[Xerte] templatePath problem in Page Templates with Desktop Xerte 2

[Mary Ann Ahearn]

Thanks, Dave & Julian, we'll play around and see what happens.

ma

On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 5:54 AM, Julian Tenney <
Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:

>  Right at the top of the engine code is this:
>
>
>
> var FileLocation = _level0.FileLocation;
>
> var templatePath = _level0.templatePath;
>
> if (templatePath == undefined){
>
>                 templatePath = FileLocation;
>
> }
>
>
>
> i.e. if templatePath is passed in from the html page (as below), it uses
> that path, otherwise it should be the same path as fileLocation.
>
>
>
> Try assigning a flashvar templatePath in your javascript and passing it
> into the movie.
>
>
>
> *From:* xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:
> xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of *Dave Burnett
> *Sent:* 08 November 2010 22:11
> *To:* Xerte list
> *Subject:* RE: [Xerte] templatePath problem in Page Templates with Desktop
> Xerte 2
>
>
>
>
> This is all highly un-researched, just indirect references I found in the
> archives:
>
>
> "You need to distinquish between template path and FileLocation when
> running in toolkits, as the two locations are different.
> FileLocation is the folder where the xml file is; templatePath is the
> folder where the rlt is.
> Locally, the two are the same."
>
> I did a search in a local copy of XOT and found this in rloObject.js:
>
> var templatePath = rloFile.substr(0, rloFile.lastIndexOf('/') + 1);
> ================
>
> I'm guessing .rloFile refers to the domain path to the .rlo on the server.
>
> So my shot in the dark is you have to make sure templatePath is pointing to
> the folder where your .rlt is located (not the .rlo), as it looks like it
> defaults to above).
>
>
> Dave
>
>
>
>  ------------------------------
>
> From: maryann at moberg.com
> Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2010 16:36:10 -0500
> To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> Subject: [Xerte] templatePath problem in Page Templates with Desktop Xerte
> 2
>
> We've been using the page wizards to create learning objects that we then
> load into a flash wrapper application that creates a menu of them so that
> the user can select them as desired.
>
> Everything works fine with the wizard created pages when run directly in
> the browser.
>
> All xerte pages that are created by hand rather than by page templates work
> fine when run in our wrapper and also when published and run on their own in
> a browser.
>
> The problem comes when we run an rlo file containing wizard-created pages
> from our flash wrapper - it can't seem to resolve "templatePath" in order to
> find the panel.swf that I reference.
>
> We can't find where templatePath is being assigned.  Looked around on the
> wiki page the source for xerte.swf but couldn't find it.
>
>
> Here's the line from the one of the page template rlm files:
>         <DIS tabIndex="-1" id="panel" name="panel" x="-300" y="20"
> type="ext" url="templatePath + 'common/whitePanel.swf'"><![CDATA[]]></DIS>
>
>
> Tried substituting "fileLocation" for it but that didn't work.
>
>
> What did work is just removing "templatePath"  from the url like this:
>         <DIS tabIndex="-1" id="panel" name="panel" x="-300" y="20"
> type="ext" url="'common/whitePanel.swf'"><![CDATA[]]></DIS>
>
>
> Here's how we're loading the rlo file in our flash wrapper:
>         this._parent.attachMovie('Xerte', 'myRLO', 0).init('DABB.rlo', 230,
> 80, 1020, 640);
>
>
> In short, we've figured out a way to edit the rlo files so that they work
> in our wrapper but then they don't work outside of it.
>
> Hoping there's a way to get the same file to work in both situations.
>
> Thanks!!
> ma
>
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