[Xerte] missing Xerte docs on flash interaction

[Julian Tenney]

1.       The code in your swf can call xerte functions: so you can call
_level0.engine.setValue() to communicate with the LMS directly from the
SWF.

2.       Yes. Always good practice.

3.       It's up to you to build the interface how you want it. That SWF
will need to get data from the .rlo file, probably, to create a list of
pages for example. You can either send this data into a component icon,
which loads your swf using the initObject parameter (best) or access the
data directly from the SWF (try
debug(_level0.engine.myIconID.XMLElement) for the raw data.

4.       The xerte runtime is only 141KB, so I'd just include it all.
Otherwise you need to edit XMLEngine.fla which you can get in the google
code repository.

 

HTH. Fire away with more specific questions.

 

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[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of
Mattia.Galli at mottaonline.it
Sent: Friday, February 05, 2010 2:50 PM
To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
Subject: [Xerte] missing Xerte docs on flash interaction

 


Hello, 
this is my fist help post, I need some infos, examples or tutorial on
how to do somemore complex things in Xerte, I am using the editor and
not the toolkits. 

1)I would need to use a blank page and insert in it a flash movie I did.
I need this flash movie has his own interaction and at the end I got a
button. I want this button to communicate to moodle with SCORM that it
has to write the exercise as complete. I found how to not load the main
interface on the documentation what I really need is how I can access to
flash ID items and get them to send command to Xerte. I also need to
change dimension of the movie, is there a way or I have to edit the HTML
directly? 

2)If I have my file in flash I read that Xerte takes the _root place,
does it means that I have to avoid _root.something calls? If so do I
have to change them all with some _parent.something calls? 

3)I would like to have a custom interface and I lack of a lot of infos
about that: I found the template .FLA in the folders but it seems to
lack of components like the font menus, colors and so on. I would prefer
to build a rigid interface with my bottons to go back an forward an
maybe just a bar to show the point the student is at the moment. 
My company does not plan for now to use speaking capability nor font
customization (but I saw that I can save a font preference for texts, so
in theory if I don't have any way to personalize them I would see just
my font). How I can get rid of what I don't need and how to keep things
in the place I want? What classes do I need to include/use? 

I used already Xerte to do simple things, test and intereactions and it
works on my company project, now they would like to use it if we can
find out how to do this complex comunications and custiomizations. This
would be easier for us because we are not SCORM developer, but good
flash developer that is the main language Xerte uses. 
Thank you for all the help you can give me. 

Mattia

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