[Xerte] Adding full screenoption tothe FLVvideo/swf/graphiccontrols
Peter Snowball
southman at internode.on.net
Tue Jul 27 14:45:37 BST 2010
Hi Ron
Simply restarted XAMPP and can now see zoom video and volume control as
well as morph images page type
Thanks very much.
For JT Zoom control looks great
Look forward to JK page template
Peter Snowball
Dept Of Economic Development
Tasmania
On 27/07/2010 11:34 PM, Ron Mitchell wrote:
>
> Hi Peter
>
> Copy the USER-FILES folder and possibly import folder too from
> toolkits_old to toolkits and then I think your old LO's should work.
>
> If creating a new project works fine I'm not sure why you aren't
> seeing the volume slider and video zoom icon. Just make sure the
> parent templates directory and XMLEngine.swf in the root are
> up-to-date. If everything is up to date you should also see the new
> Morph Images page type as an option e.g. Media > Morph Images.
>
> Perhaps empty offline files and restart maxos too.
>
> HTH
>
> Ron
>
> *From:* xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of *Peter
> Snowball
> *Sent:* 27 July 2010 14:15
> *To:* Xerte discussion list
> *Subject:* Re: [Xerte] Adding full screenoption tothe
> FLVvideo/swf/graphiccontrols
>
> Thanks Ron
>
> You guessed correctly. When I copied Database.php I realised I was
> accessing the "toolkits" folder rather than the "xertetoolkits"
> folder. So renamed the "toolkits" folder > "toolkits_old" and
> "xertetoolkits" folder > "toolkits".
>
> I then browsed to Localhost\toolkits. The previous projects were
> still there in the list and gave an error if you tried to edit them.
> I created a new project and it worked fine except the controls were
> still the old build. Will I have to create a new database to overcome
> the problem.
>
> current Database.php
>
> *******************
> * @author Patrick Lockley
> * @version 1.0
> * @copyright Copyright (c) 2008,2009 University of Nottingham
> * @package
> */
>
> /*
> * Host where database is
> */
> $xerte_toolkits_site->database_host = "localhost";
>
> /*
> * Username for database
> */
> $xerte_toolkits_site->database_username ="root";
>
> /*
> * Password for database
> */
> $xerte_toolkits_site->database_password ="";
>
> /*
> * Database name
> */
> $xerte_toolkits_site->database_name ="toolkits";
>
> /*
> * Database table prefix
> */
> $xerte_toolkits_site->database_table_prefix ="";
> ?>
>
> ********************************
>
>
> Peter Snowball
> Dept Of Economic Development
> Tasmania
>
>
> On 27/07/2010 10:28 PM, Ron Mitchell wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> Your original post indicated that you were trying to install the
> latest download to a directory named xertetoolkits but that was
> throwing errors. Pat suggested copying database.php and you replied
> that worked. However did you copy the latest version to the toolkits
> rather than xertetoolkits directory? If not and you didn't edit
> database.php I suspect even if you're accessing the xertetoolkits copy
> it's using the database and older files from the original toolkits
> install.
>
> If you tried to update just by replacing the parent template folders
> be sure to also update XMLEngine.swf in the toolkits folder.
>
> HTH
>
> Ron
>
> *From:* xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> <mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>
> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of *Peter
> Snowball
> *Sent:* 27 July 2010 12:47
> *To:* Xerte discussion list
> *Subject:* Re: [Xerte] Adding full screenoption tothe
> FLVvideo/swf/graphiccontrols
>
> Downloaded latest toolkits and updated Maxos151 thanks to Patrick.
> Movie video control ( media> video) still as per original toolkits ie
> no Zoom. Also volume control not showing on interface.
>
> If I search for 'Zoom' under htdocs >toolkits Zoom.png and other
> 'zoom' Swf files are found so update to toolkits is there its just
> not being referenced ??
>
> Location of Zoom files in downloaded toolkits :
>
> E:\xampp\htdocs\toolkits\modules\xerte\parent_templates\Nottingham\common
> E:\xampp\htdocs\toolkits\modules\xerte\parent_templates\mediaInteractions\common
>
> Is there a simple mod to a PHP file which will access the latest build ?
>
>
>
> Peter Snowball
> Dept Of Economic Development
> Tasmania
>
>
> On 21/07/2010 9:40 AM, Peter Snowball wrote:
>
> Thanks Jonathan
>
> I use the page wizards almost exclusively so will wait until the new
> release. I the meantime I will have a look at page templates project.
>
> Regards
>
> Peter
>
> *Peter Snowball
> *Department of Economic Development, Tourism and the Arts
>
> Tasmania
>
> *From:* xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> <mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>
> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of *Kemp
> Johnathan
> *Sent:* Tuesday, 20 July 2010 11:57 PM
> *To:* Xerte discussion list
> *Subject:* Re: [Xerte] Adding full screenoption tothe
> FLVvideo/swf/graphiccontrols
>
> If there have been changes to a .rlm file then this will refer to the
> .rlm file used by the video page that is part of the page templates
> project wide template. This file is not interchangeable with the .rlm
> file used in the equivalent page wizard.
>
> I am busy with a music exam this week, but will be looking at the new
> release of Xerte in the near future so that I can check for changes to
> any .rlm files and incorporate those changes in the .rlm files used by
> the page wizards. I believe there may also be a new page so I will be
> looking to create a wizard for that at the same time. So if you are a
> user of page wizards, no worries, there will just be a brief delay
> until I can bring the page wizards up to date with the new changes.
>
> In the mean time if you want to view the changes that Julian has made
> to the video player you will need to create a new xerte project based
> on the page templates project wide template and then add the video
> page to your project, from the list of pages made available by the
> page templates project wide template.
>
> Kind regards
>
> Johnathan
>
> On 20 July 2010 14:13, Peter Snowball <southman at internode.on.net
> <mailto:southman at internode.on.net>> wrote:
>
> A bit lost I'm afraid and I am not sure I really know what I am
> doing. However made a new project - used a text video page wizard and
> replaced _textvideo.rlm dated 6/10/2009 with textvideo.rlm dated
> 19/7/2010 (added underscore) from page templates in xerte 2.12 - to no
> avail.
>
> likewise new project with movie page similar result - but no
> textvideo.rlm in pr0ject folder ?
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Peter Snowball
> Dept Of Economic Development
> Tasmania
>
> On 20/07/2010 9:46 PM, Julian Tenney wrote:
>
> Create a new project? OR swap the textVideo.rlm for the new one?
>
> *From:* xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> <mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>
> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of *Peter
> Snowball
> *Sent:* 20 July 2010 12:20
> *To:* Xerte discussion list
> *Subject:* Re: [Xerte] Adding full screenoption tothe
> FLVvideo/swf/graphiccontrols
>
> Have downloaded standalone player says 2.12 - added movie flv but
> video control appears the same as in 2.11 ie no full screen toggle
> option. Am I looking in the right place?
>
>
>
> Peter Snowball
> Dept Of Economic Development
> Tasmania
>
>
> On 20/07/2010 7:20 PM, Julian Tenney wrote:
>
> Its in the toolkits zip file, or in the standalone Xerte build on the
> website,
>
> *From:* xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> <mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>
> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of *Peter
> Snowball
> *Sent:* 20 July 2010 10:19
> *To:* Xerte discussion list
> *Subject:* Re: [Xerte] Adding full screen option tothe
> FLVvideo/swf/graphiccontrols
>
> This looks great. Where can I download it to try.
>
>
>
> Peter Snowball
> Dept Of Economic Development
> Tasmania
>
>
> On 20/07/2010 5:14 AM, Julian Tenney wrote:
>
> This is the .flv page, not the .swf. You can download it now, I built
> everything before I left work,
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> *From:* xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> <mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> on behalf of Kemp Johnathan
> *Sent:* Mon 19/07/2010 18:56
> *To:* Xerte discussion list
> *Subject:* Re: [Xerte] Adding full screen option to the
> FLVvideo/swf/graphiccontrols
>
> That looks really useful.
>
> Would this be configurable so that the zoom button could be hidden by
> setting a parameter?
>
> I am just thinking of Wink based videos where the display size has to
> be set. I am not sure how they would respond to being zoomed.
>
> Once this feature is available in a download-able version of Xerte I
> will try it out with a Wink based swf and let you know the results.
>
> Kind regards
>
> Johnathan
>
> On 16 July 2010 13:51, Julian Tenney <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk
> <mailto:Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk>> wrote:
>
> With a toggle button like the youtube one? Ought to be possible, yes,
>
> *From:* xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> <mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>
> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> <mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>] *On Behalf Of *Peter
> Snowball
> *Sent:* 16 July 2010 13:25
> *To:* Xerte discussion list
> *Subject:* Re: [Xerte] Adding full screen option to the FLV
> video/swf/graphiccontrols
>
> with screen shots
>
> Peter Snowball
> Dept Of Economic Development
> Tasmania
>
>
> On 16/07/2010 10:18 PM, Peter Snowball wrote:
>
> A bit of a wish list item. However is it possible or easy to add a
> full screen option that sizes to the stage to the FLV
> video/swf/graphic controls similar to the embedded Utube player.
>
> *Error! Filename not specified.*
>
> *Error! Filename not specified.*
>
>
>
> --
> Peter Snowball
> Dept Of Economic Development
> Tasmania
>
>
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