[Xerte] Re: Customizing XOT Projects

Wed Nov 30 13:38:19 GMT 2011

Thanks, that works!
Citeren Julian Tenney <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk>:

> You need to use the #aabbcc format, as a string, for the html text fields.
>
> [cid:image001.jpg at 01CCAF43.D79927B0]
>
> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk  
> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Tom  
> Reijnders
> Sent: 29 November 2011 18:14
> To: Xerte discussion list
> Subject: [Xerte] Re: Customizing XOT Projects
>
> defaultColour somehow doesn't seem to work...
>
> Also in my (and thus José's  example) I also change unselectedText,  
> that property is not in the optional property list. I think it  
> changes the text colour of the Combo boxes, but I am not behind my  
> normal PC, so I can't check right now.
>
> Tom
>
> Op 29-11-2011 16:06, Julian Tenney schreef:
> defaultColour is the default text colour.
> labelColour is the colour for text in checkbox labels, radio button  
> labels and labels themselves
> inputColour: the colour of text in text entry boxes
> pageTitleColor: deprecated (no reference to it in XMLEngine)
> stageColour: yes, turn visuals off;
>
> From:  
> xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Kemp  
> Johnathan
> Sent: 29 November 2011 14:57
> To: Jose Diaz; Xerte discussion list
> Subject: [Xerte] Re: Customizing XOT Projects
>
> I have been following this thread with great interest as I have long  
> been curious as to how you could customise the Xerte interface. So  
> many thanks to Tom and Jose and anyone else who I might have missed  
> who has contributed to this.
>
> I have almost completed translating into English Jose's excellent  
> tutorial. I notice that there is a slight discrepancy in that the  
> example changes about 8 optional properties of the project but only  
> one is mentioned in the tutorial, so the results achieved by  
> following the tutorial would not match the displayed image.
>
> I have been testing the available colour properties to establish  
> what might have been changed and am finding a few properties that  
> don't appear to be doing much. I wanted to add a description of the  
> optional colour properties and their effects to the english  
> translation.
>
> Can anyone with more experience of moding the xerte interface  
> comment on the following observations and perhaps correct any errors  
> or oversights on my part.
>
> ***********
>
> The following colour properties are available and were tested in  
> Xerte preview.
>
> titleBarColour: Changes the title bar at the top of the page.
>
> StatusBarColour: Changes the bar below the title bar and the bar at  
> the bottom of the screen.
>
> FillColour: changes page background and colour behind volume control
>
> defaultColour: not sure (changed the arrows on the table of contents)
>
> buttonFillColour: changes the background to all the buttons on the interface.
>
> ButtonTextColour: changes the border on the top buttons and their  
> text in the status bar
>
> glossaryColour: no observed effect but project did not have a glossary.
>
> LabelColour: no observed effect
>
> inputColour: no observed effect
>
> pageTitleColour : no observed effect
>
> statusColour: Changes the continue arrows and continue label at  
> bottom right of screen.
>
> TitleColour: Changes colour of project and page title and table of  
> contents title.
>
> StageColour: No visible effect (may be significant if visuals are  
> turned off?)
> ***********
> Once completed the translation will be available in open office and  
> pdf format. I will look to posting it to the wiki at some point.
>
> Thanks in advance for your help.
>
> Johnathan
>
>
> On 27 November 2011 17:21, Jose Diaz  
> <xt4mhz at yahoo.com<mailto:xt4mhz at yahoo.com>> wrote:
> Hi everyone ... promise is a promise :-)
>
> Here goes the the address where I published the small tutorial about  
> how to customize the "look" of XOT:
>
> http://jgdu.blogspot.com/2011/11/xot-como-cambiar-su-apariencia.html
>
> Thanks to all of you for the help.
>
> Take care.
>
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