Customizing Captivate Player with buttons

Hi there,
I've been trying to figure out how to get the captivate
outputs to "stretch" to fill a browser window. After much
investigation and contemplating using Flash instead... I've found
Jesse Warden's Captivate Player, which is excellent! Finally, I can
play my Captivate outputs stretched for different screen
resolutions! yay
But.... the problem I have is that I lose the custom skin I
have created in Captivate when the SWFs created in Captivate open
in Jesse's Captivate Player (v 1.2).
This wouldn't be such a big deal, but I lose the playbar
tools (ie, play / pause / etc).
How can I add buttons like "play", "pause", etc to the
Captivate Player? Or get the skin to come through?
Does anyone have a mod or template that they wouldn't mind
sharing?
Maybe I am missing something?
Your help would be much appreciated.
Kind regards,
Mark Foster

Hi there
Try the link below:
Click here
Cheers... Rick
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quote:
Originally posted by:
Captiv8r
I might suggest you ping Jesse Warden about this, as he is the
person that wrote the Captivate Player.
You may view Jesse's site by
clicking
here
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