Joseph Rézeau

Mark,
Can you read those quiz results OK when switching to standard theme? If yes, then there must be something wrong in your customized theme somewhere. And then it's difficult for us to help you without looking at your custom theme.
Joseph

Hi James,
It is not quite clear what you are intending to do. Do you mean that you want to create from scratch a new Glossary outside of Moodle, using an XML editor and then import that file into a Moodle Glossary? Are you quite sure you have the right template to do that? Which XML editor are you using?
Can you post on this forum a sample glossary thay you have created and cannot manage to import?
Joseph

I have recently come across a most intriguing bug in the little MP3 Flash player included in Moodle distributions. Tested in Moodle 1.6 and 1.7, but bug should be present in all versions of Moodle.

A bug

1. One one resource HTML page (either uploaded to course files or created using the "compose a Web page" resource tool), place more than 15 links to MP3 files.
2. Go to that page, using FireFox (1.5 or 2.0) browser.
3. Click on the play button ► of any of the 15+ Flash players.
4. The play button is replaced with the || pause button and...
   
5. the MP3 file starts playing and stops immediately (less than a second).
6. Move your cursor away from the || pause button...
7. The MP3 file re-starts playing!
8. Moving the cursor over and away from the pause button in the currently playing Flash player (or any other of the Flash players on the page) gives unpredictable results: the MP3 sound is sometimes stopped, sometimes resumed, etc.

A remedy

In file moodle/filter/mediaplugin/filter.php line 44

$replace .= " quality=\"high\" bgcolor=\"#333333\" width=\"90\" height=\"15\" name=\"mp3player\" ";

simply replace height=\"15\" with height=\"17\"

Simply increasing the width of the Flash player by 2 pixels solves the problem. Weird, isn't it?

Looking forward to a) confirmation of the existence of the bug and b) validity of remedy from other users of the Moodle Flash MP3 player.

Yours bewildered,

Joseph

Dan,

There have been a fairly large number of changes in the behaviour of themes between Moodle 1.5 and 1.6. You say you are using in Moodle 1.7 an old custom theme based on standard 1.5. This means potentially running into problems in a number of areas. Could you not envisage starting your custom theme again, basing it on Moodle 1.7's standard theme?

Of course, you can always follow Mauno's advice and try to adjust your current CSS files.

Finally, if you had this theme actually visible on a live site, giving us guest access would help us help you.

Joseph

Hi Chris,

Personally I am quite frustrated when I realize the amount of log information that is available in the database and how little it is possible to retrieve through the current Reports module available in Moodle. What I would like to have is a fully customizable reports interface, in which I could select all the log info I need to create my own reports, without of course the "horror" of extracting data through SQL commands.

Any takers?

Joseph