Captivate controlling FLASH time line

Please forgive if this question has been asked before.
Does anyone know if I can put Actionscipt or javascript into
my Captivate project so when my movie ends it controls the timeline
in FLASH? I'm importing my Captivate file into a flash file using
the Loader Component in FLASH.
Thoughts anyone?
Thanks to all who respond!
Chris

HI Chris
As far as I'm aware, Captivate currently does not allow any
form of ActionScript to be added. However, I believe that I have
heard that ActionScript and JavaScript are very similar. So I'm
assuming that if you can use JavaScript to control a Flash
timeline, you can probably make it happen. However, I'm certainly
not the person to tell you anything about how to go about making it
happen. What I currently know about Flash would struggle to fill a
small thimble. (but I'm working on it)
Cheers... Rick

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