What a busy week. Flash is dead. Sort of, but not really. In case you haven’t heard, Adobe formally announced the discontinuation of Flash Player for mobile devices (“Flash to Focus on PC Browsing and Mobile Apps; Adobe to More Aggressively Contribute to HTML5“). Adobe employees struggled to come
The title says it all. The pipwerks CaptivateController now includes a set method that enables developers to set a Captivate variable’s value using JavaScript. var myMovie = CaptivateController("Captivate"); myMovie.set("myCustomCaptivateVariable", "Hello!"); Give the new set method a spin! Read about the CaptivateController
Update 10/25/2011: I’ve discovered that Apple provides Lion-ready versions of the older server management tools via a separate download from Apple, called Server Admin Tools 10.7 (link no longer available). I have amended my post to reflect the capabilities of the Server Admin Tools 10.7
Update 10/13/2011: I added more comments to the ActionScript code to help explain what each line of code does. I also added a Flash CS4 version of the FLA to the ZIP so more people can access the example. My “Planets” example (How to Add Basic SCORM Code
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. Comments Bobby wrote on August