Edit Captivate Widget in Flash tutorial

I'm fairly familiar with Captivate, but just getting started with Flash CS4. Does anyone know of any tutorials or simple explanations about how to edit a Captivate 4 widget in Flash CS4? I'd like to start with editing the Certificate widget.

Hi,
You can start be reading this.
Manoj

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Hello, I am very new to Captivate and action-scripting, and I cannot seem to find a tutorial that explains what I feel should be a fairly simple task:
I have customized widgets which usethe import com.adobe.adobe.captivate.widgets.* and import.adobe.captivate.events.* commands. These widgets will not work in Captivate, and will only import as animations.
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I have created a variable in Captivate 5.5 called intProgress which should be a percentage of a student's progress through the course. I set this manually via an Advanced Action upon entering the slide.
I've also created a Progress Bar widget in Flash 5.5. It consists of nothing more than a manual progress bar component in Flash.
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Cool - I've found out how to access my custom variable thanks to your help. Right now, I'm using a simple text field as a debug (instead of the progress bar) just until I get everything sorted out.
In the cpSetValue function of the widget, I tested with the slide name variable you provided first:
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So I have full connection to those, they're reading perfectly. That m_VariableHandle is giving me the connection I need (good to know for the future).
They're just not getting updated. It just keep showing the values for the first slide - for both the SlideLabel and the custom variable. So now my trouble lies not in the reading of the variable, but the updating of it - to get the most current value. That's a step forward though, very happy about that.
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