Flash movie interactive

Hello,
I imported a Flash movie (created in 8, saved in 6 to work
with Captivate). It's a graphic of an engine with a list of engine
parts on the left. The student needs to drag the engine part name
to the engine part in the graphic. My question is: Does Captivate
allow for an imported Flash to be interactive?
The inverse of that question would be this question: If I
exported the entire Captivate project to Flash (it's about 5
slides), what is the latest edition of Flash that will work with
Captivate? I tried exporting the project to Flash 8 and got a
warning that the latest Macromedia version that works is 2004, but
I have since upgraded to Macromedia Studio.
I'm just looking for whatever scenario will allow my cool
Flash drag n' drop to be a part of this Captivate-created practice
test.
Thanks!

Hi naimahav
Take a look at the following link and you be the judge as to
whether drag-n-drop can be used in a Captivate movie...
Click here to
see the page
Captivate can be coaxed to work with Flash 8. Take a look at
the link below for details.
Click here to read the
TechNote
Cheers... Rick

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VIEW SITE HERE
problems:
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> 1. The drop down menus from my navigation bar fall
behind the flash
> movie.
> I've tried working with layers, but I can't figure out
how to get the
> flash
> movie to fall behind.
All Active content on a page will always rise to the top, so
to speak,
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is not a good
cross-browser/platform reliable way to solve this issue, but
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confident in your visitors using IE 5+ or NN6+, then you can
use the Flash
wmode parameter (however, Safari does not support this
properly!).
Adobe articles:
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_15523
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_14201
> 2. The flash movie contains interactive content, but you
have to click
> once
> on the movie itself before you can scroll over and see
the interactive
> parts.
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several
years ago to their browser, regarding how Active Content
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If you amend this code by inserting <param name="play"
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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01
Transitional//EN"
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
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http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,29,0"
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http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash" menu="false"></embed>
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Hope this helps... Rick

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