Tramping, Tales, Training and Travails
You're in a pickle with Captivate simulation sizes: You want to have as much room as possible so the simulation is as similar to the real system as possible. You don't want the size to scale up - being pictures, it gets fuzzy and looks bad once it's larger than 100%. You don't want the... Continue Reading →
Getting the learner name from the LMS is a nice wee trick to personalise a course (used sparingly!) Using whatever API (in this instance I was using Pipwerks SCORM 1.2 demo shell), var learnerName = get('cmi.core.student_name'); The SCORM standard stores the name as LastName, FirstName MiddleInitial, so the name comes out as 'Blair, Lawrence' for... Continue Reading →
I give Adobe a hard time on Craptivate (it is terrible) but I've just found something that doesn't quite suck – a way to report on courses without an LMS. And this comes packaged with Captivate - the 'Adobe Quiz Results Analyser'! It's very easy to set up: put 'internalServerReporting.php' and 'internalserverread.php' from your 'C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe... Continue Reading →
This uses the telize site to get a geolocation of an IP address. It's not 100% accurate but fine for country-level location, which is all I wanted. <script type="application/javascript"> function getgeoip(json){ //document.write("Geolocation information for IP address : ", json.ip); //document.write("Country : ", json.country); //document.write("Latitude : ", json.latitude); //document.write("Longitude : ", json.longitude); //document.write("Country: " + json.country);... Continue Reading →
using widgetfactory, you can access captivate items on the stage - and if you can do that, you can do ANYTHING with ANYTHING - very exciting! override protected function enterRuntime():void { var mc:MovieClip = getSlideObjectByName("item"); mc.addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, function() {mc.rotation++}); } src:http://www.infosemantics.com.au/widgetking/2010/10/slip-sliding-away/
For a popup window, with resizing enabled but no scrolling etc., popping up in a windows XP resolution of 1024x768, maximum recording size is: 1012x636. ------------ NEWSFLASH! 28.11.2014 with updated browsers forcing an address bar and the rest, new size: 1009x632 you can pop up the simulations with this js: window.open('try it.htm','simulation','scrollbars=0,width=1005,height=658,toolbar=0,menubar=0,location=0,status=0,resizeable=1'); The size is... Continue Reading →
Captivate uses \r instead of \n for line breaks.
Great for CP simulations. As easy as below (run from the js-opened child window/simulation) window.opener.focus(); window.close();
I've been trying to run javascript through Captivate to do some nice popup windows for a sub-simulation. When the javascript finally works, it'd replace the main clip with [object] - ie. it would run the URL in its own URL, so you'd see '[object] displayed on screen, rather than the CP movie! Pretty silly. Anyway,... Continue Reading →
I've been struggling with an issue of learning checks in a Captivate (5.5) course. I changed the 'skip' and 'back' buttons on a question slide to have the same style as the 'Next' and 'Back' buttons for the main navigation. However, what happened when reviewers actually used the course, is that if you went back... Continue Reading →
You can print a variable by putting $$'s around it in a caption. $$cpInfoPercentage$$ List of variables and what they do (ty!): http://www.cpguru.com/adobe-captivate-5-system-variables/
We had a problem where we wanted a module to only complete based on slide views. What we were getting in Moodle (Totara) was fine, it was marking complete fine, but it'd show all this 'you failed' and showing scores we weren't reporting and all sorts of crazy garbage. Captivate just sends all the garbage... Continue Reading →
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