Flash to Captivate 5 communication?

We want to create our own custom sequence style question using Flash and then import that .swf into Captivate and have it communicate to some user defined variables. Is that possible? We would be creating our own scoring variables in Captivate and we need the .swf to pass the correct values over to those variables.
Thanks.

Hi,
I second Lilybiri on that! If you want to have all the support of a question slide inside Captivate and want Captivate to handle the details about scores and LMS, then you need to create a Question Widget. Fortunately, there is an open source library to help develop such widgets. If has been created by Tristan over at InfoSemantics. It is called WidgetFactory. It will definitely ease the burden of creating widgets but you need to be comfortable with coding in external actionscript files.
Whyves
www.flash-factor.com

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Hi lisalis72
You might want to consider also posting this question over in
the
Flash
Forums. There are some here that regularly combine Flash with
Captivate, but most of us are clueless with Flash and only work
with Captivate. So your chances of seeing an answer might be better
over in the Flash forums.
Cheers... Rick

Flash CS3, Captivate 4 Single File SWF output- playback problems

Hello,
I am trying to upload a swf file that I created to a website. I am doing this because that it the only format the site editor will allow me to do.
I tried following the steps in the tutorial on how to embed a swf into a pdf. (http://www.adobe.com/devnet/captivate/articles/movieclip_to_pdf.html)
-The File started as a flv, I opened that it Flash Pro CS3, then exported the file to a SWF (Actionscript3).
                    -I then created a new Captivate project, and inserted a "Animation" to put in the SWF video.
                      (I did this because when I tried inserting the flv it only showed it as 3 seconds, when the video is                                     about 40, and it had no audio)
-I chose the option to not show the borders, but show the player skin (Play,pause, etc.) in Captivate.
-I then exported it to a SWF file (It also created the html, etc.)
There was a standalone SWF file created, that when I played with Flash Player, played not a problem, all of the player controls on the skin worked just fine.
However, when I uploaded the swf to the site, only the player conrols showed, and when I tried clicking on the buttons, nothing happened.   When I clicked on the slider, it just showed where the video was supposed to be "2/1"
Any help would be appreciated a lot, as I am not a flash or captivate expert. (I just started using a couple of days ago)
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Hi there
That's sure a convoluted approach!
chevtony wrote:
Hello,
I am trying to upload a swf file that I created to a website. I am doing this because that it the only format the site editor will allow me to do.
I tried following the steps in the tutorial on how to embed a swf into a pdf. (http://www.adobe.com/devnet/captivate/articles/movieclip_to_pdf.html)
Uhhh, if you want the SWF on the web site, why are you following information for inserting SWF into PDF?
-The File started as a flv, I opened that it Flash Pro CS3, then exported the file to a SWF (Actionscript3).
                    -I then created a new Captivate project, and inserted a "Animation" to put in the SWF video.
                      (I did this because when I tried inserting the flv it only showed it as 3 seconds, when the video is                                     about 40, and it had no audio)
What you don't realize is that if you insert a 40 second video into a 3 second slide, there is no need to adjust the slide play time. There is an option that is automatically set that keeps the slide from moving on until the video completes playing.
-I then exported it to a SWF file (It also created the html, etc.)
That's normal Captivate behavior. You get a few different files. The intent is to upload them all and point the user to the HTML file. It then loads and plays the SWF.
There was a standalone SWF file created, that when I played with Flash Player, played not a problem, all of the player controls on the skin worked just fine.
However, when I uploaded the swf to the site, only the player conrols showed, and when I tried clicking on the buttons, nothing happened.   When I clicked on the slider, it just showed where the video was supposed to be "2/1"
Thank you,
Chev
When you insert FLV you also have to upload the FLV. Captivate plays it by referencing it externally. It is not embedded into the SWF and remains as a separate file to deal with.
Cheers... Rick
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Flash in Captivate

Can I import flash animations, i.e., material (motions, media players, simple animations) I created in flash into Captivate? I want more than flash videos, nothing fancy, but maybe a little more than what Captivate has.
Thanks

Hi there
To a certain extent you can. Actually Captivate ships with 175 different Flash Animations to use with it.
If your animation is a looping animation, you will need to create it as a Movie Clip in Flash and drag it to the main Flash stage. Another issue is something called the _root issue. You can read more about that at the link below.
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Integrating Flash With Captivate 4

I wonder if anyone can help me. I have searched the net and these forums but I can't seem to find any answers to my problems. I am attempting to create a quiz in Flash and put it into Captivate, (using the course builder section, I have the e-learning package). I can do this but the quiz just seems to play through and not stop. Does anyone know how to do this correctly? Is there anything I should add into the scripting? And should this be done in Flash or Captivate? Would greatly appreciate any help.
Also is Flash the best way to try to modify or enhance Captivate? The person I'm creating this for wants something like a Raptivity Quiz in a Captivate program. So far I seem unable to create anything in Flash that will work correctly in Captivate. Again I'd be greatful if anyone could shed any light.

Hi there
Sure, lots of folks here create Flash Widgets and Gizmos and use them with Captivate. So it does actually work. Likely you just need to figure out the relationship. (I'm not a Flash savvy person, so I don't mix the two)
Question here though. Captivate has its own quizzing built into the product. Why Flash? Does it do quizzing better? Or was this just someone's requirement without having any knowledge Captivate does quizzing?
Cheers... Rick
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Is it possible to pass a Show command back to Captivate from Flash? I have tried only to get a syntax error in Flash. What I am trying to do is only allow a Next button to become visible after an activity has been completed in an embedded Flash file. I have passed a variable back to Captivate indicating completion.

Hi there,
I've tried using the revised code with no luck,
If I could briefyl explain what I'm trying to achieve and the porblems that are occuring.
I've been asked to create some Question slides, that have additional buttons. I know this isn't possible in Captivate as Question Sldies are "unique". My first thought was to create an SWF with these buttons, the buttons are to hide/show small animations and pictures relating to the question. However it appears that an animation inserted onto a question slidee will always appear below the Question Objects (question text, answers text, submit buttons, feedback etc)? Is this the case or is there a way round this?
So I decided to create a button in flash that redirectes the user to another screen where they can view the images/animations. The code on the button is as follows
import flash.events.*;
import flash.display.*;
var myRoot:MovieClip=MovieClip(root);
var mainmov:MovieClip=MovieClip(myRoot.parent.root);
ff_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, mouseReleaseSlide1Btn);
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mainmov.rdcmndGotoSlide = 4;
return;
adding the revised line for CP5 as you suggested seems to brig this error in Flash:
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at faultfinding_fla::MainTimeline/frame1()
I'm using CP5 and Flash CS4 any help would be much appreciated!

This is a ditto... but Inserting Camtasia movies (MP4-Flash) into Captivate (a path or JS challenge)

I’m using Captivate v. 6 and Camtasia v. 8
I’ve created Camtasia movies as MP4 – Flash.
My Captivate project is a SCORM housed on an LMS (SyberWorks) for the company’s internal intranet.
In Captivate I’ve inserted/imported movies as Event Videos, Progressive Download with a playbar/skin.
Movies are housed on same directory level as the .html and .swf zipped files.
Path to video files are relative (ie)
Z:\Orgs\ogslp\Courses\2012DfltPrvnt\Test 6 Flash with controller2.mp4
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Note: If your Adobe Captivate project contains FLV/F4V files, ensure that the files contain metadata for the video player to function correctly. FLV/F4V files created with Flash Communication Server 1.5.2, FLV Exporter version 1.2, and Sorenson Squeeze® 4.0 automatically contain metadata. Sorenson Squeeze 4.0 is included with the Flash Video Kit. If you import an FLV file that does not have any metadata, the file will not play correctly in your project.
and am waiting for the IT department to get a copy of Adobe Media Encoder so I can embed javascript into my mp4/Flash Movies.
The movies of course play very well off my hard drive, but not off the LMS, a deja vu from the link below.
So… is my issue a path issue or do I simply need to embed javascript into my video(s), or perhaps both?
These Adobe forum links have been the most helpful
http://forums.adobe.com/message/4529946#4529946
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1090685?tstart=0
And PS, why are no videos showing up in the video manager? I can see them in the author slides, but not in the manager.
Thnx - wjf

This is a reply to my own message. A work around that will allow our team to move forward is to make a screen capture of a screen capture. We have content experts who are equipped with Camtasia. These folks will make their narrated movies. I'll then capture their movies with Captivate's screen capture by following: Insert > Recording Slide. Google Chrome of course has the Flash player installed by default so I open the mp4 (M4V) or FLV movie via Chrome and use Captivate's Recording Slide, choose Video Demo option. This gets me a Camtasia screen capture into Captivate. Import audio on its own and it matches up with my test of a movie 1 minute long (longer videos might slip out of sync - will test this).
However, the movie does not have the convenient playbar attached, so video navigation/control can be gained via a Captivate playbar for the slide itself. This offers a double set of navigation options b/c I also created my own set of navigation controls with Flash, but with a simple set of instructions users will know to use bottom playbar for video control and my flash buttons for slide navigation. Its a bit clunky, but this is what I have for now until the engineers have time to target the following:
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1090685?tstart=0
PS I'm sure a simple javascript code could fix this, but for me javascript isn't so easy;)
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I have developed an e-learning using Captivate 2 for a large
organisation. All works fine when tested, the only problem is if
users don't have Flash player installed and they try to run the
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Good Morning Captivate Users!
I was actually inquiring if there was a way to put in a command where when I press an existing flash project in captivate it will alter to the next slide. I have tried putting in a click button but when I do, it will not allow the flash to move when hovering over the actual item. (Example: the Flash buttons are designed to 'glow' when you over them, but if I put a click vox in front of it, it will not glow, the click box will be dominant over it.) I was wondering if either there is code I could put into the flash project for it to change slides or if there is something in captivate that I am not thinking of, maybe something I can do with the click box to make it work without me inputting all this code.
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