Project Updates
A year ago this week, I launched the not-for-profit and ad-free pipwerks E-Learning Development Forum. It was mostly intended to be a way for me to answer questions about some of my projects, such as the SCORM API wrapper, SCORM ActionScript classes, and my many Captivate hacks. The forum wasn’
e-learning
I’ve had a number of people ask me about extending my SCORM helpers (the JavaScript-based SCORM API wrapper and the two ActionScript classes) in order to completely remove the need to know any of the “cmi” calls. For instance, being able to do something like this: scorm.bookmark = "
e-learning
The SCORM API wrapper (v1.1.7) has been updated to automatically set the initial course status and the exit status. The point of my SCORM API wrapper is to make working with SCORM easier. These two new functions are intended to ensure you follow best practices with your SCORM
Project Updates
Here’s a bunch of news updates regarding the pipwerks SCORM JavaScript wrapper. Time for class? A big fad these days is object-oriented JavaScript; libraries such as jQuery and MooTools make it really easy to create JavaScript “classes” (in quotes because from what I can gather, they’re really JavaScript
Adobe Flash
Geoff Stearns and Bobby van der Sluis have finalized SWFObject 2.0. It is no longer beta, and SWFObject 1.5 is now considered deprecated. SWFObject 2.0’s home is located at Google Code, which includes full documentation and downloads. I believe support will be handled by the SWFObject
SCORM actionscript class
Actually, I have two updates to report: SCORM API Wrapper updated to version 1.1.4 I’ve received a number of emails from folks who say their LMS can’t auto-detect the API. Therefore, by popular demand, the SCORM API Wrapper for JavaScript has a new feature: the ability
changelog
The pipwerks SCORM wrapper examples have been successfully tested in SumTotal TotalLMS 7.6. FYI, the examples’ imsmanifest.xml files required some modifications (the old manifests worked fine in the ADL test suites, but coughed a little when used in SumTotal TotalLMS 7.6). The JavaScript, ActionScript and HTML in
ActionScript
Finally got around to making some Flash files that demonstrate the pipwerks SCORM ActionScript classes. I’ve created examples for both AS2 and AS3. You can get them here. Both of these examples have been successfully tested using the latest ADL test suites for SCORM 1.2 and 2004. A
Project Updates
JavaScript SCORM_API_Wrapper.js now at v1.1.3 Changes: 1. Added SCORM.isAvailable() function; This allows Flash’s ExternalInterface to confirm the presence of the JavaScript wrapper before attempting any LMS communication. Parameters: none. Returns: Boolean (static, true). 2. Fixed an important typo: I had forgotten the empty
changelog
Small but important edits: * Added snippet of code to double-check API connection is active before returning a ‘true’ boolean value. * Fixed a typo for evaluating whether an error code has been returned from the LMS Also added some code from the Firebug folks that allows Firebug’s “console” functions to
e-learning
I just converted my AS2 SCORM class to AS3. Read documentation and download file(s) here. Note this class requires the pipwerks SCORM API wrapper for JavaScript. Not being much of an AS3 guy (so far!), it was easier than I expected; I guess since I had already used strong
ActionScript
Found a small bug when using the wrapper with Flash (AS2): functions that return string values (such as SCORM.data.get()) were coming out ‘undefined’. (grr) Explicitly typing the return value as a string seems to make Flash happy. return String(value); This all-in-one wrapper has now been tested successfully