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

Pat Lockley patrick.lockley at googlemail.com
Wed Aug 17 11:31:15 BST 2011 

i was more thinking text focus on pop up?

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 11:21 AM, Julian Tenney
<Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
> 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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