Xerte 3.0

Xerte 3 is a complete re-write of Xerte, using the Flex framework and written in FlashDevelop. The project is currently a beta - there is much to do, but it functions right now and you should be able to create real content with it, and start exploring the interface. Xerte 3 is written in ActionScript 3.0 and is built on the Flex 4 SDK using FlashDevelop. Xerte 3.0 changes the way Xerte works a little bit, but is much more powerful, and makes things that were difficult to do in Xerte 2 quite easy, and allows you to do some things that Xerte 2 simply could not do. Overall, you will write less code in Xerte 3.0 and have access to a much richer set of functionality.

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Features

Actionscript 3.0 Codebase; event driven, with a rich set of events; not a flowline, no interaction icons - everything is 'interactive' through event handlers; much easier to handle codebase; functions, recursion, databinding; better event handlers and event objects, e4x, syntax highlighting, better debugging, runtime error messages, switch statements, complete documentation using asdoc; media importing and conversion to .flv / .mp3; much more accessible editor; pseudo 3D and x,y and z coordinates for all components; constraint-based and fluid layouts; many automatic layout options with HBox, VBox, Tile; much better handling of dynamic text - can rotate, much better anti aliasing; 62 icons or thereabouts, including many that were hard to do before (accordion, tabset) and some that were impossible (tree, list, datagrid); Rich set of styles; runtime style sheets through styleManager.loadStyleDeclarations and app.stylesheet property; good set of filters and effects, icons for easily creating effects and composite effects; Support for template data with a repeater icon and templateData property; support for models; much better drag and drop support between components; dataProviders and data-centric development: ArrayCollection, XMLListCollection icons etc; support for editing and previewing models; media Synching events and much much more.

The Xerte Project

The Xerte Project is managed and led by Julian Tenney of the IS Learning Team at The University of Nottingham. Patrick Lockley looks after the web development of Xerte Online Toolkits. Andy Beggan is the project's sponsor.

For further information about the Xerte Project, visit the website: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/xerte

All questions should be directed to the mailing list. http://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/xerte

A community wiki about the software and the project can be found at http://wiki.xerte.net.