[Xerte] Actionscript 3 version ofXerteandbackwardcompatiblitywithcurrent versions

Thu Aug 20 16:21:15 BST 2009

Yes, or at least I have had no issues.

Subject: RE: [Xerte] Actionscript 3 version	ofXerteandbackwardcompatiblitywithcurrent versions
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:19:20 +0100
From: johnathan.kemp at cxstaffs.co.uk
To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk

Can the version 3 be installed on the same pc as a 
production current version of Xerte without problems?

Kind regards

Johnathan

Johnathan Kemp
ICT Development Coordinator
Connexions 
Staffordshire
www.cxstaffs.co.uk
01785 
355714

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk 
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian 
Tenney
Sent: 19 August 2009 14:15
To: Xerte discussion 
list
Subject: RE: [Xerte] Actionscript 3 version 
ofXerteandbackwardcompatiblitywithcurrent versions

The 
tempaltes stuff willt ake most time because there is a lot more to do, and the 
runtime needs to be pretty stable before going down that 
road.

The 
alpha is available right now. With a bit of luck Xerte 3.0 beta sometime before 
christmas – there are still some quite fundamental choices to 
make.

Then 
it really depends on you lot as we need a good deal of experiences and 
suggestions to get to the same place we are with the current 
version.

From: 
xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk 
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Johnathan 
Kemp
Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 2:15 PM
To: Xerte 
discussion list
Subject: RE: [Xerte] Actionscript 3 version 
ofXerteandbackwardcompatiblitywith current 
versions

Is there 
an ETA for the release of a production version of Xerte raw and templates / 
toolkits for the AS3.0 platform.

I am 
just wondering if Christmas may be arriving a little early this year 
:-)

Kind 
regards

Johnathan
Johnathan Kemp
ICT 
Development Coordinator
Connexions Staffordshire
www.cxstaffs.co.uk
01785 
355714

From: 
xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk 
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian 
Tenney
Sent: 19 August 2009 13:34
To: Xerte discussion 
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Subject: RE: [Xerte] Actionscript 3 version of 
Xerteandbackwardcompatiblitywith current versions
The 
runtime engine is inherently different. It is built on the Flex framework, which 
brings an awful lot of out of the box power vis a vis developing the whole thing 
from scratch in AS3.0. The interpreter is different, so the scripting language 
changes a bit. Overall the application is very similar. I have built what’s 
there so far using FlashDevelop, which I like a lot, and everything is now much 
more object-oriented than before. This makes it a lot easier for the community 
to contribute than it is currently, and also much easier for us to manage 
contributions to the code base. As now, any contributions would be very welcome 
– although the runtime engine is pretty good right now – it is the editor that 
needs a lot of work. Certain editor considerations might mean looking again at 
the .x3o file format which is why things are very much ‘for information’ right 
now.

Does 
that answer your question?

From: 
xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk 
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Dave 
Burnett
Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 12:54 PM
To: Xerte 
list
Subject: RE: [Xerte] Actionscript 3 version of Xerte 
andbackwardcompatiblitywith current versions

Julian, so do 
you see a bifurcation in the development tracks, or will dev on < 3.0 become 
community based?

Cheers,
Dave

Subject: RE: 
[Xerte] Actionscript 3 version of Xerte and backwardcompatiblitywith current 
versions
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 10:00:11 +0100
From: 
Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk
To: 
xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk

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
01785 
355714

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