[Xerte] Xerte3: on Mac?

[Mark Gray]

I would love to use xerte natively on my mac and I would be happy to contribute some money to help make this possible.

By the way I can't download the xerte3mac.zip as I'm getting 'page not found'. What is this anyway?

Cheers

Mark


On 1 Jul 2010, at 14:21, Peter Huppertz wrote:

>> http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~cczjrt/xerte3mac.zip
> 
> Should this work?
> 
> Two thoughts:
> 1) Are there any other Mac users out there who might want to use Xerte natively on their machine? If so: perhaps we can share the costs for the plugin. I'm pretty sure I'll be able to get some financial help from my boss ...
> 2) I think it is not so easy to just create Xerte as a web application, so we can just use it in a browser?
> 
> 
> 
> On 01.07.2010, at 15:15, Julian Tenney wrote:
> 
>> http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~cczjrt/xerte3mac.zip
>> 
>> We need to buy the mac plugin for zinc ($300), and write some
>> abstraction code for handling the windows / mac specifics (i.e. a wrappr
>> class for doing if (windows then do this else if mac then do this)).
>> I've deliberately kept that code to a minimum so far to make this
>> easy...
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Peter
>> Huppertz
>> Sent: 01 July 2010 14:09
>> To: Xerte discussion list
>> Subject: [Xerte] Xerte3: on Mac?
>> 
>> I really like Xerte3, as you may assumed from my number of posts
>> recently. The only pain is that I have to run it in my virtual machine
>> on my Mac. This makes it extremely slow and, as I already pointed out,
>> it crashes about every 5-10 previews. Do you see any possibility to
>> create a Mac Version? I just tried to open the XerteEditor.swf, which
>> works quite fine. But, sure, I can't load any files ... I guess that's
>> where the Zinc part comes in. Creating a Mac version could be also a
>> great selling point for Xerte, cause most of the e-learning suites out
>> there are Windows only. What do you think?
>> 
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