Flash display in captivate

Hi again people,
I created a flash file and inserted it in captivate. The
flash files contains 4 movie clips that is hidden (not on stage),
and when I click on a button, the movie clip move from hidden to
stage.
Now, is all good until i insserted it in captivate and
publish it. I can see the flash files plus all the 4 hidden clips.
Can this be fixed?
thanks

Smoke and mirrors
I am assuming a button on your slide that you want to use to
bring the swf into play, but the problem is that the swf is already
displayed before the button is clicked??
I can think of 2 options that might work:
Have your swf appear after the button pause state in the
timelin in Captivate (Animation Properties/Options/Appear After xx)
Use a caption or screen image to "mask" the swf and set it to
disappear 0.1s after the user has clicked the button.
Hope this helps
Andrew

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