[Xerte] Decision eraseOnExit does not work properly?

[Julian Tenney]

Nope.

 

Erase = 1 will delete the contents of the last page when you move to
another page of the decision; eraose = 0 will allow content to build up
on the screen

 

After the last page of the decision icon, the contents of the deision
icon (i.e. all it's pages) are deleted if eraseOnExit = 1;

 

I know this works because I often use sequence = randomUnused,
eraseOnExit = 0, erase = 0 , pause = 0 to display a randomly ordered
list of items.

 

Another good use for decuision icons is to manage a page's contents when
it starts to get lengthy - you can just set up the decision icon with
pages for things like background, interface, graphics, interactions,
etc. Helps to organise things nicely.

 

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[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Dave Burnett
Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 1:15 PM
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Subject: RE: [Xerte] Decision eraseOnExit does not work properly?

 

If it's modelled on the AW structure, then this is my take:

Erase=1 in the decision will erase anything the decision structure left
on screen when the flow moves out of that structure.

EraseonExit=1 will leave any content the decision icon structure
displays until the decision icon structure is exited.

So EraseonExit=1 should let your decision icons build up, Erase=1 will
erase the whole shebang when the dec structure is exited.

Dave 



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Subject: RE: [Xerte] Decision eraseOnExit does not work properly?
From: peter.huppertz at baselgovernance.org
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 13:31:42 +0100

Hi Dave, 

using the same ID was a tip from Julian and it seems to work. But indeed
it is somehow unusual if you work with flash, html, etc. 
Small updates on my issue: 

1) all pages that I add after page2 are displayed one above the other.
NOTHING get erased anymore ... 
2) If I change erase=1 in the decision icon the navigation and the
display of the different pages works fine, the only drawback is, that
the previous content in the decision icon gets erased also (as it should
be regarding the help). I just want to build up my page using multiple
parts. 

Peter 



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This may have nothing to do with it, but are there 2 icons with the same
id?
In Authorware this is a no-no and causes strange behaviours.

Dave

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From: peter.huppertz at baselgovernance.org
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 12:46:33 +0100
Subject: [Xerte] Decision eraseOnExit does not work properly?

Hi List, 

I have the following structure: 

pageContainer 
-- fw id=currentFWID 
---- page1 
-------decision id=currentFWID, eraseOnExit=1, branch=sequence,
repeat=all 
----------pagepart1.1 
----------pagepart1.2 
----- page2 

on an entrypage I created a button with the onRelease event script
currentFWID.nextPage(). 
Everything works fine except that when I reach the end of the decision
page2 is displayed on top of page1, thus the content of page1 is NOT
erased at the end of the decision branch. What did I do wrong? 

Peter

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