Posts tagged ‘Adobe Captivate’
Complete List of Variables for Adobe Captivate 5
Posted Monday, August 23rd, 2010.
Filed under JavaScript, e-learning with the tags ActionScript, Adobe Captivate, Adobe Captivate Hacks, CaptivateController, e-learning, JavaScript
While updating my CaptivateController script I noticed there have been some changes to the Captivate variables available to Captivate developers. I figured I should document them for future reference.
Note that some variables available in CP3 and CP4 are no longer available. The following list should be exhaustive for CP5; variables for previous versions of Captivate [...]
CaptivateController Updated to Support Adobe Captivate 5
Posted Monday, August 23rd, 2010.
Filed under JavaScript, e-learning with the tags ActionScript, Adobe Captivate, Adobe Captivate Hacks, CaptivateController, e-learning, How-to, JavaScript
By popular demand, I’ve updated my CaptivateController to work with Adobe Captivate 5 (CP5). Since this is an open-source project, there’s no upgrade fee. (What? “Adobe” and “no upgrade fee” in the same paragraph?!) I kid, I kid… I’m a kidder.
Adobe Captivate: What the heck is g_intAPIType?
Posted Wednesday, August 18th, 2010.
Filed under SCORM, e-learning with the tags Adobe Captivate, Adobe Captivate Hacks, e-learning, How-to, SCORM
If you do spend any time using Captivate to create SCORM-conformant courses, you’re bound to have run into an issue or two that caused you to read some Captivate forum posts. Almost without fail, someone will mention that the solution to their problem was changing the value of the magical g_intAPIType JavaScript variable from 1 to 0 or from 0 to 1.
So what the heck is g_intAPIType, and why does changing it make a difference?
Customizing SCORM Manifests in Captivate and Articulate Presenter
Posted Wednesday, May 19th, 2010.
Filed under SCORM, e-learning with the tags Adobe Captivate, Adobe Captivate Hacks, Articulate Presenter, How-to, learning management systems, SCORM
Someone recently asked me if it was possible to customize Captivate’s SCORM template to reduce the need for manual editing after publishing. In her case, the manifest needed to be edited to include SumTotal TotalLMS’s custom SCORM extensions. The answer is yes. Here’s how.
What feature is missing from your e-learning development tool?
Posted Tuesday, January 26th, 2010.
Filed under e-learning with the tags Adobe Captivate, Adobe Flash, Articulate, development tools, e-learning, e-learning tools, HTML, JavaScript, Lectora
I have some simple questions I’d love to get feedback on.
I’m curious about what people are looking for in their e-learning authoring tools, specifically:
What feature is your current tool missing that you would love to see implemented? Support for team collaboration? Support for themes or custom CSS styling? Support for language localization? A [...]
Captivate 4 Variables in PDF Format
Posted Saturday, September 26th, 2009.
Filed under e-learning with the tags Adobe Captivate, Adobe Captivate Hacks
Kurt Melander was kind enough to clean up my Captivate 4 variable list and convert it to PDF format for those who’d like to print it out. Get it here. Thanks, Kurt!
CaptivateController updated
Posted Saturday, September 26th, 2009.
Filed under General with the tags Adobe Captivate, Adobe Captivate Hacks, CaptivateController
The CaptivateController has been updated to fix the gotoSlideAndPlay and gotoSlideAndStop bugs.
Introducing the CaptivateController
Posted Sunday, June 7th, 2009.
Filed under General, e-learning with the tags Adobe Captivate, Adobe Captivate Hacks, Adobe E-Learning Suite, CaptivateController, e-learning, How-to, JavaScript
It took me much much longer than I anticipated, but I am happy to announce the new CaptivateController utility.
This controller is not a simple rehash of the original pipwerks.captivate.control utility; it is a complete re-write that adds a number of extra features.
Captivate 4 variables gone wild
Posted Saturday, May 16th, 2009.
Filed under e-learning with the tags ActionScript, Adobe Captivate, Adobe Captivate Hacks, How-to, JavaScript
The folks at Adobe recently published a list of Captivate 4 variables. While it’s a solid list, it’s not really a complete list.
LegacyCaptivateLoader example updated
Posted Monday, March 23rd, 2009.
Filed under e-learning with the tags ActionScript, Adobe Captivate, Adobe Captivate Hacks, JavaScript, LegacyCaptivateLoader
Just a note to point out that I updated the LegacyCaptivateLoader example to use SWFObject 2.1 (dynamic publishing).