[Xerte] rs.text

Thu Sep 17 14:40:00 BST 2009

Thanks Dave - no the point of this was for the user to be able to paste into
a word document or notepad. I couldn't get <br> or \r \n to work but var1 +
chr(13) + chr(10) + var 2 did the trick. Works when pasting into word or
notepad and the main point was to separate the 3 elements of the page in the
pasted result.

This is a tweak of the existing stimulating question page type in the xerte
online toolkit template - you can see how it works here:
http://mitchellmedia.co.uk/xerte/compareAnswer/ 

Thanks all for the help

Cheers

Ron

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Dave Burnett
Sent: 17 September 2009 13:29
To: Xerte list
Subject: RE: [Xerte] rs.text

In an ASCII sense, yes that will work.
But I don't believe that will render as a <BR> within an HTML interpreter,
if that's what the ultimate goal is.

Dave

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From: ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk
To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
Subject: RE: [Xerte] rs.text
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:07:13 +0100

Ok scrub that - works with chr(13)

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of RonM
Sent: 17 September 2009 12:01
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Subject: RE: [Xerte] rs.text

Hi Julian

Sorry this is probably book 1 day 1 and I'm searching as we speak but I'm
struggling for time. L Now that this bit works I was trying to do
System.setClipboard(myVariable1 + "<br>" + myVariable2); which works in
terms of pasting both vars but doesn't include the break when I paste. Do I
need to use char codes or something instead and if so what do I use to add
carriage returns?

Cheers

Ron

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of RonM
Sent: 17 September 2009 11:30
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Subject: RE: [Xerte] rs.text

Brilliant - thanks!

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 17 September 2009 10:27
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: RE: [Xerte] rs.text

System.setClipboard(myVariable);

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of RonM
Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 10:25 AM
To: 'Xerte discussion list'
Subject: RE: [Xerte] rs.text

Hi Julian

I revisited this template I was working on back in June and got the tracking
working fine thanks. In doing so I seem to remember you have something
built-in to one or more of the controllers to copy sync points to the
clipboard so I wondered if there is a way I can include a button in a page
which when clicked copies some variable text to the clipboard?

Cheers

Ron 

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of RonM
Sent: 15 June 2009 16:20
To: 'Xerte discussion list'
Subject: RE: [Xerte] rs.text

Thanks Julian very helpful as always.

I'll give the array suggestion a try at some point.

I guess I was really asking if all this already existed eg. a print button
and/or a function in some of the existing php code to call and pass the text
info which pops up a link to open or save the file a bit like what happens
now with export creating a zip -  although I know that's not called from an
LO.

Likewise we're able to add carriage returns using the editor so thought it
might be possible when playing the piece too. Again I'll have a look at some
point.

Cheers

Ron

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 15 June 2009 14:31
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: RE: [Xerte] rs.text

1.       I'd initialise an array called tracking:

If (tracking == undefined)

{ 

  Tracking = new Array();

}

And then use the current page index to refernece the data slot:
tracking[rootIcon.currentPage] = 'myInputText';

2.       A) no. But you can do a custom print job. Read up in the Flash
referene for the PrintJob class I think.

B) How will you save the txt file? Getting the text is easy, making a button
is easy, then pass the text thorough to a php file that saves the file?

3.       Dunno. What does the Flash help say on .multiline?

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of RonM
Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 10:39 AM
To: 'Xerte discussion list'
Subject: [Xerte] rs.text

Hi Julian/all

I was asked by a colleague about the stimulating question template and if
there was a version where the user could type a response and then hit the
button to see a pre-prepared exemplar answer. So very similar to the
existing template except with an input textbox. I thought I'm sure I could
quickly tweak/build that and so did, although I struggled to work out how to
use the rs property of the textbox at first. I also wanted the textbox to
retain whatever was entered when the user browses past and then back to that
page which was fine I got that to work too. You can see an example at:
http://mitchellmedia.co.uk/xerte/compareAnswer However the reason for this
message...

1.       I then realised that the way I coded this if another page based on
the template is added to the same LO the answer entered/stored in the first
example is also displayed in the second example. However I can't work out
how to make the rs property name dynamic and so to store and display
different text in however many pages of this type are added?

2.       Also are there existing functions I could use to: 
a) have a print button on the page rather than use the browser print menu
b) have a save this response button - which creates a text file containing
the input text and example answer?
I'm sure these options could be useful in lots of ways.

3.       I vaguely recall this has been asked before - is there a way to
enable carriage returns in the input text box?

Cheers

Ron 

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