[Xerte] Text to sound
Tenney Julian
Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk
Wed Jan 23 09:05:00 GMT 2008
I didn't have you down as a potential hacker :-)
Unfortunately we have to live with the security issues and associated
workarounds. If you are getting prompted every time you load the page,
you can set the 'initialise and script activex controls not marked as
safe for scripting' setting to 'enable'. You won't be prompted. However,
any other page you hit will also be able to 'initialise and script
activex controls not marked as safe for scripting' without your
knowledge. ActiveX controls can be extremely powerful, gain access to
your system, read and write your files etc, so it's up to you whether
you want to allow this without your say so.
You might want to make the settings for local intranet zone to 'enable'
and the wider internet zone to 'prompt'. You probably trust the files on
your local intranet. You probably shouldn't trust the files on the
internet. If you host your files in your intranet zone testing etc, then
it will remove the prompt. Your users, however, may well be accessing
your files in the internet zone, so for them I think the only sensible
recommendation is for 'prompt'. If you recommend 'enable' and their
machines get turned into zombie servers working to bring down the free
world, then you'll probably get some complaints...
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From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of E.A. Draffan
Sent: 22 January 2008 22:53
To: 'Xerte discussion list'
Subject: RE: [Xerte] Text to sound
Is there any way we can get round the security issues as I have
used Xerte on our website and had to change my settings and now IE
insists on warning me each time I load the LexDis pages! I am wondering
whether it is possible to make this setting a default without having to
compromise security as I fear the instructions will have to go on the
top of all our pages for students - I am thinking long term with our
LexDis project which will hopefully have lots of Xerte files.
Julian thanks for all the support as well - Will you be running
another training day? I really am not having much luck trying to reduce
the size of the Xerte area and also changing button placement plus many
other things but really need to take a day out with the expert again!!
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
From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Tenney Julian
Sent: 22 January 2008 15:49
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: RE: [Xerte] Text to sound
Can you get the TTS to work in the accessibility demo on the
Xerte site?
Get that working first - there are some instructions in it. I
know that works. If it doesn't work for you, it will be an issue with
your browser.
Then put your pieces online - they should now work.
If they don't, you need to play with the security settings for
the zones, as I described earlier,
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From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of ashok ranade
Sent: 22 January 2008 15:15
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: RE: [Xerte] Text to sound
Dear Mr.Julian
I am constantly amazed by the promptness of your replies
which are so thorough. If only there were more like you in this world
!!
I still have some problems with text to speech. But let
me try my hand at solving them.
Thanks again.
Ashok Ranade
Tenney Julian <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
Text to speech is turned on by default. You
don't need to set the proeprties on an icon for it to work. If you use
tab to move around your piece in IE are you hearing any TTS?
Text to speech doesn't work in the authoring
tool - only in the browser, and then only in Internet Explorer, and then
only when it is correctly setup to do so, and finally, only on Windows.
Text to speech uses the SAPI activex control in
IE. The web page you produce when you publish a piece will try and
initialise this activex control. Your browser needs to be set up to
allow 'allow activex controls not marked as safe for scripting' in the
security settings.
In internet explorer go to Tools -> Internet
Options -> Security -> select the zone your pages will be in -> Select
Custom level -> Scroll down looking for the entry 'initialise and script
activex controls not marked as safe for scripting' and set it to either
enable or prompt.
Then put your pulished xerte piece in that zone
for it to work.
Julian
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From:
xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of ashok ranade
Sent: 22 January 2008 09:39
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: [Xerte] Text to sound
Dear Mr.Julian
I have a problem regarding text-to-
speech. The help file says that we have to set the speech property (of
the text icon) to 1 to enable the text to speech. However in the drop
down list of the text icon I do not find the speech property.
Also please let me know whether
text-to-speech is available in the prview.
Regards
Ashok Ranade
Tenney Julian
<Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
The controls should run along the full
width at the bottom of the movie. Is that not the case? One reason for
that is if the movie contains transparency - Xerte can't then work out
how big it should allow for the movie to play. One solution to that
problem is to edit the swf and provide a background for the movie area,
even a transparent one, in the first frame, so that when the movie
loads, Xerte can draw the controls the right length.
If you want to control the movie
independently, use an interaction icon with some buttons on it for play,
stop, pause. Inside those buttons add some script to control the movie.
You will need to give the movie an ID. So if your movie has an id of
myMovie, myMovie.play(), myMovie.pause() and myMovie.reset() will
provide control. You can use custom buttons too if you want a particular
look and feel. The same goes for sound and flv.
There's no practical limit on the size
of Xerte files. We have some in the region of 500Kb that load and run
fine. Most files are in the region of 25 - 100KB. Of course, bigger
files are more complex and harder to maintain. Even a 500KB file is
likley to occupt only a small proportion of the total project's size,
when you've factored in graphics, sounds, swfs and video. You need to
bear in mind the bandwidth available to your end-users, which will
determine the ammount and quality of the media you use - if you're
expecting modem users to view a 25MB swf file it may not be trouble
free.
Whatever your bandwidth, if you have
swfs over about 1MB, it will pay you to convert them to flv if possible,
as they will stream much better,
J
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From:
xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of ashok ranade
Sent: 11 December 2007 08:34
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: RE: [Xerte] sound from .mov
file
Dear Mr.Julian
Thanks for the quick reply. Well, I have
now obtained Flash MX program.So now I am simply importing the .mov
files and exporting them to get them in swf format. So that problem is
solved. Here is another.
When I include controls in my swf file I
am not able to adjust their position independently of the movie. Also
the position of the controls is not good relative to the movie. Will
you please suggest the way.
I must add that I am liking Xerte very
much and intend to use it do develop interactive content for Engineering
college students. Is there any limitation on the size of the Xerte
files? Will there be any problem if the content becomes very large?
Thanks again for your time
Regards
Ashok Ranade
Tenney Julian
<Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
You need to convert the file to either
swf or flv. Have a search for converters,
Julian
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From:
xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of ashok ranade
Sent: 04 December 2007 10:20
To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
Subject: [Xerte] sound from .mov file
Is there any way of importing .mov file
along with sound?
Ranade
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