[Xerte] Re: Customizing XOT Projects

Fri Dec 2 11:38:29 GMT 2011

At what point is some one going to make a wizard which does this for you.......

On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 10:50 AM, Tom Reijnders <reijnders at tor.nl> wrote:
> 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
>
> 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?
> 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>
> 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
>> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Kemp 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>
>> 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] On Behalf Of Kemp 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> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks, that works!
>> Citeren Julian Tenney <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] 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<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>> 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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