[Xerte] Xerte3: on Mac?

[Peter Huppertz]

wow, that's impressive. I just asked some minutes ago - and here we go.

The piece loads fine and all the icons/properties/the tree/menu looks as known form the Windows version. 

I can also save the file without problems.

The only (major) thing that does not work for me is the preview. It just displays the typical broken image icon. 

I guess we have to take a look at the PreviewLoader.as/PreviewWindow.as. I have FlashDevelop installed, but have no experience with Zinc. Perhaps you can give some hints?


On 01.07.2010, at 16:04, Julian Tenney wrote:

> Try this one instead:
> 
> http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~cczjrt/macX3.zip
> 
> We just ran it on the Mac (crikey, how do you work those things?) in our
> graphics studio, and it works, Pat will send some pics in a minute.
> There's a few things to sort out. Maybe you guys can look in the code
> and tell me what needs to change?
> 
> J
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Mark Gray
> Sent: 01 July 2010 14:39
> To: Xerte discussion list
> Subject: Re: [Xerte] Xerte3: on Mac?
> 
> 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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Basel Institute on Governance
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