[Xerte] XOT iSpring free

[Peter Snowball]

Hi All.
We have used ispring (pro) successfully but only as a simple SWF conversion of slides with animation - removed all the slide navigation etc that comes with Ispring.  In our experience the full screen issues seem to be a combination of operating system,  browser and Ispring.  We changed from Ispring to Xerte because of better video control - we have now built a custom frame work (based on page wizards) that in many ways is better than Ispring.  So now only using Ispring for PPT slides with animation otherwise we use print2flash.

We trialled Xerte on a vista machine +  IE 8  and Xerte looked great - but  nearly went mad when viewed on XP + IE 7  (standard gov environment) - lost screen size control as reported in this thread and though something was wrong.  The problem is not entirely limited to Ispring - from memory this has also happened with wink files and open office saved as SWF etc.  I have duplicated I spring behaviour on several XP machines  - but generally behaviour on Vista is Ok .  To demonstrated the capability of Xerte I use my Vista machine and display size control is generally OK .  There is a strong possibility that Windows 7 + later version of IE and Firefox etc  may go a long way to fixing this issue.  So may be a legacy issue with XP and or old browsers ??

I am sure I posted my operating system + browser trial (WIN XP  & Vista with IE, Firefox, chrome, opera etc) on the forum under a different threat (to the one below)  but can't find it.    Finally we removed the screen size control from RLO with script  for our XP machines.  See original post from earlier this year.

[Xerte] Ispring SWF - full screen issues <http://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/pipermail/xerte/2010-January/003873.html>

Hope this helps

Peter Snowball
Department of Economic Development, Tourism and the Arts *  22 Elizabeth St, Hobart, Tasmania 7000

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: Friday, 22 October 2010 2:21 AM
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: RE: [Xerte] XOT iSpring free

It happens for me as well, so yes, it's a problem.

I'm not sure what the answer is at the moment,

J

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Patrick Lockley
Sent: 21 October 2010 16:00
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: RE: [Xerte] XOT iSpring free

I only get trouble on big text sizes?

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Ron Mitchell
Sent: 21 October 2010 15:57
To: 'Xerte discussion list'
Subject: [Xerte] XOT iSpring free

Hi Julian/all
in prep for some training tomorrow I was just doing some tests with the XOT iSpring page and discovered something I hadn't noticed before. This appears to be a problem with the iSpring free option rather than iSpring Pro but obviously it's the free version that most people use - at least at first.

The problem is when the LO is set to full screen or fill window. Here's an example http://mitchellmedia.co.uk/moodle/xertetoolkits/play.php?template_id=141

The first two pages contain a ppt exported from the latest trial version of iSpring Pro with two different output settings. These both work fine regardless of the display mode. However page 3 contains ispringfree output which is fine at default screen size but set to full screen or fill window and advance the presentation and on my laptop at least the presentation displays too large and the lower LO navigation is lost. If the LO is set to full screen or fill window by default the presentation is too large instantly but with it set to default you have to advance the presentation on page 3 to see the problem.

So two questions:

1. Does this happen to you too?

2. Is there a tweak to the ispringfree code that would prevent this?

Cheers
Ron


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