Wednesday 29 September 04
Just about now got to grips (I think!) with how properties are defined in LD. I thought at first that the properties were just defined in the main LD XML – and in a sense they are, but, to be able to allow users to set/change properties, then extra xml files need to be included in the LD package in order to display the form for the user to update.
Using one of the examples the OUNL team gave me with their 2nd version of the CopperCore engine, I’ve figured out how this should all be working – and I’ve made some changes to their stylesheet for displaying the globalcontent/properties update form. Not significant changes at this point. I now need to update the player servlet so that when the form is posted back the updates are actually sent back to CopperCore.
The next step after this is to sort out the ‘supported-person’ options. An LD can be set up so that (for example) a teacher can look at the properties/global content that one of their learners has entered. All of this is being made much harder by the lack of sample content – just one or 2 examples aren’t really enough!
There still seems to be much to do – and I’m not sure that I’ll have it up to LD level C before the end of the project. Still got quite a lot of tidying up in the code to and writing up (comments/explanations etc) and also change the player so it connects to CopperCore using web services, rather than the current internal java calls.
