[Xerte] text entry interaction with different font colors

Tue Sep 14 11:13:31 BST 2010

I'm new using Xerte, I don't know how to taking the highlighting code
routines from xerte editor. Is there an example where I can see it?

This is an introductory programming course, and in that specific exercise,
the user just need to complete the missing words in the java code. I want to
color the for loop, etc, so the student can easily read the code, just like
in a compiler. So, is not important that the user can interact with
individual words in this exercise, but it would be interesting that student
can click on some words just to get a little help (about for loop, for
example) in a popup window. Its possible to do that on xerte? But this is
another problem :)

2010/9/14 Julian Tenney <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk>

>  I see you are trying to highlight code. Have you thought about taking the
> highlighting code routines from the xerte editor and using those? It’s
> configurable, and it would be easy enough to make a swf component that does
> what you need better than formatting each block. I imagine there is a quite
> a bit of it?
>
>
>
> Is it important that the user can interact with the individual words in the
> code by, say, clicking on them?
>
>
>
> *From:* xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:
> xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of *Bárbara Furtado
> *Sent:* 13 September 2010 18:42
> *To:* Xerte discussion list
> *Subject:* Re: [Xerte] text entry interaction with different font colors
>
>
>
> No, I'm having the same problem with version 2.12, that is the last one
> available on website.
>
> Maybe I'm doing something wrong. The example file is attached in this
> e-mail, so you can see what I'm doing wrong. Before the construction of all
> interaction code, the text displays fine. The problem is when I break text
> apart. Can you help me please? Or send me your example.
>
> Thanks
>
> No dia 13 de Setembro de 2010 17:59, Bárbara Furtado <
> bfurtado at student.dei.uc.pt> escreveu:
>
> I'm using version 2.11. I didn't know about version 2.12... I'll try that
> one.
>
> Thanks
>
> 2010/9/13 Julian Tenney <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk>
>
> I think you might need to update your Xerte because mine displays the
> markup properly.
>
>
>
> *From:* xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:
> xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of *Julian Tenney
> *Sent:* 12 September 2010 22:48
> *To:* Xerte discussion list
>
>
> *Subject:* RE: [Xerte] text entry interaction with different font colors
>
>
>
> no, it splits it on spaces, so you end up with a bunch of words (the WORD
> class - you can then break apart WORDs into characters I grant you).
> MovieClips are then created, and textFields, and their text is set. I must
> be setting.text rather than .htmlText.There might be a good reason, or it
> might be an oversight - I'll play around and see whats going on,
>
>
>
> J
>
>
>  ------------------------------
>
> *From:* xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk on behalf of Dave Burnett
> *Sent:* Sun 12/09/2010 17:39
> *To:* Xerte list
> *Subject:* RE: [Xerte] text entry interaction with different font colors
>
> break apart will break it out as individual characters.
> So my guess is that your html text is also being broken into individual
> characters, so is no longer recognized as tags, it's just characters again
> and defaults to black.
>
> You can set the text properties dynamically with code.
>
> Dave
>  ------------------------------
>
> Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2010 17:30:53 +0100
> Subject: [Xerte] text entry interaction with different font colors
> From: bfurtado at student.dei.uc.pt
> To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>
> Hi,
> I'm probably not explaining well (sorry about my english). I need to make a
> programming exercise with a piece of java code to complete, and I would like
> to put text with different colors. I'm using HTML tags, like this:
>
>   <font color="#0000FF">public static void</font>
> <b><i>main</i></b>(String[] args) {
>    <font color="#999999">//declara um array de inteiros</font>
>    <font color="#0000FF">int</font>[] A = <font color="#0000FF">new
> int</font>[ |3| ];
>
> It works fine in preview, but when I use the code to break the words apart
> ( *w = mainText.breakApart(3,7,false,false);* ), in preview HTML tags
> display as text. Is there another way to do this? Anyone can help?
>
> Thanks a lot. And I'm sorry for the repeated e-mail.
>
> Bárbara Furtado
>
>
> No dia 12 de Setembro de 2010 00:29, Bárbara Furtado <
> bfurtado at student.dei.uc.pt> escreveu:
>
> Hi,
> I have a text entry exercise (interaction), and I need to write text with
> different font colors. When I use <font color="#000000"> example </font> in
> a simple text icon, it works. But when I break text apart with function
> myIcon.breakApart(...) to make the exercise, in preview all text colors
> disappear and shows all the <font> codes, like it was text.
> How can I solve this? I'm using Xerte desktop version.
>
> Thanks,
> Bárbara Furtado
>
>
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