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SCORM Wrapper updated for improved Plateau support

Philip Hutchison

12 Jul 2011 — 1 min read

The pipwerks SCORM Wrapper has been updated with a small patch for handling odd behavior in the Plateau LMS. Special thanks to Joe Venditti for the patch (and sorry for taking almost 2 years to add it to the codebase!).

Get the latest version here.

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Bobby wrote on August 10, 2011 at 7:31 am:

Thanks for the update Philip! I test my content outside of a LMS environment. In that case, the code you've introduce causes a javascript error since win.top.opener is null. To combat this, I check for win.top.opener before checking for win.top.opener.document. I'm not sure this is worth adding, as I realize I'm in a unique situation. Just thought I would share my findings. Thanks again!

philip wrote on August 10, 2011 at 8:05 am:

interesting. thanks for the info.

tami wrote on August 25, 2011 at 7:20 am:

what if i have more functions in my original APIwrapper? (which i used with as2) can i simply paste them to this one?

philip wrote on August 25, 2011 at 7:43 am:

you're free to modify the wrapper as needed. if your custom functions were written for my previous pipwerks wrappers, you can probably copy and paste. if they were for non-pipwerks API wrappers, no, you can't just copy and paste. regardless, any modification should only be done if you have a good understanding of the wrapper and understand the effect your modifications will have.

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