Alex Little

Have spent the last few days sorting out some demo content (real content from a short professional development course), which I really need someone else to look over and check that it’s all ok – ie, it’s how a teacher/author would expect a prof. dev. course to look like when presented with learning design.

I got a new version of the coppercore engine through from OUNL so got that up and running quite quickly. I’ve also got the coppercore engine running standalone on my laptop. There were some problems here in that I had Windows XP Pro on the laptop, but for some reason MSDE wouldn’t install properly on XP Pro (couldn’t work out why as MS claim it should!), so ended up rebuilding the machine with W2K instead and all seems to be fine. Putting a new OS on seems a bit drastic – but there wasn;t anything on the machine that I needed to keep!

I’ve made an update to the player, so that rather than html content (a resource in the LD package) being displayed within an iframe, it is displayed directly in the page. There are a couple of drawbacks with what I’ve done here: 1) the html must be well formed – else the xml parser won’t transform the document, 2) any html tags you want to use must be explictly specified in the layout.xsl file and 3) so far, I’ve only tested it with files that are well formed ‘fragments’ of html files, ie they’ve not got all the header/ doc-type declarations etc at the top.
There probably are better ways of doing this, but this way should work for demo/testing purposes for now.