Captivate 4 and SWF Previews

Hi!
Does anyone know if you are able to preview SWF's in
Captivate 4? We lost that functionality when the latest version of
Flash was introduced and I was wondering if the preview ability had
been restored in Captivate 4.
Thanks!
Gary

> I believe what Gary was asking about was if Captivate 4
does away with the
> preview issue Captivate 3 has when Flash Player 10 has
been installed.
> Folks
> using Captivate 3 lose the ability to preview certain
content within
> Captivate.
I've never experienced that issue, so I'm going to say,
tentatively, yes
...... But don't beat me if I'm wrong :-)
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