[Xerte] Re: How does Xerte handle style sheets?

[Kemp Johnathan]

Hello Julian,

Thanks for that, the layout script is now running after the style sheet has
loaded.

Kind regards

Johnathan

On 24 February 2012 09:50, Julian Tenney <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk>wrote:

> I think you probably want an event broadcasting ‘onLoadStyles’ that you
> can listen for and then make your scripted changes in the event response.
> I’ve just added that.
>
>
>
> *From:* xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:
> xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of *Kemp Johnathan
> *Sent:* 22 February 2012 16:14
> *To:* Xerte discussion list
> *Subject:* [Xerte] Re: How does Xerte handle style sheets?
>
>
>
> There have been so many releases of key files that I have tended to keep
> the old copies.
>
>
>
> I have worked my way through the previous releases of XMLengine.swf and it
> appears to have been a change that came in with the version with a date
> stamp of the 8th of February. The version of the 4th of February allows the
> combination of xwd stylesheet and scripted settings to co-exist. The
> version released on the 8th Feb resets the scripted colour changes.
>
>
>
> Hope that helps narrow it down a bit.
>
>
>
> Kind regards
>
>
>
> Johnathan
>
>
>
> On 22 February 2012 15:26, Julian Tenney <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk>
> wrote:
>
> Can you try the engine in the svn? I did some work on loadstyles last week,
> ________________________________________
> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [
> xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Kemp Johnathan [
> johnathan.kemp at ntlworld.com]
> Sent: 22 February 2012 14:55
> To: Xerte discussion list
> Subject: [Xerte] How does Xerte handle style sheets?
>
>
> I am developing a default rlo file for Xerte 2.18 individual page template
> projects and have a working experimental layout editor included that sets
> as many colours and positions for things as I can find how to do.
>
> There are some settings that I have not found a way to set from a script
> so these I have to set using a style sheet. The example in this case is the
> titleBarColour.
>
> I am experiencing something rather strange.
>
> I have a style sheet and all it does is set the titleBarColour to red
>
> colourScheme {
> titleBarColour: 0xFF0000;
>  }
>
> If I load the style sheet via the property panel of the learning object
> then all is well and all it does is set the titleBarColour to red and the
> rest of the screen settings that I have set in code work correctly.
>
> However if instead of using the property panel I use a field in the xwd
> form associated with the learning object and then use the code
>
> //stylesheet
> if (templateData.learningObject[0].stylesheet != undefined){
> rootIcon.loadStyleSheet(expression(templateData.learningObject[0].stylesheet,
> this));
> }
>
> to load the style sheet, then all the colour settings that I have made by
> script get reset. The screen flashes briefly with my set colours and then
> reverts to the default colours other than those set in the style sheet.
> Which is not what I want to happen.
>
> I have attached a pdf with screen shots showing the difference.
>
> Is there a way of loading the stylesheet using the xwd form without having
> it overwrite the changes I have made in script?
>
> Incidentally this even happens if I run my script to change the screen
> settings after I run the script that loads the style sheet.
>
> You can see settings such as button position persist, just the colours
> settings are rendered ineffective.
>
> Kind regards
>
> Johnathan
>
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