[Xerte] Re: XOT exported to DVD - web links no longer working?

[Pat Lockley]

When I used to make CDs of stuff I would make an auto play .HTA for
the CD / DVD.
This would cover Windows and IE people (pretty much everyone).

For FF and Chrome I just left a HTML file and instructions on flash.

On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Nicki Keating
<Nicki.Keating at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
> OK ... I have now edited the Adobe Flash Player global settings and adding the D: drive to the trusted location settings, and this seems to have fixed it all in IE, FF and Chrome.  HTM works fine, and the links are clickable.
>
> But ... I just kind of wanted the LO to open without anyone having to fiddle with their browser settings _too_ much (people are pretty used to allowing popups now, but maybe not so au fait with flash player settings).  But I guess I might have to live with this if I want to produce XOT on a DVD in a prison.
>
> Thanks for getting me this far at least, Pat :-)
>
> Nicki
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat Lockley
> Sent: 08 March 2012 12:20
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> Subject: [Xerte] Re: XOT exported to DVD - web links no longer working?
>
> hta is a IE thing for IE security
>
> Does the HTM cause a problem in chrome and FF
>
> On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Nicki Keating
> <Nicki.Keating at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
>> No luck at all on Firefox or Chrome (only IE 8+ seems to like the HTA extension) so perhaps not the right fix after all (it's for running in a prison, hence restricted internet access, plus I don't know how up to date their browsers are).
>>
>> There's no option to select 'local export' btw, I just went to Export in the Project Properties and clicked Zip Export, and it spits out a zip file.
>>
>> Nicki
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat Lockley
>> Sent: 08 March 2012 12:03
>> To: Xerte discussion list
>> Subject: [Xerte] Re: XOT exported to DVD - web links no longer working?
>>
>> try it on a different browser just to be sure it's not cached and stuff
>>
>> Did you select "local export" in XOT when you exported - I can make
>> the export produce a HTA if better? / Alternative?
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Nicki Keating
>> <Nicki.Keating at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
>>> Thanks Pat, that certainly seems to have done the trick (at least, on the one PC I've just tried it on!).  I renamed the index.htm file that _was_ produced automatically when you export the ZIP file, to index.hta and all is well again.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>> Nicki
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat Lockley
>>> Sent: 08 March 2012 11:51
>>> To: Xerte discussion list
>>> Subject: [Xerte] Re: XOT exported to DVD - web links no longer working?
>>>
>>> i think it needs to be within a .hta on a DVD doesn't it? (which
>>> translates as a security setting)
>>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 11:36 AM, Dave Burnett <d_b_burnett at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>> First thing I would suspect is a security setting.
>>>>
>>>> ________________________________
>>>> From: Nicki.Keating at nottingham.ac.uk
>>>> To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>>>> Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2012 11:24:09 +0000
>>>> Subject: [Xerte] XOT exported to DVD - web links no longer working?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi there
>>>>
>>>> Has anyone else tried to export an XOT LO (for distribution on a DVD), and
>>>> then found that the weblinks in a page no longer work?
>>>>
>>>> The HTML code is fine (it works when I run XOT via the web), and when you
>>>> right-click on a link, on the DVD version, you can even copy the URL and
>>>> paste it into a new tab, BUT nothing happens when you click a link directly.
>>>>
>>>> Or does this work OK for others that have exported it?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for any advice.
>>>>
>>>> Nicki
>>>>
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