[Xerte] Configuration file

Mon Sep 14 13:58:17 BST 2009

In authoring mode (not sure about packaged) when I first open Xerte and run my 640/480 stageSize piece, the window it is in opens to what looks like 800/600.
I manually resize the window to match the stage and it stays that way for the session. Till I restart Xerte.

Just wondering if the presentation window can be matched to the stageSize setting?

Subject: RE: [Xerte] Configuration file
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:35:06 +0100
From: Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk
To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk

Not sure what you mean…

From:
xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Dave Burnett

Sent: Monday, September 14, 2009 1:27 PM

To: Xerte list

Subject: RE: [Xerte] Configuration file

Any
JS/AS I can use to chain the presentation window size to the stageSize?

Subject:
RE: [Xerte] Configuration file

Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:11:37 +0100

From: Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk

To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk

I think I left it as it was
because it is a pain to handle ll the different paths, and then it would only
work for some people…

From:
xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Dave Burnett

Sent: Monday, September 14, 2009 1:10 PM

To: Xerte list

Subject: RE: [Xerte] Configuration file

Thanks
for offering Julian.

Not worth ninnying around with if it's not in an external config file.

I just thought I might be missing it.

If it's internal, leave it alone (or at least until there's a substantial
wish-list).

Dave

Subject:
RE: [Xerte] Configuration file

Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 20:54:20 +0100

From: Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk

To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk

what would you like it to do?

Remember the last folder?

Is that the same location for models and
other browse dialogs?

Or does save, save as, import media, save
model etc all have their own paths remembered?

From:
xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk on behalf of Dave Burnett

Sent: Sat 12/09/2009 13:49

To: Xerte list

Subject: [Xerte] Configuration file

Just
a minor lazy man question.

I took a quick look for an .xml or .as file that sets, for instance, where
Xerte initially opens to on "Open File".

My installation always opens to the desktop.

Is that hardcoded?

Dave

Subject:
RE: [Xerte] Developing xerte models from toolkits .rlm files

Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 17:54:42 +0100

From: Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk

To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk

I'm not sure what you are trying
to achieve. You want to use an accordion in a standalone project?

What you have done is right - you also need
to look for the duplicate function that builds the piece, and either copy /
paste the icons it would duplicate, or use your own data to drive it.

From:
xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk on behalf of Patrick Lockley

Sent: Thu 10/09/2009 17:14

To: Xerte discussion list

Subject: RE: [Xerte] Developing xerte models from toolkits .rlm files

Why thank you.

Julian will give you a better answer, but the
template had one piece of xml (the RLT) that configures how xerte displays the
other piece of XML (the XML).

Where you see external xml, you need to turn
that in on itself, so imagine the whole RLO as XML, and then references parts
accordingly, which is what you appear to have done, so I would believe that
should work.

What do you see when it runs?

From:
xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk on behalf of Johnathan Kemp

Sent: Thu 10/09/2009 14:27

To: Xerte discussion list

Subject: RE: [Xerte] Developing xerte models from toolkits .rlm files

Dear "Richly deserved award winning Xerte team",

If I have understood your reply you are referring to the Xerte
online tookits installation where you could find the models in

c:\xampp\htdocs\xertetoolkits\modules\xerte\parent_templates\Nottingham\models

if you were using the Xampp installation.

I think I have effectively started working with the same set of
files but by creating an empty Xerte template based project and looking in the
models folder of the project.

However both sets of .rlm model files provide the same problem
- they are based around templateData. For example the getPageID script in the
accNav model contains

____________________________________

pageIcon = icon.parentNode.clip();

myXML = new
XML(extXML.firstChild.childNodes[rootIcon.getPageIndex() - pgOffset]);

pageIcon.templateData = myXML.toObject();

rootIcon.setTitleText(templateData.learningObject[0].name);

itemCount = pageIcon.templateData.accNav[0].nestedPage.length);

panelWidth = pageIcon.templateData.accNav[0].panelWidth;

_____________________________________________

This needs re-working to use in a non-template based Xerte project
- unless I am missing a trick here :-)

For example I changed the above to the text below, in an attempt to
get the code to reference back to the Xerte icons rather than an external XML
file supported by a wizard.

_______________________________________________

pageIcon = icon.parentNode.clip();

//myXML = new
XML(extXML.firstChild.childNodes[rootIcon.getPageIndex() - pgOffset]);

//pageIcon.templateData =
myXML.toObject();

//rootIcon.setTitleText(templateData.learningObject[0].name);

//itemCount = pageIcon.templateData.accNav[0].nestedPage.length);

itemCount =
icon.parentNode.findChildNodes('name','protoPane').length;

//panelWidth = pageIcon.templateData.accNav[0].panelWidth;

panelWidth =
icon.parentNode.attributes.panelWidth;

__________________________________________________________

My original question was based on the assumption that the models
might first have been created as Xerte models and then the scripts modified for
use with external xml and a wizard file.

If these .rlms are all that is available then any pointers as to
the easiest way to use them in Xerte without using a template, so that full
scripting capability can be retained, would be welcomed.

Kind regards

Johnathan

Johnathan
Kemp

ICT Development Coordinator

Connexions Staffordshire

www.cxstaffs.co.uk

01785 355714

From:
xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Patrick
Lockley

Sent: 10 September 2009 13:05

To: Xerte discussion list

Subject: RE: [Xerte] Developing xerte models from toolkits .rlm files

Dear "Award winning"
xerte team :)

The RLMs are all in the
download,modules/xerte/parent_templates/Nottingham/models

You can add xerte content on one page
templates.

From:
xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk on behalf of Johnathan Kemp

Sent: Thu 10/09/2009 13:02

To: Xerte discussion list

Subject: [Xerte] Developing xerte models from toolkits .rlm files

Hello
Xerte Team,

Unless
I have failed to understand something, it is not possible to work in Page Templates
and have access to the power of the underlying Xerte icons e.g. for scripting.

To
try and get the best of both worlds I started to reverse engineer a Xerte model
from the accordion .rlm file, loading it into Xerte as a model and then trying to
work my way around all the references to template data etc.

Then
it occurred to me, that perhaps in the initial development of the page
templates perhaps the Xerte models had been created.

So
my question is, does a set of Xerte models exist, equivalent to the set of .rlm
files used by pageTemplates, that would work in Xerte rather than requiring a
related template file? 

If
so, are they available for downloading?

This
could save a lot of time in trying to re-engineer the models from the current .rlm
files.

Kind
regards

Johnathan

Johnathan Kemp

ICT Development Coordinator

Connexions Staffordshire

www.cxstaffs.co.uk

01785
355714

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