Closing swfs in captivate movie

I am frantically trying to figure out how not to get a
javascript erro rwhen my animation ends inside my captivate movie.
how to I close the swf adn still elt the user navigate to the next
captivate screen?
Please help!
thanks,
francie

Hi francie
I have no clue as to how what terrence wood is suggesting
will help here. From what I surmise based off what you posted, you
have inserted an animation or possibly even another Captivate movie
on a slide in an existing movie? And somehow you want to know how
to close the .SWF that is sitting on the slide? If I'm correct in
what I understand you are trying to do, my guess is that it isn't
possible. Why? Well, if you were able to close the .SWF on the
slide, you would probably also close the whole movie. My guess is
that this is why you are seeing JavaScript errors.
I'm thinking that you should probably configure the end
option to simply stop. For the movies that are on the slides, that
is. This also assumes you are placing other Captivate movies on the
slides. If you are instead placing other animation, I haven't a
clue what to advise, other than to possibly adjust timing.
Hopefully this helped in some way... Rick

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Step 1: Open a Blank project and click on
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