Captivate in a popup window INSIDE a sco

Question

I am trying to create the following - this is a single sco
scorm module:
Picture an HTML frameset, with one frame being a tracking
frame, and the
other to hold content.
In the content frame would appear in succession a number of
pages, each with
a link that pops up a captivate window. The interactions in
each captivate
window should talk to the API. Unfortunately they don't - and
I am having
trouble figuring out where the breakdown is. When I put in an
alert to see
if the captivate window detects the API, it definitely has
done so.
It also seems to send an LMSInitialize call, which I don't
want, since the
containing sco has already done so. But after that, it sends
nothing at all,
as far as I can tell, using the scorm test-wrapper and my
java console.
I'm not sure whether the issue is the extra LMSInitialize? Or
a path issue?
Thanks,
Ellen

Answer 1

If I'm following you, what you're describing doesn't work
because it
breaks the SCORM spec.
Whatever the LMS directly launches must be the SCO. What
makes any given
content package a SCO is the learning content, the manifest,
and the
javascript (or whatever) that finds the API. That javascript
is going to
look in parent HTML document that launched it for that API.
You can't have a SCO in a SCO... By launching the frameset,
which needs
to talk to the LMS API directly, then launching a SCO inside
that
frameset - the second SCO can't find the API because it's TWO
levels
higher (SCO 2 > frameset > LMS)
It sounds like you're trying to use that frameset, if I'm
following you,
as a menu system. If you're going to do that, then each
Captivate (or
whatever lesson) needs to track TO the frameset (perhaps
custom
javascript in that frameset that tracks variables) - then
when the
frameset is close, it passes that info to the LMS API.
Or, perhaps easier, is just abandon that middle frameset
entirely and
use the LMS as the menu system (as, technically, it should
be).
Helps?
Erik
Ellen wrote:
> I am trying to create the following - this is a single
sco scorm module:
>
> Picture an HTML frameset, with one frame being a
tracking frame, and the
> other to hold content.
>
> In the content frame would appear in succession a number
of pages, each with
> a link that pops up a captivate window. The interactions
in each captivate
> window should talk to the API. Unfortunately they don't
- and I am having
> trouble figuring out where the breakdown is. When I put
in an alert to see
> if the captivate window detects the API, it definitely
has done so.
>
> It also seems to send an LMSInitialize call, which I
don't want, since the
> containing sco has already done so. But after that, it
sends nothing at all,
> as far as I can tell, using the scorm test-wrapper and
my java console.
>
> I'm not sure whether the issue is the extra
LMSInitialize? Or a path issue?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ellen
>
Erik Lord
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