I do quite a bit of course development with Flash. Flash 8 has some additional security. By default, it will not let you run content from your local hard drive that communicates between SWFs and JavaScript and between SWFs. This makes it seem like your course is suddenly broken. You can change thes default securlty settings of Flash with the Flash Settings Manager. You enable the communications by adding the folder to the list.
Archive for October, 2006
Flash 8 security settings
Wednesday, October 18th, 2006Active Directory
Monday, October 16th, 2006I have been working with Active Directory today. I am writing some VBScript code that will automatically login a user to our Learning Management System using their Windows login managed by Active Directory. IÂ needed to find all of the groups that a user belongs to. The LMS uses these groups to make course assignments. I found some excellent code examples from Richard Mueller. The samples help you see that ADSI (the library used to access Active Directory and other things) uses two different methods to get the user’s primary group and other groups.
I ran into one problem when getting the list of groups with VBScript. The memberof function usually returns a collection. However, this collection will be empty if ther user does not belong to any groups. In VbScript, you need to use the IsNull() function to see if a collection is empty. All of the ADSI examples that I found on the web used IsEmpty() – a function that will work fine in VB but will not work correctly in VBScript.
Hello world!
Monday, October 16th, 2006I help people create e-learning tools and courses. I often run into technical challenges. This blog describes those challenges and provides the answers I have found. I hope these blog pages save you time in your work.