[Xerte] Re: resize problem with XOT 1.8 stops it working
Cowell, Elizabeth
E.Cowell at wlv.ac.uk
Fri Dec 21 14:59:47 GMT 2012
Hi Ron,
So sorry, I originally confused the two issues being part of the same thing. The actual issue which is a concern is that it's not working when viewing an LO hosted on our web server.
It fails to reset the window size correctly on the following browsers in windows 7 :
* Chrome 23 (with flash 10)
* IE 9 with Flash 11 (but it works with flash 10)
(exact details given in the attached word document).
As IE with flash 11 is the standard browser config on all our student machines it's a little bit of a potential problem. However, if we could set Xerte to disable changing the screen size in some way then perhaps we would have a good workaround? I don't know if its possible to disable the menu bar options along the bottom? Also I will set the default window size to be full screen.
I don't know if this helps resolve things, thanks for your help. (am off until the new year now so happy new year to you all).
Regards
Liz
Liz Cowell
Learning and Skills Librarian
Learning & Information Services
University of Wolverhampton
Tel: 01902 322385
Email: E.Cowell at wlv.ac.uk<mailto:E.Cowell at wlv.ac.uk>
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 17:41
To: 'Xerte discussion list'
Subject: [Xerte] Re: resize problem with XOT 1.8 stops it working
Hi Liz
there may be two different things here but I was responding to your point about not being able to resize whilst viewing locally via index.htm
Here's a screenshot showing where to get to the trusted location settings. You can either add a folder path or just a drive letter but the latter in theory has more risk.
[cid:image001.jpg at 01CDDF77.AD2AFBB0]
Viewing an LO via a web server url including localhost shouldn't be affected by the trusted location setting so if that's not working either then it's a separate issue.
Let us know if the above fixes the issue
HTH
Ron
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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 Cowell, Elizabeth
Sent: 20 December 2012 16:02
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: resize problem with XOT 1.8 stops it working
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<mailto: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> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Cowell, Elizabeth
Sent: 20 December 2012 13:10
To: Xerte discussion list
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<mailto:E.Cowell at wlv.ac.uk>
-----Original Message-----
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 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<mailto: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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