[Xerte] Video in a gap fill

[Simon Barne]

Thank you for the tip about adding the video directly to the gap fill, which
I have now managed to do.

I previously added it to an entry frame so that the same movie could be used
for successive gap fills, which seem to need to be quite small. I used three
gap fills for a 2-minute video clip of 300 spoken words. Larger gap fills
take a while to load and they do not automatically scroll. 

Does anyone know how to add scrollbars to a gap fill? Adding the property
"scrolling:1" to the passage icon puts a scrollbar button at the top right
of the panel, but the text still overflows at the bottom.



From: Kemp Johnathan [mailto:johnathan.kemp at ntlworld.com] 
Sent: 20 December 2010 6:27 PM
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: Re: [Xerte] Video in a gap fill

If you add the movie to the entry frame then you will have that movie
displaying on every page of the Framework as the content of an entry frame
is displayed on all subsequent pages of the container in which it is used.
Entry frames are often used to provide customised navigation for a framework
for example.

However since you know how to add movie to an Entry frame, you could open
the structure of the gap fill page and add the movie to the gap fill page's
structure. Then the movie would only display in the gap fill page and not
display in any of the other pages you might have in the framework. After all
if you are only having one page in the Framework then why use a Framework?

One of the nice features of Page Wizards is that they expose their structure
so that you can learn more about how they work and modify them. You could
even use them to create a new page wizard e.g. a Gap Fill page that included
a movie. 

Remember that when a page is created using a Page Wizard, the .rlm file in
the Page's folder is only used to generate the page's initial structure. If
you change the page structure, e.g. by adding new icons to the page's
structure the .rlm file will remain unchanged. To bring your changes into a
new wizard you would need to save the modified page's structure as a model
file and use this .rlm file as the basis for your new model.

If you have any questions about modifying Page Wizards just post them and I
will do my best to help.

Kind regards

Johnathan

On 18 December 2010 21:36, Simon Barne <simonbarne at gmail.com> wrote:
I may as well answer my own question. This method uses Xerte 2 and the page
wizards on the wiki:

1. Install the page wizards.
2. Add a framework to a page.
3. Add an entry frame to the framework.
4. Add a movie to the entry frame.
5. Using the page wizards (Templates > Interactivity > Gap Fill), add a gap
fill to the framework.

And Bob's your uncle. If anyone knows a better way, please tell.


-----Original Message-----
From: Simon Barne [mailto:simonbarne at gmail.com]
Sent: 15 December 2010 2:27 PM
To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
Subject: [Xerte] Video in a gap fill

Is there a simple way of including a video on the same page as a gap-fill
interaction?




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