[Xerte] Xerte 3 issues

[Kemp Johnathan]

During my recent experiments with using Xerte 3 - mainly based on opening
the examples that Julian has created, looking at how they work and tinkering
with them, I have come across a few potential issues.

1. Loss of property window - clicking left button of top right pair
resulting in closure of property window with no way to get it back other
than to close xerte 3 and re-open. This does not happen all the time but
when it does the only way out is to close down Xerte and re-open it.
2. Is it a good idea to have the learning object auto preview on loading -
could a bug in the code cause Xerte to crash, putting you in a loop that
every time you opened the project Xerte would crash as you could not open
the project without it running, and hence could never fix the bug. e.g. an
incorrect template data path.
3. Are many of the current effect icons likely to change as a result of Flex
4 introducing the spark.effects. based classes which use different names
than the original event e.g.spark.effects.AnimateFilter class for blur,
spark.effects.Animate instead of tween.
4. In the effects.x30 sample project what icon has been used to create the
rotate? The icon image suggests a blur effect icon, but the properties do
not match up with the properties of a blur effect icon. So if you wanted to
duplicate the rotation around the vertical axis effect in a project with the
current set of icons how would you do it?
5. basicTemplate.x3o does not work. The wizard's form elements are not
displayed and the default data e.g. text does not display.
6. No prompt to save project if you try to close Xerte 3 (does it save
automatically?).

Kind regards

Johnathan
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