script icon to the target area response. You will write some code
now that checks to seee which item was dropped. In the script icon, type
this code:

if (myInt.objectDropped == fish){
  //the user dropped the fish
  feedback.setText("Well Done");
}

if (myInt.objectDropped == bird){
  //the user dropped the bird
  feedback.setText("Nope, try again.");

  //return the bird to its starting position (you need to know the x and y
values)
  bird.animate(10,10,10,'linearTween');
}

Check the sample I just built at:

www.nottingham.ac.uk/~cczjrt/simpleDragDrop.zip

The reason you find it complicated to build drag and drop is because they
are complicated. They are always the most complex interactions to put
together, and the reason for that is there are so many ways of designing
one: broadly, you can have oneItem-oneTarget, manyItems-oneTarget,
oneItem-manyTargets or manyItems-manyTargets types of drag&drop interaction,
and in each case you can have correct and incorrect items. There are other
things you may want to do, like tile the items as they are dragged into a
box, or sort items based on some criteria.

Regards,

Julian






-----Original Message-----
From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of E.A. Draffan
Sent: 30 September 2007 21:26
To: 'Xerte discussion list'
Subject: [Xerte] Very simple Drag and drop

As a complete newbie to interactive Xerte I have been struggling to get a
simple drag and drop with two items and one target to work -  the fish goes
to a net but if the bird is sent to the net it springs back - 'well done'
comes up when the fish is in the net and then the user goes to the next
slide. 

The drag and drop sample on the Xerte site seems to want to debug itself
when I run it and does not tell me whether I have submitted the right
collection of words to the tick, cross or tin can and I feel it is a bit too
complex for learning disabled adults - the users I am working with for this
exercise.  It is designed to enhance mouse or keyboard use as well as to be
a learning task having listened to an audio file on the subject of fishing.

I am wondering if anyone has an rlo that I could blatantly copy!  (she says
blushing!)  I have to admit that I have been trying to track down flash
files on the web and most are once again too much for this audience. I am
happy to share the final result with anyone who wants to use the templates
if they work!!!

Best wishes E.A.

Mrs E.A. Draffan
Learning Societies Lab
ECS, University of Southampton
Tel: +44 (0)23 8059 7246
http://www.lexdis.ecs.soton.ac.uk
http://www.emptech.info/

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