[Xerte] icon property

[Elly Langewis]

Thanks! That helps. XMLElement will be valuable to me the way I am trying to
organize my course (of course I've been programming exclusively in
Authorware for much too long).


On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 12:50 PM, Julian Tenney <
Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:

>  When you set the property of an icon using the editor, what you are doing
> is setting the value of an attribute in the underlying XML file, like this:
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> <DIS name="The Name For My Icon" id="myGraphic" x="etc"…./>
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> That xml node is used to initiate a MovieClip at runtime. That movieclip
> can be addressed using the id defined in the xml (if it was defined –
> otherwise it gets a computer generated name);
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> The values of the attributes in the XML are not necessarily translated into
> properties of the resulting movieclip. As you have found, name will return
> undefined.
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> Each icon is a movieclip. Each Icon movieclip has a property called
> XMLELement. This is the XML node that was used to initiate the icon.
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> So myIcon.XMLElement.attributes.name<http://myicon.xmlelement.attributes.name/>will contain the value you entered in the editor.
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> Hope that helps understand what's going on.
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> J
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> *From:* xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:
> xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of *Elly Langewis
> *Sent:* 02 October 2008 11:09
> *To:* Xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> *Subject:* [Xerte] icon property
>
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>
> Hi Julian,
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> In the Help file it says:
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> For an icon with an id of 'myIcon', you can address properties and methods
> using the following code:
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> myIcon.property = value;
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> myIcon.methodName();
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> But myIcon.name does return 'undefined' (for a page).
>
> I get the value of the property 'name' back with myIcon.title...so my
> problem is solved, but I do not see why.
>
> Even if I add the property 'title' to the page myIcon.name stays
> 'undefined', so it is not a mix-up.
>
> Elly
>
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-- 
Elly Langewis
courseware developer
Department of Biology
Utrecht University
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