[Xerte] Re: Using <embed> tag in Online Toolkit

Wed Aug 17 10:25:43 BST 2011

yeah, perhaps a "draggable" and or / an 'src' option which could do an iframe?

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 10:13 AM, Julian Tenney
<Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
> I'd wondered about a hack I'd seen somewhere else, where you can position the div with the funny content in it over the flash movie at a place / size of your choosing, making it appear part of the flash content itself: then you could put up a whitepanel type page, and pop, say, a windows media player control over the top of it.
>
> How would we do it? With a new page type?
>
> Preview_xerte_top is the place for any js functions that xerte calls: adding
>
> makeDiv(x,y,w,h,htmlSource) //does that sound the right approach?
>
> Would be easy enough...
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat Lockley
> Sent: 17 August 2011 09:58
> To: Xerte discussion list
> Subject: [Xerte] Re: Using <embed> tag in Online Toolkit
>
> J, hows about this.
>
> A bit of JS you can trigger inside the play screen which pops up a div
> within the window itself?
>
> I'd guess it wouldn't be a lot to code (i'd offer) and it'd mean the
> people with non-content would have an answer
>
> On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 9:47 AM, Julian Tenney
> <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
>> This will update all the templates stuff: I'm just trying to unpick from the
>> svn logs the various changes / dependencies etc. Then you can update your
>> templates to those in 1.6, and leave the rest of the application as it is.
>> Bear with me...
>>
>>
>>
>> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Matt Lingard
>> Sent: 17 August 2011 09:29
>>
>> To: Xerte discussion list
>> Subject: [Xerte] Re: Using <embed> tag in Online Toolkit
>>
>>
>>
>> Wow, thanks Julian.  We've not upgraded to 1.6 yet, presumably we'd need to
>> as well.
>> Regards
>> Matt
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 9:28 AM, Julian Tenney
>> <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
>>
>> You'll need to update some files: bear with me and I'll make a zip for you,
>>
>>
>>
>> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Matt Lingard
>> Sent: 17 August 2011 09:27
>>
>> To: Xerte discussion list
>> Subject: [Xerte] Re: Using <embed> tag in Online Toolkit
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks Julian.
>>
>> We are using the Online Toolkit and my understanding was that newWindow is
>> not an option in this version?
>>
>> I'm afraid I don't know what you mean by svn - I'm new to Xerte and have
>> limited technical knowledge (not just of xerte!)
>>
>> Regards,
>> Matt
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 9:17 AM, Julian Tenney
>> <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
>>
>> In the newWindow page there is an optional 'html' property. If you add that
>> property, you can write HTML for the webpage that will open, so put your
>> embed code in there, and it will be passed to the new window to become the
>> newWindow's source.
>>
>> Then you can embed whatever you want, and there's no need to move the media
>> from its home.
>>
>> You might need an updated newWindow model from the svn.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat Lockley
>> Sent: 16 August 2011 17:59
>> To: Xerte discussion list
>> Subject: [Xerte] Re: Using <embed> tag in Online Toolkit
>>
>> <a href="url" target="_blank">link text</a> is the only option short
>> of media converting
>>
>> depends on what else you'd want to do, the xerte code lives inside a
>> div, so you could write a popup div block of code. Inside that DIV is
>> an iframe. Use javascript to set that iframe SRC and show the div.
>>
>> That might be a feature worth coding.....
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 5:22 PM, Matt Lingard <mattlingard at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Thanks Pat. That's good to know.
>>>
>>> In this case, we were hoping to keep the media on it's existing server
>>> rather than having to copy it to our xerte server. Not possible I'm
>>> guessing.
>>> Matt
>>>
>>> On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Pat Lockley
>>> <patrick.lockley at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> You can use the media and quota tab in properties to upload any file,
>>>> it'll then give you the HTML <a> tag for that file. Still a
>>>> target="_blank" in there and it should open in a new window anyways.
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 4:57 PM, Matt Lingard <mattlingard at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> > Hi everyone,
>>>> >
>>>> > From browsing back through various messages I'm pretty certain the
>>>> > answer is
>>>> > "no", but just wanted to be 100% certain that I'm understanding Xerte
>>>> > (as a
>>>> > newbie).
>>>> >
>>>> > I want to be able to embed some video in a template created with the
>>>> > online
>>>> > toolkit.  The code I've been supplied with is an <embed> and the files
>>>> > are
>>>> > mp4. Am I correct that this is a non starter? And is this because Xerte
>>>> > is
>>>> > Flash rather than HTML?
>>>> >
>>>> > And finally, I've seen a few 'new window' solutions... is this a
>>>> > feature
>>>> > of
>>>> > the desktop version rather than the online toolkit?
>>>> >
>>>> > Regards,
>>>> > Matt
>>>> >
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