Access Captivate variable in as3

I used the following code on a frame within an swf that was imported to a CP4 slide. This worked fine in as2. I'm wondering how to write the same code in as3.
_parent._parent._parent.rdcmndNextSlide = 1;
Thanks

Hi,
For one, AS3 uses "parent" and not "_parent". Also, I believe that there are now 4 clips between the slide and your swf. So try with parent.parent.parent.rdcmndNextSlide and if not working try parent.parent.parent.parent.rdcmndNextSlide.
If all fails, let me know and I will give you the exact function to call. It's just that I'm away from Captivate and Flash at the moment.
Whyves
www.flash-factor.com

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Is there any way at all of accessing captivate variables from flash?

Hi,
I would be grateful for any help on this one. I have been working in flash and I wanted to know whether there is any way at all of calling/accessing captivate 4 variables from flash (I'm working in flash Cs4 Actionscript 3.0 and I'm trialling Captivate 4, but I just want to know whether there is any way/method of communicating between a flash file and a captivate 4 file, and if so, can this be done with an embedded captivate 4 file/swf). Surely there must be a way of communicating between the two - they are both Adobe products!
Thanks for any help, pointers, advice, tips in advance.

Hi Louon,
Don't know if this would help you.
http://blogs.adobe.com/captivate/2009/09/captivate_variables_-_how_to_a.html
We have many experts here who could give more precise answers.
Cheers.
Miguel

Accessing Captivate 5.5 variables from embedded SWFs

Hi,
as we all know the interface for accessing Captivate variables from embedded SWFs tends to change between Captivate versions. Shortly after it's release we upgraded to version 5.5, and I'm not succeeding in accessing the Captivate variables in my Flash/AS3 code the same way it was done in version 5.
How should I access the Captivate 5.5 variables (rdinfoCurrentSlide et al) from my SWFs?

Hi,
You can use system variable : cpInfoCurrentSlide to show the slide number.
So you can use text captions to display the value of the variable, the format for displaying the value stored in the variable is $$<system variable>$$. So for slide number use : $$cpInfoCurrentSlide$$, type this in the text caption and then check it in the preview.
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Captivate 5.5 variables in AS3

Hi, i seem to be having a problem accessing the captivate 5.5 variables in AS3.
I saw guides that tells people to do something like
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var mainmov:MovieClip = MovieClip(myRoot.parent.root);
mainmov.rdcmndPause = 1;
but i cant get it to work.

Hello,
What do you mean by 'playback': from the screenshot I deduct it is Previewing. Did you try to view in Web browser of after publishing already?
Could you check the quality of the slides in the Properties, General region?
Lilybiri

Creating variables in AS3 that Captivate can read.

I have a Flash project written in AS3 and I am colaborating with someone that is writing a Captivate training program. The Flash program is a little game and I need to store a couple integers readable by Captivate. I would like to just create the variables in AS3 and have them readable by the Captivate code (that I am not writting).
If that's not possible I suppose I need to actually locate and update the varibles in Captivate (we decided on some variable names).
user_pass (integer, 0 means user is still trying and 1 means user passed)
user_attempts ( I will store how many attempts the user made at the game)
Thanks very much for any help. I think she is pretty strong in her Captivate coding abilities, and I am only moderate in my Flash/AS3 abilities.
Edit: I wanted to mention that the flash game was embedded into a slide in Captivate.

In AS3 you can use the bracket notation...
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Dear Herod,
Thanks for the request, To program a FPGA target you must have the module
Labview FPGA. So you cannot directly access the FPGA with LabWindows/CVI.
But there is a way. Firstly create with Labview a Host VI that communicate with
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See the following link:
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Create User Variable in Captivate via Widget / AS3 ??

Hello all,
I have created a widget which will load many variables into Captive from an XML file. This is great.
Now i don't want to create 100 user variables in the Captivate variables section.
Can you create a user variable within a widget/as3 that will load in Captivate WITHOUT creating the var in Captivate first???
And how might you do this?
Thank you so much!
~ Sean

I've had some time to figure this out... so here's what I've found.
When you place a caption on the Cp canvas, it's base AS3 type is an cpItem. Once you add a Captivate user $$variable$$ from the Variables Panel to that caption, the AS3 type becomes an rdCaptionItem which has an event associated with it... Once the variable value is changed, the caption text is automatically updated. You don't get that with a regular cpItem caption.
What does that mean? It means that the caption type is determined at design time and not runtime. So even though you can create variables at runtime, you can't update any captions because the type is still an cpItem with no events. For example, if I wrote the following AS3 code to create the vTest Cp user variable at runtime in a widget:
cpVariables.setVariableValue("vTest", "Hello World!", true);
cpVariables.SetVariableLength("vTest", 100);
and placed $$vTest$$ in a caption, nothing would get updated during runtime because the vTest variable was not created at design time. The caption is still a cpItem and has no associated event to update the caption text with the newly created variable value.
How can we fix this? You can't... as far as I can tell, you need to define the variable at design time in the Captivate Variables Panel. I thought about updating the caption myself by watching for changes in the variable by tapping into the WidgetEvent.VARIABLE_UPDATED event, but the newly created variable was not in the variableNamesArray for the callback... so there was no way to know if and when it changed.
Long story short, Adobe needs to provide a better way to make this easier for widget developers... and I don't see that happening anytime soon. Right now, the ability to create variables at runtime is somewhat useless. It may be good for inter-widget communication, but there's better ways to do that.
Jim Leichliter

Accessing c4 Variables in Javascript

How do you pass a Captivate 4 variable (User or System) in Javascript when the published .SWF is embedded in another tool like Lectora or Flash?
In Captivate, you can set a value into a Lectora variable (VARmyLectoraVariable.set('myvalue');, but I don't know how to access the Captivate variable.
When run from Captivate, this works:
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But when the published .swf from Captivate is inserted into Lectora and run, I get a JavaScript error ('Captivate' is undefined).
How do you reference the Captivate variable in JavaScript when the .swf is not embedded in the Captivate project html file?
Thank you!

http://pipwerks.com/journal/2009/06/07/introducing-the-captivatecontroller/
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Using Captivate variables

I have just created a course that uses Captivate Variables, after I publish a course and go through the slides for a split second at the start of the slide the captivate variables text changes from the Captivate field name to the actual variable. Is there anyway to stop this happening?

Hi there
Indeed there are a couple of different ways.
The simplest is to ensure that AS3 is your ActionScript setting. Click Edit > Preferences > Project > Publish Settings for that.
More complex is by masking it. Basically you insert something to cover it momentarily. An Image or Highlight Box usually works. Then you adjust the timing and placement accordingly.
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How can I access global variables in a loaded Applescript?

How can I access global variables in a loaded script, in Xcode, ApplescriptObjC? Basically, I have a global variable defined in my parent script using "property", and I need to modify objects connected to those variables inside of a loaded script.
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I think want you are looking to do will need to be done in two steps. Because myTextField needs to be a property for the ObjectiveC part of the code you cannot turn it into a global.
However if you make a temporary variable global assign the string to it in the handler then set myTextField off of it.
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I know you stated you did not want the handler to return a value but I have to ask why? Global's, imo, are not a good idea and really should be used as a last resort.
One other possibility is to pass a reference to the property to the handler. Not sure if that works in AS of if that would satisfy our requirement of not passing the variable through the handler
<edit>
Another though have you tried to define the property outside the script? That is
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Not sure if that will work.
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Why can't I access the variables in my threads?

hello.
another question about threads..
==========================
I have an inner class that implements Runnable (i.e. a thread) and has a variable in it. I want to be able to access that variable from outside the thread class so that I can set or retrieve the variable.
here is the code for the program
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