Hi all. This is just to welcome you to the Hot Potatoes Users Group on Yahoo Groups. Feel free to post any questions relating to Hot Potatoes....
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willemdaemen
Feb 8, 2002 12:13 pm
Hi Martin, Feels different this new 'board'. Especially the adds are a little irritating. I hope it will generate the same input for your work as the old board...
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martindholmes
Feb 8, 2002 4:20 pm
Hi Wim, I agree, but it's our only practical option at the moment. At least one Yahoo login will allow you to join multiple groups. We tried to get a usenet...
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Martin Holmes
martindholmes
Feb 8, 2002 5:34 pm
Hi Wim, I agree, but we have no choice at the moment. Do you know of a better free alternative? Cheers, Martin ... ______________________________________ ...
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alfredo_colucci
Feb 8, 2002 9:06 pm
Hi Martin, Hi all, I'm glad to notice the changes, I'll follow you anywhere :-) Anyway I'm acting as tutor on Yahoo Groups with at least three Italian groups...
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Martin Holmes
martindholmes
Feb 8, 2002 10:36 pm
Hi Alfredo, Many thanks for the positive response. We do think that some of the features of Yahoo will be useful -- conducting polls is one -- and hopefully...
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dougjalain
Feb 9, 2002 4:22 am
Hi Martin, Just checking in. Looking forward to the discussions. Best Regards, Doug Jones National Autonomous University of Mexico at San Antonio, TX...
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martindholmes
Feb 9, 2002 8:26 pm
Welcome Doug!...
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tcatcarson
Feb 11, 2002 9:11 am
Hi, I am a teacher from Edinburgh in Scotland, and have just dicovered Hot Potatoes - excellent! I am working on the Edinburgh Grid for Learning at the...
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martindholmes
Feb 11, 2002 2:22 pm
Hi Lee, Could you post your exercise on a Website and send us the URL? We've had no reports of anything like this before, so we'll need to see the page to...
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jmacleod_staff
Feb 11, 2002 5:07 pm
Hi It is my understanding that for K-12 schools, Hot Potatoes can be used at no cost as long as the files created are made freely available on the web. At my...
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martindholmes
Feb 11, 2002 6:32 pm
Hi there, Your understanding is correct. As long as all the materials can be accessed on a public site, you can put copies of them in Manhattan too. Cheers, ...
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joostverschaeve
Feb 18, 2002 2:41 pm
Hello new group, Can anybody tell me if the "old" board is already out of use? I can't get into it today. As I had only yesterday posted a few questions, I'd...
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Martin Holmes
martindholmes
Feb 18, 2002 5:56 pm
Hi Joost, The old board is still there, and I answered your questions on it. We'll probably take it down in a couple of weeks. Cheers, Martin ... ...
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madamevert
Feb 18, 2002 6:38 pm
I don't have anything to post because I've run into a snag making the web page with JCloze (Mac version). I spent quite a bit of time figuring out how to...
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slarneil
Feb 18, 2002 9:21 pm
The Hot Potatoes application is looking for HTML source files with specific file names in the source folder in the Hot Potatoes folder. If it can't find the...
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thebaultc
Feb 26, 2002 9:30 pm
I have tried an exercise with JCloze including the "HINT" button. If you use this button during the exercise and check at the end you get the following mesage:...
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revsnr
Feb 26, 2002 9:43 pm
I sincerely apologise if this appears anywhere on an FAQ bulletin. As an English teacher in the UK I am enchanted with HP and have used so much of it to...
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Martin Holmes
martindholmes
Feb 26, 2002 10:01 pm
Hi there, Put one letter on each line. The tutorial contains an example of this; if you load the example data file into JMix you'll see how it works. Cheers, ...
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Martin Holmes
martindholmes
Feb 26, 2002 10:01 pm
Hi there, If you use the Hint button to get all the correct answers, you should lose points for every time you use it (down to 0 if you use it for all the ...
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Pete MacKichan
language_tec...
Feb 27, 2002 10:33 am
Hi everyone I have a problem which I hope someone can help me. It concerns CGI, but it isn't a CGI problem as it works just fine. I have an JQuiz exercise...
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Pete MacKichan
language_tec...
Feb 27, 2002 10:40 am
I have another browser problem. I have a simple Matching exercise. Now the two drag and drop outputs sniff to see which browser I am using. As I am using Opera...
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thebaultc
Feb 27, 2002 4:11 pm
... Hi Martin, I would very much like to send you the exercise but I am not a specialist in computers. The exercise is on my hard disk. Do you mean I can send...
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thebaultc
Feb 27, 2002 4:30 pm
... mean ... By the way I create a HTML web page compatible with version 3 browsers.Simply because I change the background colour and it looks better in HTML. ...
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Martin Holmes
martindholmes
Feb 27, 2002 4:55 pm
Hi Pete, First of all, I should note that we don't support Opera or run it, so I'm afraid you're on your own there. We haven't had any other reports of CGI...
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Martin Holmes
martindholmes
Feb 27, 2002 4:55 pm
Hi again, Opera's implementation of CSS, JavaScript and the DOM is not as extensive as IE or NS 6; I would expect drag-drop exercises to fail on Opera. Cheers,...
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martindholmes
Feb 27, 2002 4:59 pm
Hi there, If you're using the V3 output, then all bets are off -- it's the same output format that version 3 of Hot Potatoes used, and the exercise functions...
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Pete MacKichan
language_tec...
Feb 27, 2002 5:34 pm
... Yes I realise that. :-) I just thought it might have come up. ... No sooner said than done. I have just uploaded a very simple exercise with one question...
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Martin Holmes
martindholmes
Feb 27, 2002 5:58 pm
Hi Pete, Problem with NS 6.2 confirmed and reproduced -- we'll get to work on it! Cheers, Martin ... ______________________________________ Martin Holmes ...
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Martin Holmes
martindholmes
Feb 27, 2002 8:01 pm
Hi Pete, Found the problem -- it will be fixed in the next version, but if you need a quick fix, here it is: In the source code, you'll find this: var NewWin =...
