Flash and captivate question

Dear All,
Just a general query (I have tried looking for a solution on the forums to avoid repitition as one user informed me in the past...)
I am using captivate to build an e-learning module for a project and I would like to insert a flash movie on one of the slides in Captivate,
for example slide 3.
Now, I know that this is perfectly possible and normally ther flash swf etc exists a separate entity in the overall captivate movie and
you can set certain parameters within captivate as you are importing it to the required page.
BUT...
Is it in ANY way possible to code the original flash movie so that when it is inserted into the captivate file and the overall project is
published, it interacts with captivate.
If this is confusing, I will give an example.
Let's say this flash movie as stated before is on slide 3 of the captivate file, when the user clicks a button that is contained within the flash
movie 3 times, we go from slide 3 of the captivate file to slide 4?
This would work in a simiar way in flash itself, when I take a movie from out of the library in flash, put it on the timeline in scene 1
and when ity is published a button that it has will enable the user to go from scene 1 to scene 2.
Or, are these 2 applications uncompatible in the aspect that this cannot be done?
Does this make any sense?
I look forward to hearing from you.
Thanks in advance.
Keith

The scenario you describe is one of the reasons why Captivate widgets were introduced with Captivate 4. Many Flash-savvy developers had been adding SWFs to Captivate in previous versions but were finding it difficult to know how to hook into Cp published content at runtime and manipulate what happened.
Widgets were AS2 or AS3 applications (now only AS3 since Cp5) that introduced a whole new world of possibilities.
But to leverage their power you really have to be an AS3 programmer...or know someone who is.
Adobe provided templates to build your own widgets, and there are now at least two other class-based APIs created by widget programmers that can be used to build widgets for Cp4 or Cp5.
Look in the Captivate help files for information about the templates
Look here for information about WidgetFactory API: http://www.infosemantics.com.au/widgetking/
Look here for information about CpGears API: http://blog.flash-factor.com/category/captivate/cpgears/
Is this what you were wanting?

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Two Questions Re: Embedding Flash and Tables Shortcut
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1) I work on a Mac and use Dreamweaver 8. Often I like to
embed
> Flash
> objects into a page and I do this by using Dreamweaver's
INSERT > MEDIA >
> FLASH. However, the SWF file doesn't show up on the
published web page
> and
> I?ve never had this issue using previous versions, so
I?m not sure what to
> do?
> Here's what Dreamweaver generates when I use their
INSERT feature:
>
>
<script type="text/javascript">
> AC_FL_RunContent(
> 'codebase','
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#
>
version=7,0,19,0','width','550','height','180','src','flash/BANNER.HOME','qualit
> y','high','pluginspage','
http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer','movie','f
> lash/BANNER.HOME' ); //end AC code
> </script><noscript><object
> classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
> codebase="
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#ve
> rsion=7,0,19,0" width="550" height="180">
> <param name="movie" value="flash/BANNER.HOME.swf">
> <param name="quality" value="high">
> <embed src="flash/BANNER.HOME.swf" quality="high"
> pluginspage="
http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"
> type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="550"
height="180"></embed>
>
>
> It seems a bit weird that the SWF file is not showing
considering Flash &
> Dreamweaver are the most compatible apps, no? I?m
assuming if
> Dreamweaver is
> generating this code it should work, no?
>
>
>
>
2) I?m getting an error when trying to use the Tables short
cut
> COMMAND+ OPTION+T that reads...
>
>
"While executing objectTag, the following JavaScript error(s)
occurred:
> At line 26 of file ?Macintosh HD:Applications:Macromedia
Dreamweaver 8:
> Configuration:Objects:Common:Table.htm?:
> TypeError: cmdDOM.parentWindo.createTableStr is not a
function"
>
>
> What?s strange is it was working fine last week and for
the life of me I
> don?t
> know what could of happened to make this shortcut get
corrupted?
>
> I?ve reinstalled the app multiple times and still I get
the same error
> :-(
>
>
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated!
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>
> Thanks in advance!
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