SCORM API and APIType

Using Andrews Chemey's article on using SCORM and Captivate
I'm working on a javascript SCORM API to integrate Captivate
results into a web application. I made a shell API and used the
sample from the article and it works perfect in FireFox. When I
switched to IE I can see API calls for Initialize, Commit, and
Terminate, but none of the other calls ever make it to my SCORM
API. I was looking at the Simulation.htm in the SCORM 2004 Non-Pif
directory and found that if I foreced g_intAPIType equal to 1
(getURL) it worked fine in IE.
I'm assuming there are reaons that when it detects IE it was
switching to 0 (fscommand). Can anyone shed some light on this? Is
there a setting in Captivate I need to instruct my content
developers to use to force it to always use 1?
Thanks in advance for any help.

NielRevelle,
I'm confused with what you are trying to do...
However - the Captivate tracking mechanism is a two-way
mechanism that needs
to work in as many browsers, Flash Player versions and
Operating Systems as
possible. This "two-way" mechanism takes advantage of
IE/ActiveX and uses
the setVariable method to pass data into Flash. However,
other browsers and
OSs don't support ActiveX so it uses a different mechanism to
send data into
Flash. That's why g_intAPIType is used (if 0 - it uses
setVariable for the
ActiveX control; if it's 1 - it uses a different mechanism
that supports
other OSs and Browsers, but still supports IE).
Finally, I can understand why Initialize (and Commit and
Finish/Terminate)
is supported but nothing else. If a SCORM-compliant LMS is
not available or
the SCORM API can't be found or the LMS can't initialize -
the other SCORM
calls aren't made. Now - you have to determine why you think
the LMS should
have been initialized but wasn't.
Can you provide more information on what you are trying to
do? Does a stock
Captivate file launch/track from your LMS?
Regards,
Andrew

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