[Xerte] Noob question

[Julian Tenney]

I just updated it and fixed a different bug with loadVars anyway, so you
might as well have it:

 

Usage

iconID.readFile(url);

 

Parameters

url. The url of the file to read.

 

Description

Reads in an external file. Fires the 'onReadFile' event when complete,
and sets iconID.fileData with the contents of the file.

 

Returns

Nothing.

 

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Dave Burnett
Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 10:12 PM
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Subject: RE: [Xerte] Noob question

 

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 





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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.

 

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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.

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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?

 

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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



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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.

 

 

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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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