[Xerte] More Questions

[Julian Tenney]

Fire up Xerte. Go to the templates menu, choose the pageTemplates option
there. Let it create a new project or you. Once it's done, you should be
faced with the wizard screen, and the insert menu in the top left. This
allows you to add pages to the project.

 

This is the way to use Xerte if you want to create content quickly,using
predefined templates - no need to script anything. You can create cutom
pages by loading up flash movies which do things not available in the
other page types.

 

The file type for this type of project is .rlt. When Xerte opens an .rlt
file it automatically opens the wizard interface. Underneath that is the
normal Xerte dev environment - if you close the wizard you will return
to it. To fire up the wizard again by doule clicking the Learning Object
icon (which now has a little cog wheel on it, indicating this is a
data-driven piece).

 

Probably best  not to mess with the underlying .rlt file until you've
figured a bit more out - this is quite advanced Xerte.

 

The wizard interface allows you to edit an xml file (template.xml) which
contains your content. At runtime this file is loaded up, and the logic
in the .rlt uses the data in this file to construct the piece
dynamically, based on the data it finds in there.

 

If you've jumped straight into the quiz templates tutorial, and haven't
written any code before you'll have a lot of further questions - just
shout, but be aware this is quite advanced stuff, and you should
defintitely learn some coding first. Work through the getting started
bit of the help file, that should help quite a bit,

 

J

 

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Robert Fant
Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 3:12 AM
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: [Xerte] More Questions

 

First, thank all of you (Julian, John, and Patrick), for your quick,
informative responses.
I feel much better but have a LONG way to go.

I have actually created a couple of pages with some trivial (scrolling)
text boxes, math symbols, and a graphic, (must start somewhere, right).
Working through the quiz tutorial in the help menu, now.   My
programming / scripting skills are minimal, so this is going to be
tough.

QUESTION(S):   I got on John's online site and saw that one can "Insert"
various templates from a drop-down list, (inter-activities, media,
navigators, etc.).   I don't seem to have all of this available with the
desktop version.   What am I missing?   Do I need to install these
templates?   However, as I look through the directory where Xerte is
installed, I can see what appears to be folders with a lot of this stuff
available.   I'm guessing I just don't understand how to implement any
of them.
The "template" directory in the help file just seems to only disect and
explain the various xml files.

I suppose this is enough for now.   I've been at this all day.

Thanks in advance for your help and expertise,


-- 
Robert Fant
Mathematics Instructor
Technology Integration Enthusiast

rfantster at gmail.com
http://robertfant.com
Skype Username:  rfantster

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