Friday 26 August 05
After working at home for the last couple of days, I’ve made loads of progress with the updated Sled player. Here are some of the things I’ve done:
- Updated the activity and environment menu trees, so they appear combined, rather than 2 seperate menus. The player now also highlights the current pge you are on, and will remember this if you go to search or forum and return to activity (previously you just went back to the home apge)
- Given an option for users to switch to another course without having to navigate back to the login screen
- Linked the player up to the latest version of CopperCore, which uses the CCSI integration module (not released yet) and I’ve got the Sled player to run QTI
- Fixed the problem we had in the previous player where the display of some of the global content didn;t look quite right because the stylesheet was missing. I couldn;t just include the stylesheet from the CC player because that one uses frames so the stylesheets work ok as they are only applied to a single frame. In Sled the page is just one frame so adding the extra stylesheet messed up the whole page, I found that you can actually name a stylesheet element
- Made a good start on transferring the search and forum services (currently in the LDSToolkit module) to the CCSI, so that all the service requests are sent to the same module – would be a little odd if the player connected to CCSI for some services and the LDSToolkit for others
I’m now going to finish off the search and forum services so they run properly from the CCSI – at the moment the CCSi doesn;t connect to the actual service – just returns dummy data. Also been learning more about Ant build scripts, I knew a little about them before, but usually just from editing an existing one, so learning how to build them from scratch and do exactly what I want.
