[Xerte] Re: Getting items to stay put after a TargetArea interaction. Desktop Xerte 2.17

Mon Mar 26 19:57:35 BST 2012

I've combined them all into a single response icon, and it's doing what
I want it to do. I'm not going to worry about the x and y properties of
the response icon ... I don't think they matter for my application.

Paul

From: Paul Swanson 
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2012 11:48 AM
To: Dave Burnett (d_b_burnett at hotmail.com)
Subject: RE: Getting items to stay put after a TargetArea interaction.
Desktop Xerte 2.17

I've noticed that if I have just one response with two of the graphics
listed in the dragItems property and the script icon modified to capture
both graphics positions, it seems to do what I want. I'm wondering what
the ramifications, if any, of setting the x and y properties of the
response to a single location are. I'm suspecting it won't matter for
what I'm doing.

From: Paul Swanson 
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2012 11:44 AM
To: 'Dave Burnett'
Subject: RE: Getting items to stay put after a TargetArea interaction.
Desktop Xerte 2.17

For me, only the "Ask a Question" box stays where you drag it to when
you return to the page. The others go back to their original positions.
I want them to remain where they were dragged to.

From: Dave Burnett [mailto:d_b_burnett at hotmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2012 11:40 AM
To: Paul Swanson
Subject: RE: Getting items to stay put after a TargetArea interaction.
Desktop Xerte 2.17

What's not happening?
I'm d/d ing, going to page 3 and back, and they are in the same spots.

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Subject: RE: Getting items to stay put after a TargetArea interaction.
Desktop Xerte 2.17
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 11:34:49 -0700
From: Paul.Swanson at harlandfs.com
To: d_b_burnett at hotmail.com
Hi Dave,

Here's the whole thing. It's the second page that I'm working on. I
haven't done the scripting part for the third page.

Thanks!
Paul

From: Dave Burnett [mailto:d_b_burnett at hotmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2012 11:28 AM
To: Paul Swanson
Subject: Getting items to stay put after a TargetArea interaction.
Desktop Xerte 2.17

Can you send a chunk that exhibits it?
Dave

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Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 11:20:59 -0700
From: Paul.Swanson at harlandfs.com
To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
Subject: [Xerte] Getting items to stay put after a TargetArea
interaction. Desktop Xerte 2.17
I'm running into an issue getting graphics to stay at the location where
they were dragged to in a targetArea interaction. What I'm attempting to
accomplish is to have the items appear in their dropped location after
the user has navigated to a different page and then back to the page
with the targetArea interaction. On the page I'm currently working on I
have 6 graphics, whose initial positions are set by variables in my
setup script that loads before the Interface icon. The graphic icons
have the variable names for the x and y properties. I have a single
Interaction icon, with multiple TextArea responses. The responses also
use the variable names for the x and y properties, with the w and h
properties set to stageWidth and stageHeight, respectively. Each
response has dragItems set to "iconIDofGraphic~leave~endDrag." Each
response has a script icon attached which sets the x and y variables to
the current x and y coordinates of the graphic. Each response has the
Exit property set to 0, and the interaction is not perpetual. 

What happens is the first response I created works as intended, but the
other responses do not seem to process the script icon. So here are my
questions:
1.       Should I just have a single response icon with all of the
graphics listed in the dragItems property? So instead of 6 responses
with dragItems of "askAquest~leave~endDrag", "userInfo~leave~endDrag",
"addlAssistance~leave~endDrag", "recentArticles~leave~endDrag",
"popularArticles~leave~endDrag", and "customerCenter~leave~endDrag"
should I have a single response with
""askAquest~leave~endDrag,userInfo~leave~endDrag,addlAssistance~leave~en
dDrag,recentArticles~leave~endDrag,popularArticles~leave~endDrag,custome
rCenter~leave~endDrag" and then a script icon that captures all of the
graphics current positions?
2.       If so, what should the x and y properties of the response icon
be? Is that supposed to be the "correct" location of a judged response?
This isn't an assessment, I'm just using Xerte to build a visual tool to
allow users to give us their preferred location of sections of a web
page, so there is no right or wrong position of the graphics.

Paul Swanson
Internal Business Systems Analyst
Internal Business Intelligence
Harland Financial Solutions
(800) 274-7280 Ext. 2462
Paul.Swanson at harlandfs.com

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