Exit buttons in Presenter

Question

I created an exit button to close a webpage at the end of an Adobe Presenter course using; javascript:window.close() and pubished it. On inserting the .swf file and publishing the Presenter file the exit button does not work.
Using: Captivate 5, Presenter 7.0.6

Answer 1

There are solutions available.  While not all browsers allow you to close a window without handles; you can close IE (for example) and then attempt to close other browers.  If they don't close within a reasonable period of time (e.g. one or two seconds) you can redirects your users to another page (e.g. either your website; or a simple document with instructions to the learner to close the browser using the X).
I do NOT recommend using Flash files with embedded "window.close()" or the like.  This will only work if the page that is opened is a simple page and not contained within a frameset (where you might need "parent.close()" or "top.close()", etc).  You'd have to edit your Flash file each time to make this work, if it works at all.  I recommend creating a Flash file that contains a reference to an actual function you create, such as "closeBrowser".  Then you create that function in the HTM file that contains the Flash-based files and you can easily modify that.
I discussed this issue and originally developed some certificates or quit buttons for AS2-based Presenter and Captivate files in an article on Connect Users: http://www.connectusers.com/tutorials/2009/02/certificates/. 
I have to update my articles (in my spare time) for AS3-based articles.  However, you could easily create a Flash-based button that calls ExternalInterface.call('closeBrowser'); or something similar.  The code you'd want to include in your HTM file is found here:  http://www.connectusers.com/tutorials/2009/02/certificates/JSCodeForHTMLTemplates.txt
The function to call from Flash is:  closeBrowser
-Andrew