[Xerte] Video in a gap fill

Tue Jan 4 10:15:07 GMT 2011

A Happy New Year one and all.

You can't define the height of the text field, because it is broken into individual clips - for the same reason you can't call setText() on the icon.

You can't put a scroll pane on the text icon as that's going to cause problems for replacing the draggable labels / positioning the text entries.

The best thing to do is to break the exercise into smaller chunks.

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Kemp Johnathan
Sent: 23 December 2010 11:39
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: Re: [Xerte] Video in a gap fill

If the video is relevant to every gapFill page then putting it in the entryFrame may be a better performing solution as it is only references once in the project.

I took a quick look at the gapFill Page Wizard and how it works. The scroll bar is displaying at the height of the passage Text Icon as defined in its properties, but since the content of the icon (the id of which is mainText, though its title is passage) is being created on the fly after the text icon has loaded, it is not being constrained by the height of the Text Icon.

It may be possible to redefine the height of mainText in the makeInteraction script, after the variable str has been populated with the text, though I haven't tested the effect of doing this.

Alternatively it may be better to remove the {str}  value in the passage text icon's text property and to call mainText.setText() to set the value of the text icon's text property.

I don't have the time right now to try these options out but they may give you some ideas of what you could try for yourself.

The Gap Fill page works by splitting the text into individual words, so the longer the text the longer the page takes to load. So the better solution may be to edit the video into a series of meaningful shorter videos and display them in sequence in a series of gapFill pages in which the gapFill exercise relates to the section of the video that is displayed on that page.

Kind regards

Johnathan

On 22 December 2010 12:11, Simon Barne <simonbarne at gmail.com<mailto:simonbarne at gmail.com>> wrote:
Thank you for the tip about adding the video directly to the gap fill, which
I have now managed to do.

I previously added it to an entry frame so that the same movie could be used
for successive gap fills, which seem to need to be quite small. I used three
gap fills for a 2-minute video clip of 300 spoken words. Larger gap fills
take a while to load and they do not automatically scroll.

Does anyone know how to add scrollbars to a gap fill? Adding the property
"scrolling:1" to the passage icon puts a scrollbar button at the top right
of the panel, but the text still overflows at the bottom.

From: Kemp Johnathan [mailto:johnathan.kemp at ntlworld.com<mailto:johnathan.kemp at ntlworld.com>]
Sent: 20 December 2010 6:27 PM
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: Re: [Xerte] Video in a gap fill

If you add the movie to the entry frame then you will have that movie
displaying on every page of the Framework as the content of an entry frame
is displayed on all subsequent pages of the container in which it is used.
Entry frames are often used to provide customised navigation for a framework
for example.

However since you know how to add movie to an Entry frame, you could open
the structure of the gap fill page and add the movie to the gap fill page's
structure. Then the movie would only display in the gap fill page and not
display in any of the other pages you might have in the framework. After all
if you are only having one page in the Framework then why use a Framework?

One of the nice features of Page Wizards is that they expose their structure
so that you can learn more about how they work and modify them. You could
even use them to create a new page wizard e.g. a Gap Fill page that included
a movie.

Remember that when a page is created using a Page Wizard, the .rlm file in
the Page's folder is only used to generate the page's initial structure. If
you change the page structure, e.g. by adding new icons to the page's
structure the .rlm file will remain unchanged. To bring your changes into a
new wizard you would need to save the modified page's structure as a model
file and use this .rlm file as the basis for your new model.

If you have any questions about modifying Page Wizards just post them and I
will do my best to help.

Kind regards

Johnathan

On 18 December 2010 21:36, Simon Barne <simonbarne at gmail.com<mailto:simonbarne at gmail.com>> wrote:
I may as well answer my own question. This method uses Xerte 2 and the page
wizards on the wiki:

1. Install the page wizards.
2. Add a framework to a page.
3. Add an entry frame to the framework.
4. Add a movie to the entry frame.
5. Using the page wizards (Templates > Interactivity > Gap Fill), add a gap
fill to the framework.

And Bob's your uncle. If anyone knows a better way, please tell.

-----Original Message-----
From: Simon Barne [mailto:simonbarne at gmail.com<mailto:simonbarne at gmail.com>]
Sent: 15 December 2010 2:27 PM
To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>
Subject: [Xerte] Video in a gap fill

Is there a simple way of including a video on the same page as a gap-fill
interaction?

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