{Spam?} [Xerte] Making controls bigger and return to a web page.

[Tenney Julian]

Hi,

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When you say 'the controls' what do you mean? Media controllers, i.e.
for sound / video? The size of the default controlls can't be changed,
I'm afraid. You could try giving the video an id, and then using some
code to scale it, i.e.

myMedia._xscale = 200;
myMedia._yscale = 200;

But this will scale the video too, which might not be what you want.

You can use custom buttons. First of all get a normal buttons working to
control the video:

- Add the media to the page, and give it an id, i.e. mediaID
- Add an interaction below the media, and add three buttons to it;
- Add a script to each button;
- In the first script use mediaID.reset() to reset the media; label the
button 'reset';
- In the second script add the code mediaID.play() to play the media,
label the button 'play';
- In the third, add the code mediaID.pause() to pause the media, label
the button 'pause';

Test your piece.

Once all that's working, you can create the custom buttons. You will
need Flash to do this, and should work from the button template.fla in
the [xerte]\templates\buttons folder.

HTH,

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 October 2007 16:15
To: 'Xerte discussion list'
Subject: {Spam?} [Xerte] Making controls bigger and return to a web
page.


I am wondering if anyone knows how I can make the controls bigger for
those who have dexterity difficulties?

The other option is just to add an action button to start the sound - in
this case we might use a symbol similar to the volume sound symbol.   

The second question is - what code do I need to get the xerte file to
automatically close and allow the user to return to the web page that
hosts the learning object when the task has been correctly carried out? 

Thank you so much for your help. 
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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