[Xerte] Mixed case dependencies

[Brydges, Stephen]

'What you are doing is asking for trouble.'

 

I appreciate that, but I'm stuck between the rock and hard place. For my
pilot project I can install on any convenient webserver, because
this_one is for external students (and I therefore need to build my own
thin layers of authentication and storage of user input), but what I'm
really interested in is exploring whether Xerte could be a good addition
to our own bespoke web architecture. 

For historical reasons, this converts any uploaded files to lower case.
To persuade the developers to adjust this, I'd need to make a compelling
use-case, and there's nothing more compelling than a practical
demonstration which would show how Xerte could add value (in terms of
page level interactivity, and the workflow of academic end-user using
templates that can be mixed with sophisticated interactivity provided by
a specialist) into our own environment. 

So I think some short term hacks are a reasonable investment (I'm hoping
they stop at re-compiling MainPreloader.fla.)

 

Absolutely no criticism intended (I'm getting to like Xerte more and
more) but would it be a better design if there were no absolute
dependencies on filenames? That's not particularly for our own,
admittedly very odd situation, but if anyone deployed multiple xerte
learning objects, wouldn't it make sense to have just a single set of
MainPreloader.swf/ rloObject.js/ XMLEngine.swf etc. that might be housed
in a root directory where path and filenames were kept in an ini file or
parameter to the swf?

 

Best wishes,

Steve

 

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 17 March 2010 15:34
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: RE: [Xerte] Mixed case dependencies

 

It's loaded from MainPreloader.swf.

 

What you are doing is asking for trouble.

 

 

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Brydges,
Stephen
Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 2:46 PM
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: [Xerte] Mixed case dependencies

 

I am trying to work within an web publishing environment that insists on
renaming files to convert spaces to underscores and mixed/uppercase to
lowercase. :-(

 

I'm trying to see if it it possible to change the published Xerte files
to conform to that restriction. I can rename:

rloObject.js (called within the index.htm)

whitePanel.swf (called within the .rlo, which is editable xml)

MainPreloader.swf (called within rloObject.js which is editable)

 

But I also have a XMLEngine.swf - where does that get called from?

 

It is only filenames that are restricted. Mixed case variable names are
no problem.

 

Thanks,

Steve

 

 

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