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. As you may have heard, Adobe
If you spend any time using Adobe 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
SCORM courses use JavaScript to send data to the LMS. This data then sits in the browser until the LMS writes it to the database (usually via AJAX or form posts). As previously discussed, invoking commit (save) will ensure the LMS actually writes this data to a database. But what
A number of people have recently asked me about the scorm.save() function in the pipwerks SCORM wrappers. What is it, and when should it be used? The pipwerks scorm.save() function is a shortcut for SCORM’s Commit (SCORM 2004) and LMSCommit (SCORM 1.2) methods. Invoking commit in
Here’s a handy way to determine if two JavaScript objects are identical without using a framework like jQuery or MooTools: var compare_objects = function (obj1, obj2) { var parameter_name; var compare = function (objA, objB, param) { var param_objA = objA[param], param_objB = typeof objB[param] === "undefined" ? false