[Xerte] Re: Interesting Problem with Swfs

Wed Jun 15 12:14:25 BST 2011

<learningObject menuImage="FileLocation + 'media/ball.swf'"

menuImage?

Not really speedy on the XOT/rlt stuff, but that would strike me as unusual.

From: aread at marjon.ac.uk
To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 10:01:15 +0000
Subject: [Xerte] Re: Interesting Problem with Swfs

Hmm not sure if my attachment mail got through?

You can download the project zip directly from here:
http://elearning.net.marjon.ac.uk/stuff/SWFprob.zip

Just open the youtube page, then navigate back to the main menu to see the swf problem.

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk]
On Behalf Of Julian Tenney

Sent: 15 June 2011 10:34

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Subject: [Xerte] Re: Interesting Problem with Swfs

I can’t reproduce it. Send me the project, stripped down to just replicate the problem (i.e. the smallest possible project you can make that exhibits it)

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
 [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Adam Read

Sent: 15 June 2011 10:33

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Subject: [Xerte] Re: Interesting Problem with Swfs

Does template.rlt need to replace Nottingham.rlt?

If yes – done that and overwrote menu model, restarted IIS, cleared cache, made a new Xerte and the problem still persists

L

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
 [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney

Sent: 15 June 2011 10:12

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Subject: [Xerte] Re: Interesting Problem with Swfs

Try these. The .rlt needs renaming.

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
 [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Adam Read

Sent: 15 June 2011 09:25

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Subject: [Xerte] Re: Interesting Problem with Swfs

Any luck/ideas?

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
 [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney

Sent: 14 June 2011 14:52

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Subject: [Xerte] Re: Interesting Problem with Swfs

Bear with me.

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 14:45

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Subject: [Xerte] Re: Interesting Problem with Swfs

Hmm. Just tried a new LO just in case and problem still persists. Are you using the new youtube.rlm that you sent last week?

I’ve exported a test as a zip which you can find here:
http://elearning.net.marjon.ac.uk/stuff/testvid.zip - perhaps some of the other files im using are out of date?

When I tried to upgrade the whole of our XOT site, it broke our installation, so reverted and just did the models etc and the main engine stuff.

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
 [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney

Sent: 14 June 2011 14:23

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Subject: [Xerte] Re: Interesting Problem with Swfs

Hmm. It fixed it here…

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 14:23

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Subject: [Xerte] Re: Interesting Problem with Swfs

I hate a var collision…

Doesn’t seem to have fixed it though – cleared cache, restarted IIS, tried another browser, still persists.

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
 [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney

Sent: 14 June 2011 13:57

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Subject: [Xerte] Re: Interesting Problem with Swfs

No, a var collision. Try the menu.rlm attached.

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 13:23

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Subject: [Xerte] Re: Interesting Problem with Swfs

Don’t think it’s the player controls – created the attached swf – a simple shape tween.

Exactly the same happens when jumping directly back from the YT page:

Adam

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
 [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney

Sent: 14 June 2011 12:30

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Subject: [Xerte] Re: Interesting Problem with Swfs

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

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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…

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:

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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