Inserting A SWF into a Captive Project

Hi All,
I'm trying to insert a swf into my captivate project. It goes
onto the slide with no problem but when I preview the project the
swf is not animated. I'm using AS3 to code the animation so there
is only one frame. I set the frame rate in Captivate to match the
frame rate of the swf with no success. Any help is appreciated,
thanks.

Hi there
I suppose that's possible. I'm not a Flash Coder yet but
would imagine the sky is the limit once you get things into Flash,
as at that point it's a Flash project, no? I don't believe an
avenue exists to take a Flash project and pop it into Captivate.
(By that, I mean to export from Flash as a .CP file - I am well
aware that one may create a .SWF from Flash and pop it into
Captivate as an Animation)
Cheers... Rick

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