[Xerte] Re: Narration oddness (Wizards)

[Kemp Johnathan]

I have now tested narration performance for a few pages based on Page
Wizards and the only problem I have found with narration is that narration
will not auto play on page load when using Opera 11.10.

Hence I am unable to duplicate the issues that you have described.


*Details of the test*

I created a simple test project consisting of a desktop xerte project, with
an Entry Frame, a title page, a summary page, a dialog page and a gapfill
page. Each page being generated from the latest version of the Page Wizard.
I have modified slightly the Title Page, Summary Page and Dialogue Pages by
adding the line nar.play(); to force narration to auto run on page load.

rootIcon.broadcast('showAudio');
nar.play();

I tested the project by previewing it in Xerte, and by publishing it and
then viewing it in Internet Explorer V8 64 bit and Opera 11.10 . The test
consisted of navigating through the pages in order using the next arrow
button, and then using the previous arrow button to back track through the
project. Finally I moved backwards and forwards between pages. I also used
the menu button to select pages in sequences that selected pages that were
not next to each other.

Narration played automatically on every page whichever way it was accessed
in both Preview and Internet Explorer. Auto play failed in Opera,
occasionally the narration would start to play and then stop almost as soon
as it had started. However clicking the narration play button always
resulted in the narration playing.

In all viewing environments, for all pages, whatever the route to the page
the narration bar was displayed on the page and the play button responded
when clicked on by playing the narration file.

I then removed the nar.play(); line and tested again. Other than pages that
had nar.play() removed no longer auto playing the narration on page load the
test results were consistent with the first batch of tests.

Kind regards

Johnathan



On 25 April 2011 12:04, Kemp Johnathan <johnathan.kemp at ntlworld.com> wrote:

> I think Julian may be issuing a new version of Xerte to bring the project
> templates up to date with the impending update to Online Toolkits in the
> near future.
>
> There are likely to be some significant changes to Page Wizards as I think
> I have found a way for Page Wizards and PageTemplates to share a set of
> common .rlm files which will mean it will be relatively easy in future to
> create a page as a Page Wizard and then to port it across to Online Toolkits
> or into the PageTemplates project wide template.
>
> If all goes to plan this will all get packaged up into the next release of
> Page Wizards and I will pick up on Narration Issues at the same time.
>
> However in the mean time I will try to test out what you say and if I can
> duplicate it I will see if I can implement Julian's fix in the
> narrationHandler.rlm.
>
> There should only be one narrationHandler.rlm in a Page Wizards project,
> that is then called by every page that uses Narration.
>
> I took a quick look at your website, but was not sure which exercise to
> open.
>
> I will put a bit more time into trying to sort the narration out as soon as
> I can, but at present time may be short for a day or two.
>
> Kind regards
>
> Johnathan
>
> On 24 April 2011 13:47, Deborah Delin <admin at strivney.com> wrote:
>
>> Yes, Jonathan, your funny feeling is right:  I pointed out this problem
>> with the desktop version in and Julian was kind enough to send a fix (see
>> attached) which was subsequently tested by a couple of us and worked.  I
>> think you said you were going to wait and see if it was stable before
>> implementing the change in Wizards.  I just tried to test in Wizards to see
>> if there is the same "narration oddness" and observed the following.
>>
>> - Narration shows up on first page load, but after advancing to another
>> page and then returning, the narration disappears.  See:
>>
>> http://www.strivney.com/mod/resource/view.php?id=2042 (please use guest
>> access)
>>
>> - I am not sure if it is me - I am new at this - or if there is a bug but
>> I can't get narration to show up consistently on subsequent pages.  Can you
>> please confirm I only need one narration handler for as many Page Wizards as
>> I want?  Please see attached screenshot.  I tried putting narration handlers
>> in various places and got very random results. Although I added narration to
>> all the pages, sometimes it appeared and sometimes not (when tested in
>> browser and not just preview).
>>
>> Thanks very much in advance.
>>
>> Deborah
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