E-Learning

Feb102012

animateFrom() – jQuery Plug-In

Posted by Tim Symons | Published: February 10, 2012

I meant to write a post this week on how to use jQuery animations in place of Lectora animations, but work seemed to get in the way. So instead I thought I would share a jQuery plugin that I use for some of the animations.

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Feb32012

iPad Audio Progress Control Bar in Lectora

Posted by Tim Symons | Published: February 3, 2012

In my last post, I showed how we used the SoundManager2 library along with a simple cue point function to get audio synchronization to work from Lectora on iOS devices. As you may be aware, audio synchronization works in Lectora but you lose that ability when you run the content on an iOS device.

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Jan62012

Synchronizing to Audio on iPad in Lectora

Posted by Tim Symons | Published: January 6, 2012
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Recently we encountered a need to use Lectora for iOS development and required the need to synchronize some on screen elements with audio. If you are familiar with Lectora you will know that if you use the built-in audio with cue points, Lectora converts that imported audio to a Flash file which makes it unusable on any iOS device. Our customer needed this feature, so we finally came up with a workable solution using a JavaScript library called SoundManager2. Using this library and a simple cue point JavaScript event function, we were able to build our Lectora course using audio synchronized animations that would work on all browsers and devices including the iPad and iPhone! Here's how we did it.

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