Can I create a javascript in a captivate advanced action

Hello all:
I am just getting the hang of Advanced Actions and I am having trouble trying to utilize the Javascript Window.
I have three captivate variables v_Var1, v_Var2, and v_Var3.
I am trying to create a JavaScript function in the Javascript window to concantonate these into one variable v_AllResponses.
Is there an example of such a script out there and can you point me to it?
I have looked but so far no luck.

You can define a variable to contain a space and use that in your Advanced Action:
The SPACE variable has a default value of (see screenshot).
That default value is the HTML for a space character.
Not too many people know this, but you can add limited HTML tags to a caption by using Cp variables. Here are the supported tags:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/flash/text/TextField.ht ml#htmlText
This opens up a wide range of possibilities for dynamic text formatting of your variables. For example, using a single text caption, you could change the color of the text to red or green depending on the tags you surround your variable with DURING RUNTIME.
Jim Leichliter

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Thanks so much for the information. I'm on a constant quest to determine where to focus my efforts. Unfortunately, I have so many different irons in the fire it's very difficult to get everything I WANT to get done actually done.
I asked because it's helpful for me to know what folks are looking for.
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First, I want to say thanks for helping.
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I can't create a javascript saveas for radiobox

I started this discussion in acrobat windows forum and I think I should have put it here so I'm reposting it.
First, I want to say thanks for helping.
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var min = today.getUTCMinutes();
if(min<10)min='0'+min;
var sec=today.getUTCSeconds();
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var myFileName = site + "_" + timeStamp + ".pdf";
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myFileName = "/f/file_test/" + myFileName
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I was struggling with the saveas and I don't want to create a new file everytime so I created a hidden textbox that has the file name. I was hoping that I could just read this textbox and saveas using the original filename. (The script above uses time in the filename so that would create a new file name every second) The hidden text box is getting the values correctly and is working fine.
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Thanks

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