[Xerte] Re: Interesting Problem with Swfs

[Julian Tenney]

Try it with a more basic swf: I have a feeling that playback controller in your swf might be causing problems. Try a simple animation and see if it works. It works for me... so I think it is something in your swf not playing nice.

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Adam Read
Sent: 14 June 2011 08:31
To: Xerte discussion list (xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk)
Subject: [Xerte] Interesting Problem with Swfs

I've been experimenting with toolkits, and a learning object with 'menu with page controls' navigation enabled. On my menu page, I've added the optional menu page image property. Rather than just use a boring image, I've attempted to insert a swf - which itself plays a FLV video (from our streaming server) and also has its own player controls (linked from the Xerte media files).

You can view the LO here: http://elearning.net.marjon.ac.uk/rlo/play.php?template_id=334

Hopefully you'll see that the swf video loads fine, and can be controlled by the user with the control buttons. Everything fine so far...

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Now click the menu button for 'Inserting Page Breaks: Part 1' - which loads the modified youtube page type that Julian worked on last week. This works fine also.

However, now for the interesting behaviour...while on the youtube page - use the contents button from the top menu to return to the main menu, and you should see that Xerte loads several instances of my original swf video and breaks:

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This doesn't happen if you use the previous/next buttons - it only seems to replicate when directly jumping between the YT page and main menu.

Any ideas how I could stop this? Let me know if you want me to share the swf and LO.

Adam

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