Xerte v3.12
There are a number of new options which allow you to customise both the appearance and the tooltip of the footer interface buttons within a project.
Tooltips
Button tooltips appear when hovering over a button with your mouse and are also used by accessibility tools, such as screen readers, to describe the button's purpose. In some cases, for example the glossary, the tooltip also appears at the top of the dialog box that opens when the button is clicked. A Tooltip field1 where this text can be edited is now available when adding the optional property associated with the following buttons:
- Accessibility options
- Help
- Glossary
- Project introduction*
- Page introduction*
- Save / close session (part of the tracking optional property)
- Full screen / default
- Show / hide footer tools
- Show / hide side bar*
A new Navigation Buttons optional property allows editing of the tooltips of the following buttons (depending on your project's navigation type):
- Back
- Next
- Contents
- Home
*these options are new in v3.12. See later in these release notes for further details.
Button icons
When adding the optional property associated with the interface buttons (listed above) you will now see a Customise Button Icon checkbox2. When checked, an Icon option3 will be shown in which you can select a Font Awesome icon for the button to use.
In older themes, including the default Xerte Online Toolkit theme, interface buttons generally use images, rather than Font Awesome icons, to control the appearance of the interface buttons. Although the new customise button icon functionality described above can be used to individually force these buttons to use Font Awesome icons, it is possible to update all interface buttons to use a default set of Font Awesome icons in one go. Older themes where this is relevant will show a Update Theme Icons checkbox below the theme selector drop down menu. When checked, all buttons will be converted to use a default set of Font Awesome icons.
See the full release notes on Xerte's website: https://xot.xerte.org.uk/play.php?template_id=81#v312