Thoughts on using JavaScript in Adobe Captivate
I’ve been looking for ways to use JavaScript in Captivate. I’m a bit disappointed to report that JavaScript can only be used in very limited instances.
Making Actionscript calls from Adobe Captivate
Captivate 2.0 doesn’t include the ability directly manipulate Actionscript. This has been problematic for people like myself who have Flash-based ‘players’ that load and unload both Captivate SWFs and Flash SWFs; we often need the Captivate SWF to perform some kind of action when it reaches its end.
So here it is, the new site.
Announcing the latest iteration of pipwerks.com, dedicated to web technologies and e-learning.
Classes and OOP in Flash
Resources for learning about object-oriented programming in flash.
Flash and XML
Kirupa.com is a great resource for Flash tutorials, including how to use XML with Flash.
I have seen the future…
Thoughts on the pending the Adobe-Macromedia merger.
The Fonthead
A quickie blog about typography, with links to good resources.
I hate to say it…
InfoPath is a program for designing forms that are connected to a data source such as an Access database or… you guessed it… an XML document.
Online XML-to-XSD Converter
This week I needed to create an XML Schema doc for work. The XSD file would be used to validate XML files I’ll be making for my online courses. Well, being a newbie to XSD files (though not XML), I was making decent but very slow progress when a thought occurred to me: it should be possible to reverse-engineer an XML file to create an XSD file.
Today’s bit o’ knowledge: Firefox Web Developer Extension
Today I learned about chris pederick’s ultra-handy Web Developer Extension for Firefox