[Xerte] Advanced Hotspots Template

Tue Mar 16 16:11:00 GMT 2010

See the example for the changes I've made so far...

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/toolkits/play_1955

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Alistair
McNaught
Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2010 4:04 PM
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: RE: [Xerte] Advanced Hotspots Template

>When tabbing to a shape in the draw, you'd like the irrgular shape to
highlight, instead of - or as well as - the usual bounding rectangle?
Then space to select it? That works for the hotspots / show me types.

Ideally the irregular shape would highlight then space to select but if
that's very tricky to do the bounding rectangle would be next best. Do
you agree EA?

A

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 15 March 2010 21:31
To: ea at emptech.info; Xerte discussion list
Subject: RE: [Xerte] Advanced Hotspots Template

Good catch - that's easy to put straight. I have a few ideas about
adding the keyboard selection to the other activities, but the labelling
one is going to be very difficult - how to move the pin / label? Arrow
keys? That gets tricky - when to trigger a drop? This doesn't use
Xerte's usual targetAreas for the inbuilt dnd accessibility, so need to
add support to the draw's shapes for onSetFocus etc.

When tabbing to a shape in the draw, you'd like the irrgular shape to
highlight, instead of - or as well as - the usual bounding rectangle?
Then space to select it? That works for the hotspots / show me types.

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From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk on behalf of E.A. Draffan
Sent: Mon 15/03/2010 20:53
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Subject: RE: [Xerte] Advanced Hotspots Template

Sorry to add to the accessibility woes but when you use this template in
IE and FF in High Contrast 2  the text is rendered invisible. 

Best wishes E.A. 

Mrs E.A. Draffan

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From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Alistair
McNaught
Sent: 15 March 2010 17:55
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Subject: RE: [Xerte] Advanced Hotspots Template

It's nice having the non standard shapes but it lacks the keyboard
accessibility that sets the existing template apart from other content
creation tools. As a non-mouse user I'd be completely left out of this.
Is the keyboard access going to be added? If not I'd argue strongly that
this shouldn't supplement the existing one - maybe replace it with a
warning attached...

A

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 15 March 2010 16:53
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: [Xerte] Advanced Hotspots Template

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/toolkits/play_1955

Is an example of a new page type in toolkits: Advanced Hotspots. It
allows three different types of interactivity to be driven from a
drawing, so you can define hotspots as irregular shapes rather than
simple rectangles. Import an image, draw your hot spots, fill in the
info and away you go.

See the examples: you can define groups of shapes; you can control the
highlight colour and width, and then choose from either Hotspots,
Labels, or Show Me as the interactivity. It's been designed for use
teaching anatomy, but might be of use for all sorts of things:

Wizard:

<https://owa.nottingham.ac.uk/exchange/cczjrt/Drafts/RE:%20%5bXerte%5d%2
0Advanced%20Hotspots%20Template.EML/1_multipart/image001.jpg> 

Drawing Editor (import a picture, draw hotspots over the top)

<https://owa.nottingham.ac.uk/exchange/cczjrt/Drafts/RE:%20%5bXerte%5d%2
0Advanced%20Hotspots%20Template.EML/1_multipart/image002.jpg> 

Results: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/toolkits/play_1955

I'll update the zip at some point. We have a few other things going on
that we'd like to put into an updated toolkits zip sometime soon, so
might be an idea to drop them all in together, and make sure everything
is updated to current files.

J

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Nigel Irwin
Sent: Monday, March 15, 2010 4:43 PM
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: RE: [Xerte] Synched Video template

Thanks will play with that

Regards, Nigel 
IT Training and Support Co-ordinator 

01444 884906

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From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 15 March 2010 16:35
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: RE: [Xerte] Synched Video template

When you preview the video from the wizard, press pause when you reach a
synch point.

The position (in seconds ) is put on your clipboard.

Paste it from there into the synchPoint field of the nest page.

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Nigel Irwin
Sent: Monday, March 15, 2010 4:26 PM
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Subject: RE: [Xerte] Synched Video template

Hi, Jumping on the badnwagon briefly, how do you determine the sync
points in synchronised videos? There dosent seem to be much if any
documentation on this type of page.

Regards, Nigel 
IT Training and Support Co-ordinator 

01444 884906

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From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 15 March 2010 16:10
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: RE: [Xerte] Synched Video template

Replace your videoSynch.rlm with the one attached.

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Adam Read
Sent: Monday, March 15, 2010 4:04 PM
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Subject: RE: [Xerte] Synched Video template

Yes that would be superb! 

This is what I call customer service! I hope they're paying you a
fortune up there in Sherwood...

Much appreciated

Adam

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 15 March 2010 15:57
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: RE: [Xerte] Synched Video template

OK, so it I make it so the image scales to fit the box if erase = true
that would work for you?

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Adam Read
Sent: Monday, March 15, 2010 3:53 PM
To: 'Xerte discussion list'
Subject: RE: [Xerte] Synched Video template

Yes using with Erase = False is definitely the best option for images.
If that becomes the case perhaps a note explaining that images will only
show when using the erase option would be needed/useful?

I suppose images would auto scale to fit the box too?

I'm thinking of how I can steer staff away from using MS Producer
(synced video/audio with PPT slides) so being able to sync pics would
defo help.

Thanks

Adam

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 15 March 2010 15:46
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: RE: [Xerte] Synched Video template

I don't think it was ever intended to work with that use of a nested
page. I used nested pages as a convenient 'child' as they are comaptible
with the other page types that take them - but there isn't any code in
the synched video model to do anything with them...

It would be easy enough to add some support for them. How would this
best work? If you hae erase = true, then it's easy enough - they can go
in the space below the text; if erase = false, then space is going to be
limited as the text boxes tile down the screen.

What do you think?

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Adam Read
Sent: Monday, March 15, 2010 3:38 PM
To: 'Xerte discussion list'
Subject: [Xerte] Synched Video template

Hi Gurus

I'm playing around with the 'Synched Video' page template in XOT but am
having a bit of trouble using the 'image optional property'. I've
specified the image location and it previews fine, however it doesn't
appear when previewing the LO. Any ideas? I've checked and it is
definitely sitting in the USER FILES folder on server.

FYI I'm using an uploaded flash video and text is appearing in time with
sync points.

<https://owa.nottingham.ac.uk/exchange/cczjrt/Drafts/RE:%20%5bXerte%5d%2
0Advanced%20Hotspots%20Template.EML/1_multipart/image003.jpg> 

<https://owa.nottingham.ac.uk/exchange/cczjrt/Drafts/RE:%20%5bXerte%5d%2
0Advanced%20Hotspots%20Template.EML/1_multipart/image004.jpg> 

Thanks

Adam 

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University College Plymouth St Mark & St John is a registered charity
the trustee of which is a company limited by guarantee registered in
England No. 986239

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Derriford Road   Plymouth  PL6 8BH

Phone 01752 636700   Web  marjon.ac.uk

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