[Xerte] Customizing Xerte template for Company ID

[Julian Tenney]

All the Xerte 3 code is in the repository . It is much easier to
customise - I am using FlashDevelop to build it. You'll find the runtime
engine code in the Xerte 3 folder - it needs compiling against the Flex
4 SDK which is still in beta - Beta 2 has just been released and there
are nightly builds from Adobe, but I am finding issues with the later
versions of the SDK - things work out mostly OK with Beta 1. Adobe
suggest Flex 4 will be complete in early 2010.

http://code.google.com/p/xerte/ is the repository,
http://code.google.com/feeds/p/xerte/updates/basic is a feed with
comments every time I check in the files which you might like to
subscribe to.

Creating a customised interface is mucuh easier in Xerte 3 - you can
look at creating your own with all the controls available to you, or you
can look at the Interface.as. There is more work needed on Interface.as
to better handle the accessibility features found in the existing
default interface. The ApplicationControlBar is very useful.

This version http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/xerte/downloads/xerte3alpha.exe
mostly works as far as it goes - certainly good enough to have a good
play around,

J

-----Original Message-----
From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Willem Britz
Sent: Friday, October 09, 2009 8:34 AM
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: Re: [Xerte] Customizing Xerte template for Company ID

Good morning Patrick

Find attached the changes i made to the XMLEngine.fla file. Most of the
AS changes were commenting out relevant lines of code. My aim was to
keep the integrity of the original build. Are you using a similar
structure for Xerte 3 with AS3? Would it be possible to have a look at
the AS3 files?

Regards

Willem Britz


Patrick Lockley wrote:
> It would be nice, if not too much work if you could document what you 
> did, as then others could duplicate it.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Willem 
> Britz
> Sent: 05 October 2009 13:35
> To: Xerte discussion list
> Subject: Re: [Xerte] Customizing Xerte template for Company ID
> 
> Great,just downloaded, will keep you up todate on what we get done.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Willem Britz
> 
> Patrick Lockley wrote:
>> Everything is open source
>>
>> http://code.google.com/p/xerte/
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Willem
> Britz
>> Sent: 05 October 2009 13:07
>> To: Xerte discussion list
>> Subject: Re: [Xerte] Customizing Xerte template for Company ID
>>
>> Thanks for the info is the fla file available for XMLEngine.swf?
>>
>>
>>
>> Julian Tenney wrote:
>>> They are part of the default interface, in XMLEngine.swf. If you
> don't
>>> want to use th deault interface as it stands you can
>>>  
>>> - modify XMLEngine.swf (but then you need to keep your verswion up 
>>> to
> 
>>> date with our changes)
>>> - create your own interface (but then you lose all the 
>>> accessibility)
>>>  
>>>  
>>>
>>>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> --
>>> *From:* xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk on behalf of Willem
> Britz
>>> *Sent:* Mon 05/10/2009 11:03
>>> *To:* Xerte discussion list
>>> *Subject:* Re: [Xerte] Customizing Xerte template for Company ID
>>>
>>> Julian Tenney wrote:
>>>  > all the files in /common, the models in /models and the .rlt
>> itself,
>>>  >
>>>  >
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> --
>>>  > *From:* xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk on behalf of Willem
>> Britz
>>>  > *Sent:* Mon 05/10/2009 10:27
>>>  > *To:* Xerte discussion list
>>>  > *Subject:* [Xerte] Customizing Xerte template for Company ID  >  
>>> > Hi  > We are planning to implement a similar look and feel for all

>>> our  > lessons/projects. This would include custom buttons,flv 
>>> players
> and
>>>  > different positioning to the current template. This would be
> visual
>> more
>>>  > than functional customization. Which files do i need to access to
>> do the
>>>  > aforementioned customizing?
>>>  >
>>>  >
>>>  > Regards
>>>  >
>>>  > Willem Britz
>>>  >
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>>> Thanks Julian
>>>
>>> Have included a screenshot of the areas we want to customise.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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