Embedding captivate projects

Hi,
I am attempting to embed one captivate project within another. The reason that I want to do this is so that I am able to reuse one smaller project in a number of other larger projects. I am using variables and I want all available in all projects. I have attempted to just cut and past the screens from one project to another but this does not cut and paste the variable in the smaller project.
Is there anyway of achieveing this, and what is the most efficient way to do so.
I am using captivate 4
thanks
peter

Hi Peter
You should hop over to CPGuru.com and grab yourself a copy of Michael's loader widget. It will be well worth your time and money.
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Cheers... Rick
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A little additional information:
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difference in figuring out what's going on, but thought I'd add
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fixing that would fix this problem as well ... but no such luck...
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Hello,
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Hi there
I'm hoping one of the Captivate team members picks up on this one and either confirms or denys my findings.
It is my understanding that one cannot control the other. Likely you may want to simply insert a Click Box or Button on the slide with the SWF and allow the user to move on when they are ready after having interacted with the SWF.
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Hi Gaspar,
Are you using a preloader for the project? If so, the default
one in Captivate waits for 60% of the project to load before
playing. Perhaps try to add the preloader if you aren't using one,
or remove it if you are to see if that makes a difference. In
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Embedding Captivate in Flex

So, the list of new features for Captivate 4 had a biggie that caught my attention:
"Take advantage of ActionScript® 3.0 publishing to bring Adobe Flex® content into your Adobe Captivate projects, and to embed Adobe Captivate movies in your Flex content."
As a Flex developer, that sounds great, but I can't find a single piece of documentation about embedding Captivate files into Flex. Embedding the published SWF using a SWFLoader component is easy, but is there an API for actually controlling the progression of the Captivate movie? If not, what's the point?
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I've built a player in Flex that loads in different Captivate 4 quiz files through a SWFLoader component. The student logs in (using an employee number), selects the test to take from a List (wrapped in an Accordian - also includes a Progress list indicating tests already completed). After completing the test, the score variable is passed back and I use a FlexSQL component to pass the captured score, employee number, etc. back to a backend database (currently MS Access) for further processing and loading into our LMS when all of the tests are completed. The student can see which tests have already been completed or if they click on a test in the list that has been completed, an Alert box opens to inform them it has been done. Took me about 2 months to create it because as you say, there really isn't much out there regarding how to get these communicating with each other. Give me a shout by email if need more.
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[email protected]

Captivate project takes long time to load on LMS

So I developed a bunch of Captivate 7 modules for a course I'd been working on for some time. When I finally loaded these up on the LMS, I notice that when the modules are launched, a pop-up window opens with a grey background and just stays like that for up to 3-4 mins. I figured grey, because that's what I had set as the HTML page color in the skin editor. However the actual module contents take really long (3-4 mins) to load up. When I tried running all these modules locally from my computer, the grey screen fades into the splash animation within a second.
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Important to note here, the 3-4 min wait time from when the module is launched, is only for the first launch. If I were to close the browser popup (in which the SCO opened), and click launch again from the LMS, it's loads up almost instantly -- so I'm pretty sure something's happening in my Captivate project's loading settings which I can't put my finger on.
Can anyone help me figure out why this is happening and also what are some possible fixes to this. I can assure you that it's not an internet bandwidth issue because we've tested it on multiple internet connections and on several LMSs (even the client's LMS that this was tested on says that the initial load up takes too long).

All the symptoms you quote sure sounds like a bandwidth issue to me.
Obviously when you load a project directly from your hard drive then there's no issue with bandwidth. But if you're pulling down 10 megs from a web server and it takes a while to start then bandwidth is the obvious issue. I agree that 3-4 minutes sounds excessive for a 10 meg file but that depends entirely on how many users are sharing your bandwidth. Try getting your people in these different locations to visit one of those websites that allows you to test your actual bandwidth. It might not be as much as you think.
On another note...What do you have your preloader set to? The default is 100% but you can usually set it to something like 25% without too much trouble. That should cut the start time down appreciably but nothing is going to eliminate it completely because there'll always be some initial lag the first time your learners view the content.

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Hi everyone,
I am working on a project where my client wants me to create a player skin which is completely different from the default themes that captivate has already. The design which client has shared with me contains in this way:
1. TOC - should be truncated and can be expanded by pressing "+" button against the Navigation Text. Its like opening and closing the menu bar using + and - buttons
2. Playback controls required by him are also not in the default skins.
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Unlikely, I'm afraid.
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This question came up in May 2006 but was never really
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First, a tip for the forums: If you use the URL tags, your
post won't require horizontal scrolling - sorry, but I use Firefox
and entering a long URL totally blows my ability to smoothly read
the post ... you can manually add a text link by using the "L" tag
as shown below (I've put spaces in to avoid this being turned into
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[ L = Your Text]
http://www.yourdomain.com [ /
L ]
Back to your issue, Charinos. I'm glad you did find the URL,
but that thread and your problem are not even in the same world.
That thread deals with fonts in text-entry boxes (boxes for
end-user text-entry), and you are talking about text-captions, an
entirely different object.
In fact, if you make changes and save those changes to a
text-caption, then publish the project, the fonts in your text
captions will remain stable and are not dependent on the fonts
installed on the end-viewer's machine. The reason is that when the
SWF is compiled, the text captions are converted to images and so
long as the file is viewed as intended in the HTML document - at
the proper size - the stretching you describe cannot take place.
I'm not saying you are seeing things, but if my understandings of
the Captivate machine are correct, what you are saying is happening
cannot
be happening. Something else is going on, like a failure to
save changes, use of non-conforming text-caption boxes with a
resultant loss of margins, or something.
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Does anyone have a list of things to check for when reviewing
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Written down? No. But that is an awesome idea. Here's some things I check for:
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Do all the buttons, click boxes work how they are supposed to? (Test everything. Back and forth again and again)
Does each slide just look nice, symmetrical, plenty of white space, not to cluttered?
Does the audio sync up with the captions or graphics being used?
Can you think of any way to spice up the module by adding graphics, animations, or audio, voice or music?
Are the hightlight boxes and other pointers noticeable? (You'd be surprised what the designer sees compared to what the user sees.)
Does it flow? Does it feel like you are just going through it or are there random thoughts or tangents thown in that need deleted or reorganized?
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Hi Robyn,
Welcome to Adobe Forums.
In order to download a file from the Captivate output, you need to attach a file in a Captivate project on any button or click box.
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After publishing the project send the File along with the output or paste the file in the output folder, so that the object (button or click box) would be able to find the file which has been attached to it.
I hope this will help you.
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3) Are you using any LMS to upload the output?
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Hi there
I just uploaded a small video to Jing. See if it helps you resolve the issue.
Click here to view
Cheers... Rick
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What is the largest "manageable" size for a captivate project? (I think I've passed it)

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It used to take perhaps 5 minutes for the Captivate software to open and the project to actually load. Now, Captivate loads (menu screen) but the project does not open - it just sits there. When I close the software it asks if I want to save changes to my project, as if it had opened.
Background:
The captivate project that is roughly 260MB. This is after having copied and pasted all the slides to a new project to reduce the file size (several times) -- because of unexplainable ballooning of the file size. I am using a computer with an Intel Core 2 Duo 2.35 GHZ processor with 4GB or RAM.
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Is there a limit to the number of slides a project can contain (i.e., 200)?
What can I do to get my project to actually open?
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Dan

Hi there
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Cheers... Rick
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Can I place my preferred folders from my machine into Captivate project library?

Hello everyone.
I have created a SWF(it may be of 2.0 or 3.0 versions) file which loads images and audio files dynamically from a source folder using XML and JavaScript.
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Is that possible ?
Or can we place the source folder in captivate project library and interact the SWF file to the source folder ?
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Thank you.

Hi Larry,
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