How to publish a single SWF file?

Hello, I need to know how can I publish a single SWF file
(like the EXE option).
I've tryied to publish many times, but the Captivate creates
many SWF files, including the skin.swf file, but this one I know
how to remove.
I'm using Captivate 3.0.
Thank you!

Hi there
Given the date I'm sure it's something that got lost in translation during the forums upgrade.
See if the link below helps.
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http://blogs.adobe.com/captivate

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This may be an obvious one to some of you but I have been
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information on what I am trying to do anywhere...
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oconndav,
> Is what I am trying to do possible inside Flash ? Surely
it is?!
It is. :)
> Can I import a DV video, add a control skin and publish
it all
> as a single SWF ?
You can, but be aware that video -- especially sizable video
-- works
best when the FLV file is situated outside the SWF. I
understand that your
project requirements dictate otherwise, which makes this a
bit of a
challenge, but you can put everything into a single SWF. It
just means
you'll be building your elements by hand and will control the
video as if it
were a movie clip (that is, a MovieClip class instance)
instead of an
FLVPlayback instance or Video instance in conjunction with
NetConnection and
NetStream instances.
> I believe there are shareware third party products that
can do
> this, but I really want to use Flash and I can't
understand why
> it appears to be so difficult. (unless I am missing
something
> obvious...)
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play inside
SWFs. For whatever reasons Macromedia/Adobe chose, video is
ideally
designed to be controlled as an external asset.
In your case, you won't be able to use the FLVPlayback
component. You
won't even be able to use the older Media components or the
component-less
Video object solution. You'll import your video asset to the
Library, place
it inside a movie clip symbol (which will stretch to an
incredible length),
then place your movie clip on the Stage and give it an
instance name. Once
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ActionScript. The
MovieClip class entry of the ActionScript 2.0 Language
Reference (or 3.0, if
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(and can do)
with movie clips.
ActionScript will give you access to the total number of
frames of that
clip, as well as the current frame. You can tell the playhead
to go to any
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many of the
capabilities of the FLVPlayback component -- though with less
precision.
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... by button
symbols for the buttons (or you could use movie clips), as
well as other
graphic elements. It's going to be a totally
built-from-scratch project,
and you'll have to program the buttons yourself. How would
you rate your
comfort level with ActionScript?
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http://tinyurl.com/2k29mj
"Luck is the residue of good design."

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http://www.adobe.com/livedocs/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/flash/media/Sound.html
http://www.adobe.com/livedocs/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/flash/media/SoundChannel.htm l
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Hi,
is there a hint or workaround how to export (save) all frames
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Hi,
that hint does'nt help. The problem is that I want to have
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Kind regards
Peter
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sure if you know
>this and are having problems? there are no work arounds
to this as it is
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>>
>> is there a hint or workaround how to export (save)
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>>
>> Would much appreciate if someone has a hint for me.
>>
>> Thank you in advanve
>>
>> Peter

So Wat to do? Is there any way to get out as a single swf file from captivate.

Dear friends,
I am beginner in Adobe Captivate. We have a E-learning
project. We are using Dockers as our LMS. Previously we were using
Flash for all. Now we are trying Captivate for better and faster
results. I have few swf files and i inserted al files in Captivate
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Erik
loverflash wrote:
> Dear friends,
>
> We are using
> Dockers as our LMS.
> So instead of getting single output, am
> getting all the swfs, skin swf and html file. Html file
is accessing all swfs
> and works. But it is not working in Dockers. Single swf
will only work in
> Dockers.
>
> Thanks
> Flashlover
>
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