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

Wed Aug 17 11:21:36 BST 2011

We can scale the div based on the stage size when the function is called, but resizing it if the stage is resized afterwards would be pain. Let's get a basic version working, then we can figure out the other bits and pieces.

-----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 11:03
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: [Xerte] Re: Using <embed> tag in Online Toolkit

Yeah, I would make it dynamically this way you could create multiple
pop ups. And it would solve the "why can't it take this format issue".
Then I'd recode media + quota to allow for a JS pop up code block as
well?

Might mess with the accessibility though.

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 10:44 AM, Julian Tenney
<Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
> What happens when Joe User changes the size of the stage?
>
> Can you easily code me a makeDiv() function?
>
> makeDiv(x,y,w,h,src,draggable);
>
> x: x coord of the div;
> y: y coord of the div
> w: width of the div
> h: height of the div
> src: either the html for the div, or a url for the iframe: the function can decide which it is [if (src.substr(0,1) == '<' or similar]
> draggable: whether to all the div to be draggable or not - default false
>
>
> -----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 10:26
> To: Xerte discussion list
> Subject: [Xerte] Re: Using <embed> tag in Online Toolkit
>
> 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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