Button for background audio toggle? (C6)

Hi everybody,
is it possible to insert a button that toggles ONLY the background audio, which is set for the complete presentation?
If you are listening to a web based presentation the backgorund music might be annoying for some listeners and they just want to hear the speaker's voice. So it would be helpful to switch background audio to off by clicking a button.
How is that possible?
Thanks in advance
martin

To my knowledge this is not possible with default Advanced Actions and Variables in Captivate 6. It would require custom programming in AS3 (and JavaScript if you were intending to output to HTML5).

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Thanks for considering the problem! Unfortunately, as I stated above, the voiceover needs to be a background audio file that plays throughout the project. It's not possible to record audio-per-slide because of the structure of the video - and because I do a lot of editing of the audio files for 8-minute videos.
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Anvinder: We have not tested the workflow of captivate 7 with yosemite so far.
Anvinder: You might find some inconsistencies.
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Anvinder: Amanda, the best practice is to publish the whole project.We are in testing phase for the same. You can download the trial version of captivate 8 and work on it on yosemite.
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**Error** Scene=Scene 1, layer=on, frame=1:Line 3: Mouse
events are permitted only for button instances
on (release) {
**Error** Scene=Scene 1, layer=off, frame=1:Line 2: Mouse
events are permitted only for button instances
on (release) {
Total ActionScript Errors: 2 Reported Errors: 2
**Error** Scene=Scene 1, layer=on, frame=1:Line 3: Mouse
events are permitted only for button instances
on (release) {
**Error** Scene=Scene 1, layer=off, frame=1:Line 2: Mouse
events are permitted only for button instances
on (release) {
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> Step Five:
> Now import your music file into Flash (Go to
FILE>> IMPORT) then go to your
> first frame of the MC and add your sound into it. Under
LOOP NUMBER put a big
> number like 9999 so the music will go on for a long
time.
>
> I made my "button" in photoshop, and import it into
flash, its showing as a
> bitmap (I've tried saving it as a jpg, gif, and png)
when I preview my button
> after importing the music and adding the script to each
layer it plays the
> music, but you cant click on it to turn the music
on/off. I get this Error in
> preview
the button has to be actual flash BUTTON instance not just
button image.
You need to convert each symbol into BUTTON.

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