Captivate 5 – using swf files as buttons.

hi there
I am currently using adobe 'captivate 5'
I would really like to include navigational left to right buttons that are animated not static.
I have created animated button (swf files) that I have put into the 1st slide in captivate but there appears to be no way of turning the swf file into a proper button that makes you click from the 1st slide to the 2nd??.
Is there any action script that could solve this problem?
any help would be much appreciated!
thanks
matt

Captivate's default answer to this problem is that you have to add a clickbox over the top of the animation to listen for the click and then go to next slide.
But there is a better way, try out the Button.swf widget that comes with Captivate 5. It's a Static Widget, which means that unlike an Interactive widget you can set its timing to be Rest of Project, meaning that it will appear on each and every slide. You can change the button text inside the widget.
So just by placing this button on your first slide, and then another Back button on the second slide, and setting both to time for Rest of Project you'll have forward and back buttons on all slides that work.
You can use the preset graphics provided with the button, or set it to use your own image by adding the image into the published file and citing its name in the field provided.
All in all this is a very handy little widget.

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