How to modify functionality of skin buttons in Flash

I am using Captivate 4.  I am creating some practice activities that need a Show Hint button and a Do It For Me button. I've modified 2 of the original buttons in the Coolblue skin provided by Captivate 4, and now need to modify their functionality. Here is what my modified skin looks like when I run it in my Captivate project:
The Do it for Me button is just another Next button, so I can handle that using the same code used in the Forward button.  My problem is the Show Hint button, which should show/hide specific hidden Text Captions (that I have placed in the Captivate slides and tagged with variable names) on mouseOver/mouseOut events or onClick.
How can I accomplish this using the button in the skin?.  I am a graphic designer and don't have a lot of programming skills.  Can one of the brilliant Flash/Captivate folks that visit this site point me in the right direction?  Any info/help will be much appreciated.
Thanks!

I've come up with a bit of a crazy solution but believe it will accomplish what you wish and resolve all your problems!
The image you inserted into your first post, the one of the customized playbar you're trying to configure with Flash, create it as a jpg exactly as you wish it to appear.  Insert it at the bottom of every slide in your presentation, add click boxes around the buttons, then configure their properties to accomplish exactly what you wish.  You can even set it all up on the first slide then simply copy and paste the image and all click boxes at once to the remainder of the slides.
For the rewind button set the click box to "go to first slide".  Set play to "continue".  Back and forward set as "jump to previous" and "jump to next" and so on...
Everything you're trying to do is very easy within the Captivate project utilizing click boxes.  By setting it up this way it will appear as though the user is using the Flash playbar and they'll never know the difference.  Once set up, go to the project menu, skin editor, and remove the actual playback controls.
Even your last post, asking about jumping ahead 2 slides instead of one, can easily be accomplished by setting that button/click box to "jump to slide" then entering the correct slide number.
I know this isn't what you've asked for, but sometimes thinking outside the box is the only way to accomplish what we desire as software doesn't always work the way we'd hope!
Hope this helps.
randy

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