[Xerte] Decision eraseOnExit does not work properly?

Thu Feb 12 16:45:16 GMT 2009

Yes. Sometimes it makes sense to just zip straight through the decision
(like when it's purpose is simply to manage your icons a bit better, or
to positioj items randomly on the stage); othertimes some interaction
will move it on. You could just let that interaction exit to achieve the
same thing, if it's the last icon in the page. id.nextPage() is useful
when you want to be able to control the decision icon from elsewhere - a
global button for example.

I'm happy to have some discussion about decision icons. Unless you've
used AW, they are hard to explain.

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[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Paul Swanson
Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 4:41 PM
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Subject: RE: [Xerte] Decision eraseOnExit does not work properly?

You can just add a script icon to the decision icon page.

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[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Dave Burnett
Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 8:02 AM
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Subject: RE: [Xerte] Decision eraseOnExit does not work properly?

Ah, I have to set up the handler?

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Subject: RE: [Xerte] Decision eraseOnExit does not work properly?
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 15:45:59 +0000
From: Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk
To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk

decID.nextPage();

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[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Dave Burnett
Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 3:14 PM
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Subject: RE: [Xerte] Decision eraseOnExit does not work properly?

In fooling with this issue I noticed setting "pause" on a decision icon
displays the first icon but does not seem to afford any way to advance.

Dave

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Subject: RE: [Xerte] Decision eraseOnExit does not work properly?
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 13:35:25 +0000
From: Patrick.Lockley at nottingham.ac.uk
To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk

The question might be "How are you leaving the decision icon?"

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[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Peter
Huppertz
	Sent: 12 February 2009 13:34
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	Subject: RE: [Xerte] Decision eraseOnExit does not work
properly?

	Hi Dave, 

	as I see it 

	erase=1 erases the content immediately after i leave it, even if
i stay in the decision icon 
	erase=0 makes the content stay there 
	eraseonexit=1 should erase all the content of the decision icon
when I move to another icon not located in the decision icon (not in my
case ... this is the problem) 
	eraseonexit=0 the content stays there, even if I leave the
decision icon 

	Nevertheless to make sure I tried all variants but none worked
for me the right way ... eraseonexit does not seem to influence anything
in my piece ... 

	Thanks for your help! 

	Peter 

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RE: [Xerte] Decision eraseOnExit does not work properly? 

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	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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Date: 

02/12/2009 01:19 PM 

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RE: [Xerte] Decision eraseOnExit does not work properly? 

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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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