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

Pat Lockley patrick.lockley at googlemail.com
Fri Aug 19 11:09:34 BST 2011 

seems fine to me, but this will create multiple pop ups (might need to
be a hard-coded - click to close) option else when you move pages.....

On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 9:55 AM, Julian Tenney
<Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
> Does this make sense Pat?
>
> function makePopUp(type,x,y,width,height,bgColour,borderColour,src)
> {
>        //make the div and style it (we always do this)...
>        var create_div = document.createElement("DIV");
>        create_div.style.height = height + "px";
>        create_div.style.width = width + "px";
>        create_div.style.position = "absolute";
>        create_div.style.top = x + "px";
>        create_div.style.left = y + "px";
>        create_div.style.background = bgColour;
>        create_div.style.border = "1px solid " + borderColour;
>
>        //if we make a div, set the innerHTML
>        if (type == 'div')
>        {
>                create_div.innerHTML = src;
>        }
>
>        //else we make an iframe, so set the URL
>        if(type == 'iframe')
>        {
>                var iframe_create_div = document.createElement("IFRAME");
>                iframe_create_div.src = src;
>                iframe_create_div.style.height = height + "px";
>                iframe_create_div.style.width = width + "px";
>                create_div.appendChild(iframe_create_div);
>        }
>
>        //we're done: append the finished div
>        document.getElementById("popup_parent").appendChild(create_div);
> }
>
> -----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 18:40
> To: Xerte discussion list
> Subject: [Xerte] Re: Using <embed> tag in Online Toolkit
>
> In zip modified preview_xerte_top - including fixed link for testing (and functions and slight HTML mods)
>
> and modfied rloobject.js (wmode = opaque) to allow for zindex pops up above the flash.
>
> DO NOT ADD TO YOUR SITE THESE ARE DEVELOPMENT VERSIONS
>
> On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Pat Lockley <patrick.lockley at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> 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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