[Xerte] Writing/reading text

[Paul Swanson]

John,

 

I haven't messed about with this, but Actionscript does have a
setClipboard method
<http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/8/main/wwhelp/wwhimpl/js/html/wwhelp.ht
m?href=Part4_ASLR2.html>  that could potentially be useful to place text
in the clipboard. Some instructions for opening Notepad or some other
editor, then pasting the clipboard and saving the file locally might
work for you. There is no getClipboard method, though, for security
reasons. You would need instructions to open the saved text file, copy
the contents, and paste them into a text field in Xerte. 

 

Paul

 

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Patrick
Lockley
Sent: Friday, August 07, 2009 2:22 AM
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: RE: [Xerte] Writing/reading text

 

Hi John,

 

Xerte doesn't directly have the ability to save a file, as it's flash
based and as such relies on flash's file handling functions (i.e open
only). However, you could write a server side script to handle that for
you.

 

So that would work for you on a server, but it would not work for using
a CD. 

 

There is an send and load event which can obtain XML / any other data.

 

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of John Lannon
Sent: 07 August 2009 10:08
To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
Subject: [Xerte] Writing/reading text

 

Hello all,

 

I'm new to Xerte and to the list but I've set up the standalone exe
version, looked through the examples, and created/published my own basic
template-based learning object.

 

My question is as follows: I want to create an interactive online
application where the user is presented with questions (mostly text
entry panels for large amounts of text); the user can save their input
at any time, and can reload them into the appropriate panels when they
re-start. I want to run the published project from a server or CD and
save the entered text locally on the user's PC.

 

I presume I can write/read from an XML file, but would welcome any
advice or examples.

 

Thanks in advance,

 

John Lannon

Systems Developer [Human Rights Impact Resource Centre] Aim for human
rights

Email: j.lannon[at]aimforhumanrights[dot]org

 

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