[Xerte] Some simple Qs and comments

[Paul Swanson]

To respond to your main question, to navigate to the next page I use a
button interaction with the following in a script icon:
rootIcon.nextPage();

In my specific case this navigates to the next page on the Main Icon
Flow, but you could navigate to any page on any framework by using
myFrameworkId.gotoPage(pageNumber). pageNumber comes from the id.pages()
property of the framework, and, I expect, is zero-based, so pageNumber
for the first page would be 0, the second page would be 1, etc.

Here is more information on Frameworks from the Help file:

Properties
id.currentPage
id.pages (array)


Methods
id.nextPage();
id.prevPage();
id.gotoPage(number);
id.firstPage();
id.lastPage();
id.exit();

Hope this helps,

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 Paul Swanson
 Portland, Oregon, USA
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk 
> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Riley Fred
> Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 10:05 AM
> To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> Subject: [Xerte] Some simple Qs and comments
> 
> I'm just starting off a project in Xerte 1.9 without using 
> the default interface. The project is to replicate, and 
> improve on, a virtual portfolio currently at 
> http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~ntzfr/vpt/. My current, paltry 
> Xerte-created effort is at 
> http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~ntzfr/vpt/xerte/ with the RLO 
> file at http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~ntzfr/vpt/xerte/vp1.rlo 
> and has taken me
> 4.5 hours so plainly I've yet to internalise the 'Xerte way'. 
> 
> My main Q is: how can I get a button/hotspot take the user 
> from page A to page B? This has to be RTFM, but I have R'd 
> the FM and can't see an obvious answer. It's a pretty crucial 
> manoeuvre for this application.
> 
> Various minor comments/suggestions scribbled below mostly for 
> Julian's attention, as he told me to post this stuff to the 
> list rather than to him personally. All very picky and ignorable.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Fred
>