HTML/Java Book Tips
When building your book to export to
HTML and Java, be sure to pay attention to the following:
- Be sure not to overlap any objects on your pages.
This includes objects that may reside in your background
such as record fields and buttons. Any overlapping
objects will cause errors during the export to HTML
process, and will not export!
- Pop up windows do not work the
same in HTML export as they do in normal Assistant books.
When you hyperlink to pop up a new page, your browser
will load the page in a new browser window. You do not
have control over that window's size!
- Do not use pop up windows in feedback for
question widgets. These pop ups do not function when
exported to HTML.
- Do not use the Neuron placeholder widget!
The widget does not export the proper HTML code (a yet to
be fixed bug). Use the embed file widget instead. This
widget works fine in both Internet Explorer and Netscape
in versions 3 and above.
- There is a bug in the fill-in-the-blank question
widget which does not allow feedback for wrong answers. To
work around this problem, follow these instructions:
- Change the <anything else>
incorrect response tag to correct.
- Then immediate feedback will work and the
feedback text itself can still pertain to an
incorrect answer.
- The scoring weight for the wrong answers can
be 0% so that no credit is given.
- Assistant limits the contents of a single page or
background to 64 k. This means that if you go
over this content limit you will get an error message
stating you have no room left on the page. Be aware of
this limitation as you are creating your book.
- Be sure to use the correct location for the Java
class files. If the URL is incorrect, your
exported book will not function. The correct URL if you
use the MJC student server is
http://student.yosemite.cc.ca.us/cmpgr287/java
- If you place the class files on your own server,
place the unzipped
Java class files in the /java directory.
Be sure that you use WinZip 95, so that you
retain long file names. Sentence case is very important!
Do not alter filenames!
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