Closed Caption through Linked Movies

Question

I have broken my training module into 5 files so that it
loads faster for the user from our LMS. However, if the user turns
on the CC in the first file, when the movie passes into file #2,
the CC is turned off. I saw Paul's wonderful widget for turning the
CC on automatically, but I only want the CC on in the second movie
if the user turned it on in the first movie. Is there anyway to
pass that information from movie to movie?
Another way to approach this is - how can I compress my file
size for faster loading so that I can have just one continuous SWF
file? There is a lot of audio involved here. Total file size is
about 20k.
Thanks in advance for any advice!
Kelly

Answer 1

Hi Kelly,
Unfortunately, there is no easy way to pass CC information
from one file to another. It sounds like a nice feature to request
for the next version, so you might want to consider submitting it
to Adobe via the following form:
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform&product=5
In the interim, if you have access to a Flash programming
whiz, they could probably create souped-up versions of Paul
Dewhurst's widgets that could do it. Barring that, you *might* be
able to create something using Paul's existing widgets and some
well-placed Execute Javascript calls, but the limited ability of
Javascript to interact with Captivate files makes it something of a
long shot.
As an aside, I'm guessing that you're not tracking your
users' progress via the LMS? I would expect daisy-chaining movies
to break the tracking and reporting abilities of an LMS...