[Xerte] Re: Page template, Optional Parameter 'Text Width' of Plain Text doesn't work

[Kemp Johnathan]

Hello Inge,

If you look at the model file you will see that there is a decision icon
offering two pages.

The first page has a text icon which has a width set to 550, the second
page has a component icon.

Above the decision icon is a script. In the script a path variable is set
to 1 if subsuper is  true and 0 otherwise.

Since the decision icon branch property is set to calculate, the decision
icon will display the page indexed by the path property i.e. the page with
text if path is 0 and the page with the component if path is set to 1.

If you have added and checked the Superscript Support optional property
then the text will be displayed in the  swf called by the component and any
textWidth setting will be ignored.

If you have not checked the text width property then the Decision icon will
display the page with the Text Icon

In your getPageID script there should be the following block of code

if (pageIcon.templateData.text[0].textWidth != undefined){
// icon.nextSibling.attributes.w = pageIcon.templateData.text[0].textWidth;
// added to directly set the width of the text display
icon.nextSibling.firstChild.firstChild.attributes.w =
pageIcon.templateData.text[0].textWidth;
}

The commented out line that starts

//icon.nextSibling

is the original line that used to set the width of the text icon but this
was compromised by the addition to the script of the Decision icon to
accommodate handling Superscript by use of a swf.

The following line was added to provide the correct relative path to the
text icon in its new position inside the decision, to set its text width.

icon.nextSibling.firstChild.firstChild.attributes.w =
pageIcon.templateData.text[0].textWidth;

 If your model file lacks this line (I believe it is included in Xerte
2.17) then the textWidth property will fail to get its width set correctly.

Whist the xwd file displays text values to the user e.g.   Small, Medium,
Large, Full the data returned by the xwd is a number 300,450,600,760.

So in a nutshell, the xwd returns a number and the line
icon.nextSibling.firstChild etc. sets the width value of the text icon. But
this will be irrelevant if you check the Support Superscript box, or if
your model file lacks the correction to the relative path to the textIcon.

I hope this sorts it out for you.

Kind regards

Johnathan

On 11 December 2011 13:52, Inge Donkervoort <i.donkervoort at tor.nl> wrote:

>  Hi,
>
> The optional parameter 'Text Width' of the Plain Text Page Template
> doesn't work. I looked in the model file and the width of the text box is
> set to 550.  How is this suppost to work?
>
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> Inge
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