[Xerte] xerte desktop 2 - accessing the rootIcon from a flash wrapper

[Julian Tenney]

The trouble is you need to wait until the .rlo has loaded into your swf, then loaded its xml, then finished parsing. That's tricky because until it's done all that there isn't anything to hang an event handler on from the parent. Best thing would be if the engine, once set up and initialised could call back to the parent and say 'I'm done - we're good to go.

Lines 654 onwards in frame2 of the engine are where all the action starts. The contentXML has already been loaded by the preloader (i.e. your wrapper). You might also want to see what the preloader does - I'd base any code on the code in there to load a new engine up.

Alternatively, find a way of getting the rlo itself to navigate, from Xerte code: so, pass in variable and have a script in the .rlo say

If (_level0.myFlagExists)
{
  //navigate. Much easier this way.
}

Do you need an engine solution, or can you handle it on the Xerte side of things?

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Mary Ann Ahearn
Sent: 02 December 2010 18:03
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: Re: [Xerte] xerte desktop 2 - accessing the rootIcon from a flash wrapper

Oops!

Just looked over what I originally sent and see that it's not correct -

I'm loading the movie with the following (don't know how that '._parent' got in there):

this.attachMovie('Xerte', 'myRLO', 0).init('Lesson3.rlo', 230, 80, 1020, 640);


Trying to find the correct syntax to tell the rootIcon to go to page 5.

On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Patrick Lockley <Patrick.Lockley at nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:Patrick.Lockley at nottingham.ac.uk>> wrote:
Try doing a for each look on _level0.myRLO that usually brings up the name - Julian will have a better answer though :)

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>] On Behalf Of Mary Ann Ahearn
Sent: 02 December 2010 17:43
To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>
Subject: [Xerte] xerte desktop 2 - accessing the rootIcon from a flash wrapper

Okay, so here's my new flash wrapper conundrum.

I want to load a xerte learning object and send it to the last page.

Loading the rlo file in our flash wrapper:
        this._parent.attachMovie('Xerte', 'myRLO', 0).init('Lesson3.rlo', 230, 80, 1020, 640);

Creates the following movieClip:
_level0.myRLO

Tried variations on the following with no luck.
_level0.myRLO.engine.IFC.gotoPage(5);

Tried various ways of inserting rootIcon in there with no luck either.

Is this not doable or have I just got the syntax wrong?

Thanks!!
ma


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