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Fri, 09 May 2008 20:55:30 +0000

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By: Philip Hutchison

Philip Hutchison — Mon, 05 May 2008 18:53:58 +0000

Hi Mark

Please use the forum for this kind of inquiry.

Short answer:
You can use SCORM 1.2’s “cmi.core.lesson_location” for storing bookmark data. Please read the ADL’s documentation.

To get and set the bookmark data:
scorm.get(”cmi.core.lesson_location”);
scorm.set(”cmi.core.lesson_location”, “myBookmarkInStringFormat”);

Regarding using this data for jumping around in the course, it’s up to the course developer to configure their ActionScript to set/get/use the bookmark data at appropriate times.

By: Mark Butler

Mark Butler — Mon, 05 May 2008 18:35:58 +0000

I fixed the problem I posted about before (that’s by the by). However, I’ve just been told that, now that everything is working perfectly we need to add another function. We need the user to be able to pickup where they left off after they prematurely exit a course. It’s not working now, and I don’t have a single clue as to how to do it. I’m assuming that it’s a variable involving the APIwrapper.js. So, will there need to be some kind of code added on every frame that the next lesson in a course starts?

By: Philip Hutchison

Philip Hutchison — Fri, 02 May 2008 20:52:52 +0000

@Mark

The SCORM classes are independent of loadmovie and all other AS components/classes (SCORM.as doesn’t extend anything, and only uses ExternalInterface). It shouldn’t have any effect on your loaded SWFs.

Without seeing your FLA/SWFs, I can’t really give you any specific advice. If you’d like to share links and perhaps walk through the code, please post this issue in the elearning development forum and we’ll go from there.

By: Mark Butler

Mark Butler — Fri, 02 May 2008 20:41:07 +0000

This is fantastic! It’s addressed every issue I had with telling the LMS whether the user finished or not, and related server-side problems. Sadly, it created a new problem. Once my “Master” swf loads a portion of the lesson, it’ll play 15-20 frames and stop. Nothing I try seems to work. I can’t get my loadMovie to play! Please share your ultimate wisdom and tell me why this is most likely happening.

The set-up is, I have a master swf that’s say, 30 frames long, each frame loads a new swf into a blank MC, they vary as to what is contained. Drag and drop, XML driven exercises , or just text scrolling on screen. It doesn’t matter what is loading, they hit the point where the audio would start and freeze. I don’t know if it’s because the preloader is being skipped, or it just doesn’t like audio, or what.