[Xerte] Re: Question about screen size

Fri Apr 13 08:19:59 BST 2012

Hi,

A big thank you for all of you who tried to help me solve my problem.

Hereby I want give a brief summary about how to solve the problem of the screen resize not working.
Apparently, as Ron suggested, you have to enable trusted location in the flash player when viewing locally.

How can you do that ?
1. Open the Xerte project by opening the index.htm file
2. Place the mouse cursor within the Xerte window and press the right mouse button
3. Choose the option "global settings"
4. Go to the tab page "Advanced"
5. Scroll to the setting "Developer Tools - Specify trusted location for developer testing" and press the button "Trusted Location Settings"
6. Add the folder where you have unzipped the zip-exported Xerte project.
7. Acknowledge this and close the Settings window
8. Now back in the web browser again, press the F5 button to reload the page and everything works as advertised.

Again a big thank you to all of you.

Best regards,

     John Bijnens

On 12/04/2012 21:40, Ron Mitchell wrote:
> Are you sure that you've enabled the trusted location when viewing locally?
>
> I extracted that zip, opened index.htm and the screen size options work fine
> without any need to change any code like rloObject.js etc
>
> Here's a screencast of that test
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1388941/testing_size_options.mp4
>
> HTH
> Ron
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of John Bijnens
> Sent: 12 April 2012 20:17
> To: 'Xerte discussion list'
> Subject: [Xerte] Re: Question about screen size
>
> Hi,
>
> I've attached a zip file of a very small project to this email.
>
> Best regards,
>
>       John Bijnens
>
> On 12/04/2012 21:01, Ron Mitchell wrote:
>> can you attach one of your zips to the list for us to have a look at?
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of John
>> Bijnens
>> Sent: 12 April 2012 19:37
>> To: Xerte discussion list
>> Subject: [Xerte] Re: Question about screen size
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Thank you for your response.
>>
>> I've looked on my XOT server and found two rloobject.js files.
>> One is in the root of the server and one is in the SCORM module.
>> I've replaced the rloobject.js in the zip export by the one in the root.
>> Now the site doesn't load anymore.
>> I've then replaced the rloobject.js in the zip export by the one in
>> the SCORM module.
>> Now the site works again, but the screen size behavior is the same.
>> "Full screen" and "Fill window" don't work.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>>        John Bijnens
>>
>> On 12/04/2012 20:19, Pat Lockley wrote:
>>> i think the problem is with the exported rloobject.js
>>>
>>> have you a XOT server you could take this code from?
>>>
>>> On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 7:18 PM, John Bijnens<johnbijnens1 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>> Thank you for your response.
>>>>
>>>> I've followed your recommendation but this doesn't solve the problem.
>>>> It doesn't matter whether I try to open the the project that was
>>>> exported to a zip-file from a local hdd, an usb, or if I place it on
>>>> a
>> webserver.
>>>> The behaviour is the same i.e. the options "full screen" and "fill
>> window"
>>>> don't work.
>>>> It is only when I'm creating the project within Xerte Toolkits and
>>>> perform a preview that these options work.
>>>>
>>>> Best regards,
>>>>
>>>>       John Bijnens
>>>>
>>>> On 12/04/2012 18:44, Ron Mitchell wrote:
>>>>> If I'm understanding correctly this sounds like a flash player
>>>>> security issue e.g. if it's working online but not when you export
>>>>> and try to view from a local hdd or usb?
>>>>> Add the path or drive to trusted locations under flash player
>>>>> global settings and try again HTH Ron
>>>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>>>>> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of John
>>>>> Bijnens
>>>>> Sent: 12 April 2012 09:54
>>>>> To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>>>>> Subject: [Xerte] Question about screen size
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>
>>>>> I have a question about Xerte that is hopefully not too stupid.
>>>>> One of the features that I find very useful in Xerte amongst
>>>>> numerous other things is the fact that the user can change the
>>>>> screen size.
>>>>> He can pick the options "default", "large", "larger", "full
>>>>> screen", "fill window" from a pull-down menu "Screen Size".
>>>>> Whenever I create something within Xerte Toolkit and I use the
>>>>> preview option these options work fine.
>>>>> However when I do an export of the project to a zip-file in order
>>>>> to use it as an independent website, the options "full screen" and
>>>>> "fill window" do nothing anymore. The options "large" and "larger"
>>>>> do a zoom in as expected, but I can't go back to the original scale
>>>>> anymore and I'm not able to drag/pan the window contents within the
>>>>> browser window.
>>>>> I have this behavior with an installation of Xerte Toolkit on
>>>>> Ubuntu Server and with an installation on a Windows system with XAMPP.
>>>>> The behavior is the same in InternetExplorer 8 and in FireFox 11.
>>>>> As the examples available on the website of the University of
>>>>> Nottingham work fine in both browsers I'm guessing I have something
>>>>> done
>> wrong.
>>>>> Can anyone point me into the right direction to solve this ?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank you very much in advance.
>>>>>
>>>>> Best regards,
>>>>>
>>>>>         John Bijnens
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