[Xerte] Noob question

[Dave Burnett]

Thanks Julian.

I was mushing around the 2.1 help files and was sure I could get it to work in a round-about way.

Let me mull around a bit before I ask for a re-compile.
I'll save that for the real nasty stuff.
:-)

Dave 




Subject: RE: [Xerte] Noob question
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 21:44:19 +0000
From: Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk
To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
CC: Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk










there is an onData event I can trap for you on loadVars. You can point to a url, I can get an icon to load it via loadVars, intercept the onData event, and pass it back to your code in an event handler iconID.onData. I can set iconIdD.rawData or similar and then when you handle iconID.onData you can have a text icon {iconID.rawData}.
 
The onData event fires before onLoad, and lets you access the raw text in the file you loaded. Same with the XML class. Basically it's readExtFile(). I'm not sure if there is support for it right now in Xerte, but it is five minutes to add it.
 
Remember the supported HTML is a bit limited, thanks to the Flash player. Stylesheets might be useful.



From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk on behalf of Dave Burnett
Sent: Thu 29/01/2009 21:35
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Subject: RE: [Xerte] Noob question


Yes.



Subject: RE: [Xerte] Noob question
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 21:26:56 +0000
From: Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk
To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk





what do you want to do with them? Load them and display them?



From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk on behalf of Dave Burnett
Sent: Thu 29/01/2009 19:39
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Subject: RE: [Xerte] Noob question


Thanks Julian.
I just stumbled across it by accidentally adding a URL param in the source.

So what's the accepted method for handling external text files in .htm format?

Now you see why I got curious.
AW had hidden unsupported methods, right? ;-)

Dave




Subject: RE: [Xerte] Noob question
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 19:17:57 +0000
From: Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk
To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk





It isn't.
 
BUT
 
Under the hood, Xerte uses the same class to display graphic icons and text icons, so the <DIS> nodes can have url properties, but they refer to the URL for an image for the graphic icon. There's some code that goes 
 
if (node.attributes.type=='graphic'){
  //add a graphic icon to the stage
} else if (node.attributes.type == 'text'){
  ///add a text icon
}
 
If I were to rebuild it, there would be two classes. In fact there'd probbly be three, with one seperate one for swfs.
 



From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk on behalf of Dave Burnett
Sent: Thu 29/01/2009 17:02
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Subject: [Xerte] Noob question


What's the URL parameter in the Text icon used for?





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