Flash Interaction Influencing Score in Captivate

Hi everyone,
I've created a couple of questions in Flash CS5 that I want to use in a Captivate 5 project and have the outcome of the flash interaction influence the score in captivate. I've got the Flash movie incrementing the cpQuizInfoTotalCorrectAnswers (upon success) and cpQuizInfoTotalQuestionsPerProject and that works fine. But, when I get to the scoring page, it's not counting the added flash question even though the variable incrementing works. The flash movie is embedded on a regular slide as I couldn't see how to embed it on a Question slide.
Am I using the wrong variables? How can I get captivate to include the score from the Flash movie? Do I need to score the quiz differently/manually?
Thanks in advance!
-Brian

I would suggest you investigate building your Flash interactions as either interactive widgets or question widgets for Captivate. That way, Captivate will allow you to specify scoring and integrating them into a project will be much easier.
You can learn a lot about building Captivate widgets from the Widget King blog:
http://www.infosemantics.com.au/widgetking/

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"Erik **AdobeCommunityExpert**"
<[email protected]> wrote in
message news:[email protected]...
>I hesitate to post this as it might be a pain, as you
suggest, and others
>may have a better suggestion...
> But I think you'll have to setup a detection of the
keypresses in Flash
> and send those as Events to Authorware. When Authorware
picksup those
> events, have it do a 'press key' for the button to
activate the
> appropriate one (I generally us F1 keys or shift-number
keys !@#$%^).
> Erik
>
> Jensen wrote:
>> Hi all and happy new year!
>>
>> I am using AW7.02, Windows XP, Flash v8 (loaded
using ActiveX).
>>
>> I have the following setup:
>> In a pageturner made in AW I have an interaction
icon placed inside a
>> Framework. On the interaction icon I have several
perpetual buttons, one
>> in particular to flip to the next page (next icon on
framework). This
>> button interaction has RightArrow and PageDown keys
assigned to it. So,
>> while running, if I hit right arrow or page down I
will flip to next
>> page. This works fine.
>> I also load and display Flash on the pages using
ActiveX (Shockwave Flash
>> Object). The Flash are animations, so the user can
click on Flash
>> controllers to play/pause etc.
>>
>> The problem:
>> So, user can flip to next page with keyboard just
fine, as long as the
>> user does not hit anything in the Flash ActiveX
first. So for example, if
>> the user pauses the movie clicking the pause button
in the Flash ActiveX
>> and then hit the right arrow key, then nothing
happens. (I want page to
>> be turned). The user must first hit somewhere
outside the Flash ActiveX
>> in the AW window before the keyboard triggers the
buttons again.
>>
>> Attempts:
>> All my attempts have only been in author mode and
not packaged mode.
>> I've done some attempts sending event from Flash
after button in Flash
>> has been pressed. This is picked up by AW (confirmed
with trace) and then
>> I've tried to:
>> - set focus to interaction icon that holds the
button using
>> SetKeyboardFocus(InteractionIconID). Did not work.
>> - set window focus using
baActivateWindow(baWinHandle) (from Buddy API).
>> Did not work, and as far as I could see the active
window remained the
>> same (= AW window) during Flash interaction, so
probably not so strange
>> it didn't work.
>>
>> So, does anyone have any idea on how I can fix the
focus problem? The
>> only workaround that I am left with right now is to
set up the same
>> keyboard interaction in the Flash as in the AW and
send this info back to
>> AW as events. This is not ideal due to update issues
and unclear
>> codestructure.
>>
>> /Jensen/
>
> --
> Erik Lord
>
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> Adobe Community Expert - Authorware
>
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>
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