Captivate Flash and JavaHelp output

According to Adobe, I should be able to view Captivate Flash
files when using the JavaHelp single-source output. However, the
.swf files are still not playing when I generate the JavaHelp
source. I am also getting an I/O Exception error during output
generation. I am using RoboHelp 7 and I have inserted Captivate 3
.swf files.
Does anyone have a suggestion on how to make this work?
Thanks.

I'm sorry that I do not have an answer to your issue, but I
am interested on how you have created the wrapper. I am trying to
figure out how to load my captivate movies onto my SCORM 1.2
compliant LMS and I am a bit stumped. Can you share what you did?
Thanks, Fbudd

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project speed. but when i change it to Event it works fine at the
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Hello,
I'm having a problem with using Adobe Captivate 3 and Adobe Flash CS3 in tandem to get my Captivate project in a file format accepted by online video sharing sites such as YouTube. Since Captivate 3 does not have an option to export to .avi or any other accepted movie file format, I thought that I would export the Captivate project to Flash, and then export it to the avi file format through Flash. However, whenever I select "File>Export>Project To>Flash CS3," I get the following error in Flash:
quote:
The import did not finish because an unknown error occurred
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You said...
quote:
The much bigger obstacle is that when I export a Captivate
project that incorporates full-motion recordings with static slides
displaying a text caption to Flash and then to .mov, I lose the
full-motion recordings: they are replaced with a blank white or
black screen (whatever the background color is set to be). The
audio is gone too. I don't know what is causing this, but I would
really appreciate any help you could lend me concerning this.
I don't have a solution -
maybe someone else here does - but would offer an
observation ...
Keeping in mind that I avoid monkeying with my own Captivate
projects in Flash because of the various inconsistencie, some of
which you have seen ... I am hopeful that the Captivate team does
something to address the handling of full-motion slides. We all
know that they are created as AVI clips which are then converted to
SWF as separate slides, so it seems logical to me that there must
be a way to offer the source, that is, the AVI or a FLA either of
which would then be handled separately inside Flash (for those who
like to do their tinkering in that environment).
In the meantime, you might try to change the timing of the
(errant) full-motion slide a bit. Like, perhaps add or subtract a
tenth of a second to it or otherwise change its properties so that
the import doesn't end up as a blank. Just thinking out loud in
trouble-shooting mode... come to think of it, when the project is
published to SWF/HTM, each full-motion slide is published as a
separate SWF file. Would it be possible to publish the project,
then try to bring that SWF back into Captivate as an animation?
It's late here and I'm getting into fuzzy-thinking time, so if that
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Flash and captivate question

Dear All,
Just a general query (I have tried looking for a solution on the forums to avoid repitition as one user informed me in the past...)
I am using captivate to build an e-learning module for a project and I would like to insert a flash movie on one of the slides in Captivate,
for example slide 3.
Now, I know that this is perfectly possible and normally ther flash swf etc exists a separate entity in the overall captivate movie and
you can set certain parameters within captivate as you are importing it to the required page.
BUT...
Is it in ANY way possible to code the original flash movie so that when it is inserted into the captivate file and the overall project is
published, it interacts with captivate.
If this is confusing, I will give an example.
Let's say this flash movie as stated before is on slide 3 of the captivate file, when the user clicks a button that is contained within the flash
movie 3 times, we go from slide 3 of the captivate file to slide 4?
This would work in a simiar way in flash itself, when I take a movie from out of the library in flash, put it on the timeline in scene 1
and when ity is published a button that it has will enable the user to go from scene 1 to scene 2.
Or, are these 2 applications uncompatible in the aspect that this cannot be done?
Does this make any sense?
I look forward to hearing from you.
Thanks in advance.
Keith

The scenario you describe is one of the reasons why Captivate widgets were introduced with Captivate 4. Many Flash-savvy developers had been adding SWFs to Captivate in previous versions but were finding it difficult to know how to hook into Cp published content at runtime and manipulate what happened.
Widgets were AS2 or AS3 applications (now only AS3 since Cp5) that introduced a whole new world of possibilities.
But to leverage their power you really have to be an AS3 programmer...or know someone who is.
Adobe provided templates to build your own widgets, and there are now at least two other class-based APIs created by widget programmers that can be used to build widgets for Cp4 or Cp5.
Look in the Captivate help files for information about the templates
Look here for information about WidgetFactory API: http://www.infosemantics.com.au/widgetking/
Look here for information about CpGears API: http://blog.flash-factor.com/category/captivate/cpgears/
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Captivate 3 and Flash menu

I have .swf files with closed captioning that are
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not display (the bar displays) when played in the flash menu
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Any ideas/suggestions?

You said...
quote:
The much bigger obstacle is that when I export a Captivate
project that incorporates full-motion recordings with static slides
displaying a text caption to Flash and then to .mov, I lose the
full-motion recordings: they are replaced with a blank white or
black screen (whatever the background color is set to be). The
audio is gone too. I don't know what is causing this, but I would
really appreciate any help you could lend me concerning this.
I don't have a solution -
maybe someone else here does - but would offer an
observation ...
Keeping in mind that I avoid monkeying with my own Captivate
projects in Flash because of the various inconsistencie, some of
which you have seen ... I am hopeful that the Captivate team does
something to address the handling of full-motion slides. We all
know that they are created as AVI clips which are then converted to
SWF as separate slides, so it seems logical to me that there must
be a way to offer the source, that is, the AVI or a FLA either of
which would then be handled separately inside Flash (for those who
like to do their tinkering in that environment).
In the meantime, you might try to change the timing of the
(errant) full-motion slide a bit. Like, perhaps add or subtract a
tenth of a second to it or otherwise change its properties so that
the import doesn't end up as a blank. Just thinking out loud in
trouble-shooting mode... come to think of it, when the project is
published to SWF/HTM, each full-motion slide is published as a
separate SWF file. Would it be possible to publish the project,
then try to bring that SWF back into Captivate as an animation?
It's late here and I'm getting into fuzzy-thinking time, so if that
doesn't make sense, it wouldn't surprise me.

What is the minimum browser requirements for Captivate 5? (Specifically Flash and Java)

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Hi there,
Thanks for reaching Adobe Community. Please accept my apologies for the same.
There is nothing in specific. When you say it takes a long time, do you mean on the LMS or locally as well?
Try updaing the Flash Player.
You can download the Falsh Player Versions from the below link:
http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/downloads.html
Which browser you are using?
Also what objects you have in your project?
Does it have widgets or heavier graphics?
Also are you using any particular preloader? Have you tried using the default.swf preloader?
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Flash and audio and text quality & Documentation/Manuals

Like a donut i posted in the wrong bit so here are the links
to my previous questions rather than duplicating them:
Documentation
/ Manuals
Flash
and audio and text quality
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There is no polite way to say this: You need training to
learn how to use Captivate to create learning objects for a LMS. It
doesn't need to be a "long" training period, but you are trying to
shortcut ALL training and begin at the end. I advise you learn to
use Captivate as a generator of learning objects (LO) for the LMS.
You seem to be thinking you can to use it as a "shell" for your
Flash output and it just isn't a Flash plug-in ... it is a
self-standing and sometimes complicated - but usually easy to learn
- learning tool in its own right (by "easy to learn" I don't mean
overnight, in any case).
Reasons why include the fact that Flash SWFs are vector based
while Captivate uses bitmapped graphics. Audio is handled entirely
differently on the two. Captivate's communication with the LMS is
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michelle.

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I have converted a PDF doc to an SWF file via FlashPaper 2
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resizing. The output looks great, but if I navigate to the next
slide and then navigate back to the animation slide, the animation
is cut in half. I noticed that the animation properties are the
standard ones set in Flash (ca. 550 x 400?), but I need the
document to appear as 590 x 740. Resizing the SWF file in Flash and
then trying to import it into Captivate was a disaster (FlashPaper
buttons all over the place, and no text), and I'm not fluent enough
in how to use ActiveScript to know how to plug in the following
scripting into the movieclip that I could potentially export as an
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Using FlashPaper with Macromedia Flash
You can insert a FlashPaper SWF file into a Flash FLA file.
When you export the FLA file to SWF format, the FlashPaper SWF file
is embedded as part of the exported Flash SWF file.
The following code shows how to load a FlashPaper SWF file in
a regular FLA file using the loadFlashPaper() function:
function loadFlashPaper(
path_s, // path of SWF to load
dest_mc, // MC which we should replace with the SWF
width_i, // new size of the dest MC
height_i, // new size of the dest MC
loaded_o) // optional: object to be notified that loading is
complete
var intervalID = 0;
var loadFunc = function()
dest_mc._visible = false;
var fp = dest_mc.getIFlashPaper();
if (!fp)
return;
if (fp.setSize(width_i, height_i) == false)
return;
dest_mc._visible = true;
clearInterval(intervalID);
loaded_o.onLoaded(fp);
intervalID = setInterval(loadFunc, 100);
dest_mc.loadMovie(path_s);
The following code shows how you can use the loadFlashPaper()
function after you’ve embedded a FlashPaper SWF file:
function onLoaded(fp)
// loading is complete, so we can now adjust the current
page, zoom, etc.
// go to page 50.
fp.setCurrentPage(50);
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fp.setCurrentZoom(33);
loadFlashPaper("FlashPaper.swf", theDocMC, theDocMC._width,
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/Michael
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Need to upgrade to Captivate 4 and need answers before purchase!!

I called Adobe sales, customer service, and tech support and no one seems to have an answer for me and they put me on hold for over 15 mins so I am trying this forum for help. So if any Captivate Gurus out there can answer my questions I would greatly appreciate it.
I currently have Macromedia Captivate 1 Education Version and would like to upgrade to Captivate 4.
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2. I read in Captivate version comparison page that Captivate 4 has the ability to convert your Captivate demo in to PDF with Captivate 4. If so, will the PDF carry the 'demo features' or will it be a standard PDF?
3. I have an Education version for Captivate 1 so is it cheaper to upgrade to Captivate 4 or just purchase Captivate 4 and does Captivate 4 have an education version?
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Hi there
mhbcb wrote:
I called Adobe sales, customer service, and tech support and no one seems to have an answer for me and they put me on hold for over 15 mins so I am trying this forum for help. So if any Captivate Gurus out there can answer my questions I would greatly appreciate it.
I currently have Macromedia Captivate 1 Education Version and would like to upgrade to Captivate 4.
1. In Captivate 1 if you create Flash demos, it creates an HTML file and a SWF file. I heard from someone who has Captivate 3 that it now creates more than 2 files. Is this true for Captivate 4?
We will be happy to try and help. Indeed you may end up with more than two files when you create content from version 4. Is this a problem? If so, why?
mhbcb wrote:
2. I read in Captivate version comparison page that Captivate 4 has the ability to convert your Captivate demo in to PDF with Captivate 4. If so, will the PDF carry the 'demo features' or will it be a standard PDF?
Please restate the question. I'm not sure I understand what you are asking. From what I understand, you end up with a PDF containing your Captivate output.
mhbcb wrote:
3. I have an Education version for Captivate 1 so is it cheaper to upgrade to Captivate 4 or just purchase Captivate 4 and does Captivate 4 have an education version?
Thank you!!
I think Adobe has education versions for most or all of their products. If Captivate 1 has an education version I'd be surprised if 4 didn't. But only Adobe Sales can definitively answer that. Or perhaps another user that purchased (or was denied purchase of) a Captivate 4 education version.
Hopefully this helps... Rick
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when I go to a site like you tube that require a plugin I get the message that Firefox has disabled this feature for security reasons. I then click on the feature update plug ins it take me to the adobe site I down load the latest version of adobe flash only to run into the same problem over again. I've tried updating this feature both manual & auto but with no success.

Hi there
No need to get testy. Lilybiri was being spot on with the comparison.
The only solution for you will be to uninstall the Flash player, then locate an older version of the Flash player and install it on the Windows XP you have. Captivate is now at version 8 and several years have passed since version 1.1. You will likely not make 1.1 work with Windows 7 or Windows 8. In fact, the only way I'm aware to remotely make it work on those operating systems is by first ensuring you have the Professional or Ultimate version, then installing the Windows XP mode Virtual Machine.
Here is a link for uninstalling the Flash Player
And here is a link for the older versions
Sorry, but you are on your own to sort exactly how far back you will need to go to find a version of Flash Player that works with this version of Captivate. And keep in mind, that even though you finally get a Flash Player version that allows it to run, you will only be able to run it on some form of Windows XP. It will not run on Windows 7 or 8 unless you install the VM. And when you do that, you will be stuck inside the VM and will not be able to record anything outside it in the 7 or 8 environment.
Cheers... Rick

How can i Open a Captivate 7 HTML 5 Output in IoS / Android

Greetings,
I have been delivering captivate 7 HTML 5 outputs.... but now when i try to open them in Iphone or Anroid its giving erros.
Iphone: No LRS: DATA Cannot be stored
Anroid: enable Java script in your browser
Can someone guide me (share a step by step doc) on the best way to get this output compatable with IoS/Anroid?
Thank you in advance.
Regards,
Debadrita

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I'm getting this dialog after I have generated the JavaHelp.
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install the latest version of JavaHelp"
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"JHHOME" - "C:\jh1.1.3".
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couple of years ago, I don't know if this was ever resolved.
I have found the following that might help.
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Grainge's site
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here
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See this discussion:
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We are looking for a developer familiar with Captivate, Lectora and SumTotal for a small re-do job. More in the future.

We just lost our favorite technical project manager/developer who took a job somewhere full time. This is a refresh on a course she put together a couple of years ago. It should be a fast simple job as she has outlined the steps but we lack the resources in-house. It will be a chance for us to get to know you. We are in LA but you can be anywhere. Here is what she described as the basic steps - we have the changed content from the client:
1. Update the Captivate file and render as Flash video (.flv). I used Captivate 5.5, but I am guessing your contractor could import the project file into the online version of Captivate.
2. In Lectora, replace the Captivate video. NOTE: Be sure to copy the properties from the existing Captivate video object embedded on the course page, so you can set them for the replacement object.
3. In Lectora, replace the question text. NOTE: Be sure the Feedback text directs them back to the content that relates to the question.
4. Publish the course to HTML and test. Be sure to test the updated activity and quiz. NOTE: While testing, you may need to override the progression logic:
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