[Xerte] RE: Xerte interface customisation documentation?

[Tenney Julian]

Load up your swf, and then use Xerte's events to respond to onRelease
for the icon. Give the graphic icon an id, then create an interaction to
handle that icon's onRelease event.
 
Try to keep you code on one side or the other, otherwise it'll get
really messy.
 
J
 
 


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	From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Paul
Beckwith, AC&S Ltd
	Sent: 16 April 2008 14:26
	To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
	Subject: [Xerte] RE: Xerte interface customisation
documentation?
	
	

	Julian,

	 

	Am just working on this, have created a template with one single
button which will be my next button. 

	 

	The actionscript for the button is as follows:

	 

	on (rollOver) {

	            useHandCursor;

	}

	on (press, release, keyPress "<Enter>") {

	            _parent.nextPage();

	            

	}

	 

	 

	It compiles and runs in Xerte fine, the hand pointer over the
button is ok but no joy when actually clicking on the button to go to
the next page. Any ideas? Also thanks for the new update in Xerte, much
appreciated and will be having a look at it later on.

	 

	Paul

	 

	 

	 

	
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	From: Tenney Julian [mailto:Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk] 
	Sent: 11 April 2008 13:05
	To: Mark Tomlinson, AC&S Ltd
	Subject: RE: Xerte interface customisation documentation?

	There is a template in the templates folder somewhere. Basically
what you do is create a Flash movie. You load that into Xerte as a
property of the interface icon, and then you call the methods of the
interface icon from code in your swf (i think off the top of my head
through _parent.nextPage() etc). 

	 

	You can also address the engine scope and access any variables /
objects etc created in your Xerte scripts from code in your interface
through _level0.engine.myvar. Thus you could combine the two together to
create, for example, an interface with a glossary button. Clicking the
glossary button accessses varibles created in the Xerte script itself,
and is displayed using your interface.

	 

	It's not as hard as it seems. I think the template is for a
dragable controller.

	 

	You can also create framework interfaces this way.

	 

	Next thing you'll be asking about is custom buttons [check the
templates folder again - you'll find a fla in there with a  button mc in
it, with 8 states inside it]

	 

	J

		 

		
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		From: Mark Tomlinson, AC&S Ltd
[mailto:mark.tomlinson at acns-group.com] 
		Sent: 11 April 2008 12:22
		To: 'Tenney Julian'
		Subject: Xerte interface customisation documentation?

		Jules

		 

		Is there any documentation we can start to look at for
adding a different interface?

		 

		My 'lad' is getting on OK and I see you are pointing him
in the right direction.

		 

		Cheers

		 

		Mark

		 

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