[Xerte] Xerte3: on Mac?

Thu Jul 1 15:32:00 BST 2010

Perhaps some usability issues, like there is no delete key on my mac, so perhaps backspace should delete an icon ... and also, I just had brief look, haven't tried e.g. to compile a stylesheet. But inserted, moved, etc a couple of icons, saved the piece. I can't get my piece to load in my Mac Browsers, but perhaps this is a swfObject issue I'll have a look at later.

Xerte.swf is located in the same folder as my x3o, yes.

On 01.07.2010, at 16:24, Julian Tenney wrote:

> Does everything else work?
> 
> Really?
> 
> I also noticed the preview thing - something is wrong with the path - is
> Xerte.swf in the folder the file is in?
> 
> -----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 15:21
> To: Xerte discussion list
> Subject: Re: [Xerte] Xerte3: on Mac?
> 
> 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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