[LON-CAPA-users] flash and xml files

[Gerd Kortemeyer]

Hi,

It's probably an access control problem.

You'll need to explicitly <allow> access to the dependent files.

<allow src="/res/...../....xml/" />

or publish those files with "Copyright/Distribution" set to "public."

- Gerd.

On Jun 5, 2008, at 6:54 PM, Todd Ruskell wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We're experimenting with some flash content in LON-CAPA.  In general,
> this works fine but we've come across an interesting problem.  One of
> our tools (authorPoint) actually creates several .swf files, and links
> them all together under a single .swf file.  For some reason, it uses
> three *.xml files which contain configuration data.  As an example,  
> one
> of them is listed below.
>
> When the entire tree us uploaded into LON-CAPA, the swf works fine in
> construction space.  As I publish all the included swf files it
> continues to work fine.  But as soon as I publish one of these xml  
> files
> the swf refuses to load.  If I, for example, re-upload the file to
> change the "published" tag to modified, the swf still doesn't upload.
> So I'm wondering if LON-CAPA somehow does something "bad" to these xml
> files that would make them unreadable?  I can provide a full swf  
> tree if
> that might help in debugging.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Todd
>
>
> <---file contents start right after this line--->
> xml encoding="UTF-8" version="1.0"
> <layout>
> 	<header text="mcHeader" value="true" />
> 	<video text="mcVideo" value="false" />
> 	<audio text="mcAudio" value="false" />
> 	<tab>
> 		<toc position="1" value="false" />
> 		<links position="2" value="false" />
> 		<search position="3" value="false" />
> 		<authorInfo position="4" value="false" />
> 		<thumbNail position="5" value="false" />
> 	</tab>
> 	<logo text="mcLogoBase" value="false" />
> 	<navigationControl>
> 		<previous text="mcControl" value="true" />
> 		<play text="mcPlay" value="true" />
> 		<pause text="mcPause" value="true" />
> 		<stop text="mcStop" value="true" />
> 		<replay text="mcReplay" value="true" />
> 		<next text="mcNext" value="true" />
> 	</navigationControl>
> 	<slider text="mcSlider" value="true" />
> 	<print text="mcPrint" value="true" />
> 	<notes text="mcNotes" value="true" />
> 	<volume text="mcSoundSlider" value="true" />
> 	<volBtn text="mcSoundBtn" value="true" />
> </layout>
>
> -- 
> Dr. Todd Ruskell
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