[Xerte] Actionscript 3 version of Xerte and backwardcompatiblitywith current versions

[Julian Tenney]

Almost certainly there won't be backwards compatibility with .rlo files
- things are just too different.

 

Definitely there will be compatibility with toolkits data, which is just
data after all.

 

Things are still very embryonic. You can check out the samples in the
.svn, and can install a fledgling Xerte 3. There are still some quite
fundamental decisions to make on how best to take this forward, but
having said that you can already see how much more powerful it is.

 

Download it here:
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/xerte/downloads/X3AlphaSetup.exe. This is
not for any production work - just a preview of some work in progress.

 

 

 

 

 

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Patrick
Lockley
Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 3:16 PM
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: RE: [Xerte] Actionscript 3 version of Xerte and
backwardcompatiblitywith current versions

 

Hello,

 

Anyone with access to the SVN has been able to see the beginnings of an
actionscript 3 version of Xerte for about a month or so. It's also been
listed on the wiki page for a while as well.

 

Toolkits is modularised and as such could happily run many different
editors and players as part of the same system (we've been playing with
a HTML play version over the last few days), but because Xerte 3 is in
it's very early days for its development, I can't really give any
specifics as to what it will and won't be able to do. 

 

It's worth noting that I am not working on Xerte 3 directly, as I don't
know any flex, and the answer above is mostly guess work as Julian's not
here.

 

If there are features you would like then please have a think about it
and let us know, or maybe even start a page on the wiki.

 

Pat

 

 

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Johnathan
Kemp
Sent: 06 August 2009 14:25
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: [Xerte] Actionscript 3 version of Xerte and backward
compatiblitywith current versions

 

Hello Xerte Team,

 

In my explorations through the archives I came across something Julian
posted on 22nd July 2008 regarding a Xerte 2.0 type application that
would use actionscript 3.0. 

 

In this posting Julian writes

 

> It would lead to a Xerte 2.0 type application that would actually
> compile swfs and use AS3.0. It would use the flex framework rather
than
> it's own engine, and so the differences between that and the current
> Xerte would be significant - it would be hard to recreate the flowline
> metaphor for example. A lot of work to do though, so view it as work
in
> progress.

If I recall correctly Pat has mentioned in recent postings working on an
Actionscript 3.0 version of Xerte.

 

I was wondering how backward compatible this would be with the current
versions of Xerte / Templates / Toolkits, bearing in mind Julian's
comments from 2008.

 

Kind regards

 

Johnathan

 

Johnathan Kemp
ICT Development Coordinator
Connexions Staffordshire
www.cxstaffs.co.uk <http://www.cxstaffs.co.uk/> 
01785 355714

 

 

 

 

 

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