ActionScript on Flash buttons

I am just getting back into using Captivate 2.0 to create
some online training and I need some assistance using
JavaScript/ActionScript in Flash buttons. I created a series of
buttons that are part of a single Flash .swf file. I'm using these
buttons as kind of a "main menu" and I would like each of the
individual buttons in the exported Flash .swf file to perform one
of the following functions:
- Open another Captivate project in the same (parent) browser
window, or...
- Jump to a specific slide in the current project
I layed out all the buttons in a single .swf file so I
wouldn't have to import individual buttons into my Captivate
project. So how do I define the ActionScript for each button in
Flash to achieve these functions?
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Brian

Hey Brian,
You can easily open another .HTM file using Javascript, but
doing so generally won't allow you to do any tracking of results.
Successful results tracking pretty much requires that an LMS is
launching each file. That said, opening a new file requires only
the following line of Javascript, where the path can be either
relative or absolute:
window.location.href = "<path to new file>";
As for jumping to a specific slide in a given file, Adobe
Community Expert Paul Dewhurst contributed to a discussion topic in
these forums that references using an undocumented internal
Captivate array to navigate to a specific slide via Actionscript.
You can check it out here:
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?forumid=67&catid=464&threadid =1149498&highlight_key=y&keyword1=variable

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"Biscuit666" <[email protected]> wrote in
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> Hey,
> This is probably a really dumb question, but I cannot
figure out how to
> link
> my own imported flash button to a page on my site.
>
> If I select a button within DW, and click the edit
option I'm presented
> with
> the option of linking the button. If I use my own
button, clicking edit
> just
> puts me into Flash.
>
> I don't want to use the "getURL" within flash because it
insists on too
> many
> security checks which would really ruin a visitor's
experience to my site.
>
> Even in code view there is no hint as to a link
referenced, so I can't
> even
> fudge around with the code!
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
>
> PS.--Adobe: maybe offer a "suggested username" when
registering for your
> forums - not really my preferred choice of nick, but got
fed up after 20
> attempts to choose one.
>
>

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