[Xerte] Download times and seeing items

[Tenney Julian]

You need to load the swf first, then, once that's laoded, load the
audio.

Right now, I think you have the swf and sound as two consecutive icons. 

To load the swf before attempting to load the sound:

- make sure the swf is before the sound;
- give the swf an id, i.e. mySWF
- place an interaction icon after the swf  and add an event response to
it;
- set up the event response to exit = 1, icon: mySWF and eventName:
onLoad
- add a script icon to the event and add the following script:

debug("the swf has loaded - the interaction will now exit");

So what happens? The swf icon is encountered, Xerte starts to load it,
the interaction halts the flow until the onLoad event is heard. When the
swf is fully loaded, the interaction exits, and the flow passes along to
the sound icon, which begins to stream, and will start to play as soon
as it can.

The problem you will have is trying to synch the playback of the swf and
the sound. I would highly recommend trying to do the voiceover as part
of the captivate file, so you only have one swf to worry about, and you
can then use the swf controllers to play the swf back. Having two
controllers on the screen for different parts of the same thing is
confusing for folk, I think,

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: 07 October 2007 00:18
To: 'Xerte discussion list'
Subject: [Xerte] Download times and seeing items

I am just wondering if there is any way I can solve the problem of the
swf image not appearing in the second slide until the audio is half way
through.
In Mozilla the swf file stays a normal size but in Internet Explorer 7
there are times when it appears oversized before jumping into the
correct
position. http://www.lexdis.ecs.soton.ac.uk/hints/rloObject.htm    Once
loaded it all works like a dream so I really do want to go on using this
method of showing some student strategies. 

Many thanks. 

2nd Thought
Has anyone got the sort adjectives and nouns (or was it verbs) drag and
drop sorting sample on their machine - I have now posted my drag and
drop efforts hidden on the LexDis website!
http://www.lexdis.ecs.soton.ac.uk/experiments/dorrie/rloObject.htm  but
once again I fear the photos are too large and download times are not
very good - at least not on my farmyard BT internet connection at home! 

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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