Cant get "rdcmndGotoSlide" to work in CP4 but it works in CP3, why is that?

Question

Hello!
We have this project where we`re doing some tutorial for this CMS with Adobe Captivate. I`m developing a custom videoplayer for controlling Captivate SWFs. I`ve been trying to do these buttons which user can use for jumping forward and backward between slides. All tutorials are done with CP4. I tried to put the rdcmndGotoSlide-code to the buttons but it doenst work. I had some earlier CP3 tutorials and I tried to control them with my player and it worked nicely! The thing is that tutorials are ready but done under CP4 and I cant open the files with CP3 so that I could publish them with it and try if it helps. This is really bugging me cause we have 2 weeks left and after that the project should be finished.

Answer 1

It's very strange that the other commands work but not the GotoSlide one. Are the paths you use the same?
_root.yourmoviecliploaderinstancename_mc.rdcmndGotoSlide = 4;
_root.yourmoviecliploaderinstancename_mc.rdcmndPause = 0;
_root.yourmoviecliploaderinstancename_mc..rdcmndResume = 1;
You could also try to add the instance "movie" to your path. I've seen that a couple of times and also in an answer from Adobe.
_root.yourmoviecliploaderinstancename_mc.movie.rdcmndGotoSlide = 4;
_root.yourmoviecliploaderinstancename_mc.movie.rdcmndPause = 0;
_root.yourmoviecliploaderinstancename_mc.movie.rdcmndResume = 1;
In regards to redoing the project in CP3 you could actually copy/paste the slides from CP4 to CP3. I just had to do that with a big project we created in CP4 but for some weird reason all the embedded animations and sounds played on the first slide of the project when we published it. There was no way we could fix it (we tried all possible solutions) so we had to revert back to CP3. Fortunately it's possible to copy & paste slides directly from CP4 and into CP3. If you have used any CP4 specific solutions they won't work but otherwise you should be fine. The only think we lost in the copy / paste process was the timing of buttons/click boxes so we needed to redo those. Still it was far better than having to create the entire project from scratch in CP3.
/Michael