[Xerte] detect/retrieve url of an LO

Sat Sep 19 20:04:58 BST 2009

Thanks for the suggestion Dave

I did try something like that and just tested again using your suggestion.
When I try that locally I get file:///I:/xerte/test_templates/index.htm
<file:///I:\xerte\test_templates\index.htm>  but online via a toolkits
installation I get null. As Julian suggested I was wanting something like
server.com/toolkits/play_123 and to be honest that's further complicated by
the fact that the QR code and short url are generated at runtime, so even if
I could get this working it might give unpredictable results if the LO is
embedded or played via preview rather than the public url. So in short I've
left it so that the author just adds the public url of the LO or the address
of another site/page when authoring rather than have an option for the url
of the LO to be automatic.

Thanks for your help

Ron

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Dave Burnett
Sent: 19 September 2009 19:32
To: Xerte list
Subject: RE: [Xerte] detect/retrieve url of an LO

Ron, that's why asked if the callJS could talk to the DOM directly.

In the archives I found this posted by Julian:

I added a new function 'callJS(functionName, parameters)' which wraps
Flash's ExternalInterface.call method.
Use it like this:

callJS('myJavascriptFunctionName', 'parameters');

Now, if it is a wrap of the ExternalInterface.call method, which looks like
this:

ExternalInterface.call("window.location.href.toString");

then in your code,

my_location = callJS('window.location.href.toString');

*should* give you the URL location of the page the .rlo (or at least the swf
engine) is executing from.
No need for any extra javascript in the <HEAD>. 

Dave

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From: ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk
To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
Subject: RE: [Xerte] detect/retrieve url of an LO
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 19:03:09 +0100

Hi Julian

As we discussed I really wanted this to work without the need for any
additional javascript so that it could be used via any toolkits installation
so if there is a function in the existing code somewhere please let me know.
As we briefly discussed it would be really good if there was a way of
containing all the code in the models and have those automatically detected
and displayed as page types available. It would make updating and keeping
custom pages in sync much easier.

I've created a simple example of each of the four custom page types I've
adapted and integrated and made them available as a zip too at
http://mitchellmedia.co.uk/?p=230 

Cheers

Ron

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of RonM
Sent: 18 September 2009 09:52
To: 'Xerte discussion list'
Subject: RE: [Xerte] detect/retrieve url of an LO

Yes indeed!       ....?

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 18 September 2009 09:28
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: RE: [Xerte] detect/retrieve url of an LO

I think what you want is the server.com/toolkits/play_123, right?

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Dave Burnett
Sent: Friday, September 18, 2009 12:20 AM
To: Xerte list
Subject: RE: [Xerte] detect/retrieve url of an LO

Can you talk to the DOM directly with callJS?
Maybe just window.location?

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Subject: RE: [Xerte] detect/retrieve url of an LO
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:40:36 -0700
From: Paul.Swanson at harlandfs.com
To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk

You might try a javascript function in the launching web page:

function returnURL() {

    var baseURL = document.URL;

    return baseURL;

}

Then use Xerte's callJS() method to get it.

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 3:29 PM
To: 'Xerte discussion list'
Subject: RE: [Xerte] detect/retrieve url of an LO

Thanks for the suggestion but that doesn't work for what I want. _url comes
close but this may be a question for Pat as what I really want is to
automatically detect, or at least dynamically create, the public url of the
LO. Hopefully Pat will have a suggestion tomorrow.

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Paul Swanson
Sent: 17 September 2009 22:53
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: RE: [Xerte] detect/retrieve url of an LO

FileLocation?

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 2:50 PM
To: 'Xerte discussion list'
Subject: [Xerte] detect/retrieve url of an LO

Hi Pat/Julian

I should probably know this but is there a system variable or functions or
something which automatically contains the url of the LO? 

Cheers

Ron

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