[Xerte] Re: rootIcon.loadIcon() - getting it working with xml

[Kemp Johnathan]

Thank you Julian, once again.

That's another fine mess you've got me out of!

Kind regards

Johnathan

On 6 December 2011 09:23, Julian Tenney <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk>wrote:

>  Fay is right: you are getting the string "FileLocation +
> 'media/file.jpg'", you need to evaluate it.
>
> myPath = expression(templateData.pageName[0].icon, engine); //substitute
> your page name / attribute name
> debug(myPath);
>
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> *From:* xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [
> xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Kemp Johnathan [
> johnathan.kemp at ntlworld.com]
> *Sent:* 05 December 2011 22:19
> *To:* Xerte discussion list
> *Subject:* [Xerte] rootIcon.loadIcon() - getting it working with xml
>
>  The Xerte help specifies
>
>  rootIcon.loadIcon(FileLOcation + 'media/icon.png');
>
>  as the way to call loadIcon, but how do you use it when you don't want
> to hard code the file name?
>
>  I have an xwd based form that collects the url value as
> "FileLocation + 'media/bannerTest1.png'"
>
>  In my script I have tried
>
>  rootIcon.loadIcon(templateData.learningObject[0].projDisplay[0].logoUrl);
>
>  which fails, even though
>
>  debug( templateData.learningObject[0].projDisplay[0].logoUrl );
>
>  outputs
>
>  FileLocation + 'media/bannerTest1.png'
>
>  I have tried tests such as
>
>  fred = "media/bannerTest1.png";
> rootIcon.loadIcon(FileLocation + "'" + fred + "'");
>
>  and
>
>  fred = "'media/bannerTest1.png'";
> rootIcon.loadIcon(FileLocation + fred);
>
> In an attempt to figure out what hoops I will have to go through to get it
> to work, but the only way I can get the image to display is if I hard code
> it into the script.
>
>  i.e.
>  rootIcon.loadIcon(FileLocation + 'media/bannerTest1.png');
>
>  works.
>
>  I cannot get the image to display when the path is passed in a variable.
>
>  I don't know if the issue is something to do with FileLocation
> converting to a path with back slashes whilst the media/bannerTest1.png has
> a forward slash, but this hasn't stopped the method call working when I
> hard code the file name.
>
>  Can anyone suggest a way forward?
>
>  Kind regards
>
>  Johnathan
>
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