[Xerte] Re: Customizing XOT Projects

Thu Dec 1 13:36:58 GMT 2011

It's a bit of pain. Look for clips on rootIcon called 'mask' and then an index, and move those, or delete them.

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Kemp Johnathan
Sent: 30 November 2011 19:16
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: Customizing XOT Projects

Thanks for that.

If I move the buttons down using

rootIcon.tocBtn._y = 550;

then a shadow of the button is left in the title bar, as the buttonFill does not move when the button does. Is there a way of moving the button fill so that the button keeps its background?

Kind regards

Johnathan

On 30 November 2011 16:19, Julian Tenney <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk>> wrote:
Redraw it. It's just drawings (not a movieclip), but the height is remembered in case it comes in handy for other layout tasks. You should probably set it if you redraw the status bar.

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>] On Behalf Of Kemp Johnathan
Sent: 30 November 2011 16:13

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Subject: [Xerte] Re: Customizing XOT Projects

Is there a way of increasing the height of the status bar at the bottom of the screen.

If someone moves the buttons to the bottom of the screen then it would be useful to be able to increase the height of the status bar to accommodate the height of the buttons.

I tried the following in a script of the Entry Frame

debug("rootIcon.statusBarHeight = " + rootIcon.statusBarHeight); // returns 20

rootIcon.statusBarHeight = 40;

debug("rootIcon.statusBarHeight = " + rootIcon.statusBarHeight); // returns 40

but the displayed height of the status bar does not change.

Any ideas?

On 30 November 2011 13:38, Tom Reijnders <reijnders at tor.nl<mailto:reijnders at tor.nl>> wrote:
Thanks, that works!
Citeren Julian Tenney <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk>>:
You need to use the #aabbcc format, as a string, for the html text fields.
[cid:image001.jpg at 01CCAF43.D79927B0]

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>] On Behalf Of Tom Reijnders
Sent: 29 November 2011 18:14
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: Customizing XOT Projects

defaultColour somehow doesn't seem to work...

Also in my (and thus José's  example) I also change unselectedText, that property is not in the optional property list. I think it changes the text colour of the Combo boxes, but I am not behind my normal PC, so I can't check right now.

Tom

Op 29-11-2011 16:06, Julian Tenney schreef:
defaultColour is the default text colour.
labelColour is the colour for text in checkbox labels, radio button labels and labels themselves
inputColour: the colour of text in text entry boxes
pageTitleColor: deprecated (no reference to it in XMLEngine)
stageColour: yes, turn visuals off;
From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk><mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>] On Behalf Of Kemp Johnathan

Sent: 29 November 2011 14:57
To: Jose Diaz; Xerte discussion list
Subject: [Xerte] Re: Customizing XOT Projects

I have been following this thread with great interest as I have long been curious as to how you could customise the Xerte interface. So many thanks to Tom and Jose and anyone else who I might have missed who has contributed to this.

I have almost completed translating into English Jose's excellent tutorial. I notice that there is a slight discrepancy in that the example changes about 8 optional properties of the project but only one is mentioned in the tutorial, so the results achieved by following the tutorial would not match the displayed image.

I have been testing the available colour properties to establish what might have been changed and am finding a few properties that don't appear to be doing much. I wanted to add a description of the optional colour properties and their effects to the english translation.

Can anyone with more experience of moding the xerte interface comment on the following observations and perhaps correct any errors or oversights on my part.

***********

The following colour properties are available and were tested in Xerte preview.

titleBarColour: Changes the title bar at the top of the page.

StatusBarColour: Changes the bar below the title bar and the bar at the bottom of the screen.

FillColour: changes page background and colour behind volume control

defaultColour: not sure (changed the arrows on the table of contents)

buttonFillColour: changes the background to all the buttons on the interface.

ButtonTextColour: changes the border on the top buttons and their text in the status bar

glossaryColour: no observed effect but project did not have a glossary.

LabelColour: no observed effect

inputColour: no observed effect

pageTitleColour : no observed effect

statusColour: Changes the continue arrows and continue label at bottom right of screen.

TitleColour: Changes colour of project and page title and table of contents title.

StageColour: No visible effect (may be significant if visuals are turned off?)
***********
Once completed the translation will be available in open office and pdf format. I will look to posting it to the wiki at some point.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Johnathan
On 27 November 2011 17:21, Jose Diaz <xt4mhz at yahoo.com<mailto:xt4mhz at yahoo.com><mailto:xt4mhz at yahoo.com<mailto:xt4mhz at yahoo.com>>> wrote:
Hi everyone ... promise is a promise :-)

Here goes the the address where I published the small tutorial about how to customize the "look" of XOT:

http://jgdu.blogspot.com/2011/11/xot-como-cambiar-su-apariencia.html

Thanks to all of you for the help.

Take care.

José Gregorio.

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