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

[Tom Reijnders]

This is already in 2.17 (thanks Jonathan for pointing that out).

Op 12-12-2011 10:28, Julian Tenney schreef:
>
> Can you check that in please.
>
> *From:*xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk 
> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of *Kemp 
> Johnathan
> *Sent:* 11 December 2011 21:53
> *To:* Xerte discussion list
> *Subject:* [Xerte] Re: Page template, Optional Parameter 'Text Width' 
> of Plain Text doesn't work
>
> 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 
> <mailto: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?
>
> Bye,
> Inge
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