[Xerte] Re: Customizing XOT Projects
Tom Reijnders
reijnders at tor.nl
Fri Dec 2 10:50:08 GMT 2011
try visuals=2...
Op 2-12-2011 11:39, Kemp Johnathan schreef:
> OK I'm getting there bit by bit.
>
> I can now move the buttons and the masks (and the button background),
> I can also redraw the Title Bar, Title Banner and Status Bar.
>
> I have hit the following issue.
>
> If I want to reduce the height of the title bar I can set the height
> to a lower value and then draw it, but the original title bar is still
> displayed beneath it. The only way I can find to erase the original
> Title Bar is to set visuals to 0 and then start to build my interface
> from scratch. I can then draw a new title bar, title banner and status
> bar, but cannot get the buttons to re-appear.
>
> so
>
> 1. Is there a way to erase any of the bars without setting visuals to
> 0, so that a smaller new bar can be displayed without the original
> bar being visible as well?
> 2. If visuals are set to 0 is there a way of re-appearing or
> repainting the original Xerte buttons and combo boxes?
>
> I will document all this on the wiki once I have things sorted out :-)
>
> Kind regards
>
> Johnathan
>
> On 1 December 2011 13:36, Julian Tenney
> <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk
> <mailto:Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk>> wrote:
>
> 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
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> Johnathan
> *Sent:* 30 November 2011 19:16
>
>
> *To:* Xerte discussion list
> *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
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> Johnathan
> *Sent:* 30 November 2011 16:13
>
>
> *To:* Xerte discussion list
> *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
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> <mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>] On Behalf Of Tom
> Reijnders
> Sent: 29 November 2011 18:14
> To: Xerte discussion list
> 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
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> <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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