FW: [Xerte] Onscreen positioning of objects

[Dave Burnett]

Found it.

Something to do with transitions.
If I remove the transition from the page that target icons are attached to, no flashing behaviour.

That helps. I guess I can add the transitions back in before packaging.

Dave


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> From: d_b_burnett at hotmail.com
> To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> Subject: FW: [Xerte] Onscreen positioning of objects
> Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 13:39:15 -0500
>
>
>
> I'm building a plain dummy file and so far this seems to happen:
>
> Shift F5 - single execution
> Control F5 - double execution
> Shift+Control F5 - double execution
>
> But in any case, it seems to flow to the right spot, stop and highlight the correct target.
>
> On my piece, Shift F5 works as expected, but I have to move through the whole piece to get to the target.
>
> Any combination with the Control key sends it into the flashing loop.
>
> How do I halt the engine's reading/execution of the flow line again?
> I think something being encountered further down the flow is what is causing it and I would like to isolate it, but not by rebuilding the whole thing 1 icon at a time. :-/
>
>
>
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>> From: d_b_burnett at hotmail.com
>> To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>> Subject: FW: [Xerte] Onscreen positioning of objects
>> Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 12:04:02 -0500
>>
>>
>> More info.
>> Narrowing it down to the chunk below:
>>> LO
>> IF
>> PG
>> SCR
>>
>> SCR
>>
>> SCR
>>
>> SCR
>>
>> DIS
>>
>>
>>
>> If I run normal, the debug is thus:
>>
>> wipe('in', 2, 'None', 'easeNone', 2);
>> Executing uservars calc
>> Executing mylocation_path
>> Executing read_tutor_file
>>
>> If I spec that DIS and CONT^SHFT^F5 then I get this debug:
>>
>> wipe('in', 2, 'None', 'easeNone', 2);
>> Executing uservars calc
>> Executing mylocation_path
>> Executing read_tutor_file
>> wipe('in', 2, 'None', 'easeNone', 2);
>> Executing uservars calc
>> Executing mylocation_path
>> Executing read_tutor_file
>>
>>
>> I.e. it is running from the top twice for some reason, then it goes into some sort of flashing loop (which does not throw any debug statements).
>>
>> Should it be executing twice when edit/jump to is called?
>>
>>
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>>> From: d_b_burnett at hotmail.com
>>> To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>>> Subject: RE: [Xerte] Onscreen positioning of objects
>>> Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 09:40:26 -0500
>>>
>>>
>>> Maybe my architecture is funky or something.
>>>
>>> What's really bogging me down is this:
>>>
>>> If I use CTRL-SHIFT-F5 by the description I should jump to the page selected in the tree in edit mode.
>>>
>>> But If I try to get to a display page in PG1 or PG2 of this setup, the flow gets there, but even though the graphic never appears, the outline/dimension box is there, flashing at a very high rate. If I try to click on that, I invariably grab the background, so I'm back to square 1.
>>>
>>> LO
>> IF
>> PG
>> SCR
>> SCR
>> SCR
>> SCR
>> DIS
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> FW
>>> PG
>>> FW
>>> PG1
>>> PG2
>>> PG3
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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