Infrastructure presentation started
First, the pointer demo/testing ground I talked about in the last two posts has moved to the second “dummy course item” on the homepage. The first one now is being used for development of a “real course” - which in this case is the overview over this very infrastructure itself, which is being developed simultaneously!
The video/audio still does not play any part in the “presentation”, neither does the navigatin work, the contents just plays (it’s not much). It is going to come last. Then I can switch the functions controlling the presentation from Javascript “setTimeout()” to being triggered by cue points in the flash video - i.e. it will cost me a minute at most. So of course I’ll do the video last and develop the presentation itself, i.e. contents, text and “flow”.
I am using a function that dynamically resizes all text components of the presentation to the maximum possible - you can try it out by using a very small or a very large window. You will be able to see that the text will always use all space, because it is resized.
I do that by increasing the text size until clientHeight is less than scrollHeight, and if that is so I stop and go back one step (the very last size increase caused page contents to overflow).
Next: Finishing the presentation and with it the infrastructure it explains. Implement navigation. Create a video - the texts and images are supposed to HELP the presentation but not BE it, after all. Then switch to cue point control, et voila - first course is ready. This is still going to take some time… and of course, it’s never really finished since it is going to continue to be developed, both the infrastructure (code) and the course showing how it works and how to use it.
Mörre