[Xerte] Re: resize problem with XOT 1.8 stops it working

[Cowell, Elizabeth]

Hi Ron,

Further to that, I have tested out running content from our student machines, and they also don't resize when running windows 7 and internet explorer, but do work with windows 7 and firefox, so not sure if its to do with the flashplayer/browser interaction? 

(I am also wondering whether I should be looking at Xenith as an alternative but haven't kept abreast of how far it is as yet...)

Best regards

Liz

Liz Cowell 
Learning and Skills Librarian
Learning & Information Services 
University of Wolverhampton 
Tel: 01902 322385 
Email: E.Cowell at wlv.ac.uk


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From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Cowell, Elizabeth
Sent: 20 December 2012 13:10
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: resize problem with XOT 1.8 stops it working

Hi Ron,

Well I'm really puzzled.  When I looked at the flash player security options they seemed to be for developers testing content based locally accessing external sites (or vice versa). The code I am testing is hosted on our website, not locally. It seems as if the DoFScommand isn't being called when the flash object resizes, but tbh I am reaching the limit of my knowledge/time to look at this area.

So  if you can offer any advice or a fix it would be really appreciated, as I am just trying to get a body of content authored to get our team on board using Xerte. If they become aware that it might not  run on every  student laptop, they will may not want to go with it.

And it works fine from my PC at work, but not on my laptop.

There seem to be no appropriate flash settings to alter??, as I say my main concern is that if it doesn't work for me on a laptop, how would our students access the content we offer from their laptops. 


Thanks if you can help

Liz

Liz Cowell
Learning and Skills Librarian
Learning & Information Services
University of Wolverhampton
Tel: 01902 322385
Email: E.Cowell at wlv.ac.uk


-----Original Message-----
From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Ron Mitchell
Sent: 20 December 2012 06:55
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: [Xerte] Re: resize problem with XOT 1.8 stops it working

This is almost certainly Flash player security I can't check right now but you need to add the path to your LO or drive as a trusted location.
Right click in the middle of the LO and select something like settings advanced trusted locations

HTH
Ron

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On 20 Dec 2012, at 00:16, "Cowell, Elizabeth" <E.Cowell at wlv.ac.uk> wrote:

> hello there,
> 
> I've found out that when I export content from XOT as html and load it in a browser it fails to resize the window properly when you select a new screen size. this seems to result in a truncation of the flash object as it is then contained in a div too small to display it and so you can't access the menu bars and it is unusable / unplayable. 
> 
> ie the HTML for the div containing the flash object after the flash object resize still has the dimensions set to 600 by 800 even tho the flash object is larger. at least that's what it seems to be at a quick glance. 
> 
> strangely if you host the same exported code on a local host xampp server and do the resize the javascript does then change the div size correctly.  so when testing everything works ok until exported to a host on a real server. no idea what's going on but is there a fix for this? 
> 
> I looked back at some older content I did with xerte and it has the same problem. 
> 
> 
> thanks if you can assist
> 
> regards
> 
> Liz Cowell
> skills development team
> university of Wolverhampton
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