[Xerte] Re: youtube movie dimensions

Tue Jan 3 12:42:51 GMT 2012

Thanks Julian - seems to work a treat! e.g. no more flash and snap back

For any sandpit users reading this - the new .rlm is now in place on the
sandpit

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 03 January 2012 11:51
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: [Xerte] Re: youtube movie dimensions

OK, a simple enough fix is to hide the youtube swf off the screen until
onPlayerLoad fires and then let the code in there reposition it. Then you
don't see the component flickering:

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/toolkits/play_6393

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Tom Reijnders
Sent: 21 December 2011 00:13
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: [Xerte] Re: youtube movie dimensions

Couldn't resist.... :-)
It depends a bit on the youtube model you have.

This is preliminary, I have no final fix (I am not at home, and have no
access to all I need)

If you have a version where you can set the size, it is more or less already
fixed.
If you are using an older model, you need to update the model, or change the
component.

This is (probably) caused by the fact that the default video size that
youtube sends has been changed from 320x240 to something larger.

SetSize is never called after initialisation, and Xerte assumes that the
size should be 320x240. If you use one of the newer model where you can set
the size, this works.

As far as I can tell you need to set the correct size in the onPlayerLoad
event handler script. See the toggle event handler for an example.

Tom

Op 20-12-2011 22:48, Julian Tenney schreef: 

If anyone's got nothing better to do, then the source code is in the
/templates folder of a xerte windows install, and the youtube docs are
online. Make a page templates project, and then compile youTubeComponent.fla
over the swf  in /common, and see what happens. The .fla is not
complicated...

...but you really ought to have better things to be doing at this time of
year...

...so Merry Christmas! Thanks to everyone for all the input this year, enjoy
the holidays, and we'll pick it all up again in the New year. 

Best wishes for a great 2012.

J

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From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of KnowledgeWare
[knowledgeware at kccsoft.com]
Sent: 19 December 2011 21:49
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: [Xerte] youtube movie dimensions

I'm still stuck on youtube movie sizing. When I enter a youtube movie page
the movie is oversized like in the image below to the left. I want it to
display in the preview window as the image below on the right.

I'd appreciate it if someone could try these links below and tell me if the
youtube movie (usually page 7) displays properly in the small preview window
or opens right off the page as in the image below left. On all my machines
here it is right off the page.

http://www.kccsoft.com/RGM/ssv51training/index.htm     (desktop version)

https://kccsoft.com/u2c/tk100714/play.php?template_id=410    (toolkits 1.5
version)

This just started a few days ago, up until then the page opened with the
movie in the preview window. I'm using the youtube older 'object' 'embed'
code. I've tried setting the xerte display mode from 'full screen' and 'full
window' to 'default', set text alignment to 'right' and tried removing the
variables off the end of the youtube URL, all to no effect.

If you play with the 'magnify' icon (click it three times) the movie will
resize back into the preview window, but that's too much to ask a user to
do. Is there a way I can initialize the movie size when the page loads or
somehow force the size (although it is set in the youtube embed code).

Thanks for any suggestions..am I missing something obvious?

RonM2

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