Manipulating inserted SWFs

Is there a good way to manipulate inserted SWF animations
(created in Flash) from Captivate? i.e. changing variables, pausing
playback, etc?

Hi RandyHickman and welcome to our community
Unfortunately, there is not. Not simply within Captivate.
It's really just designed to play an inserted .SWF and not interact
with it.
Cheers... Rick

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If I understand correctly, Sonic Kaboom.swf needs to be edited in a separate Flash authoring program and then reinserted into your HTML document.
As Murray said, Flash is dead. Nobody uses it anymore.   We use HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript animations which have universal support from Smartphones, Tablets and other web devices that can't support Flash.   Look at Edge Animate.
HTML animation | Download free Adobe Edge Animate CC trial
Nancy O.

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Inserting swf within a swf

I am creating a Captivate project, basically, as a shell with
5 slides. Within each slide, I would like to insert swfs that I
have previously published. As a result, each of the 5 slides will
play while the embedded/inserted swf plays within. Have you ever
tried to do this? It seems to work only if I don't include a
skin--but I would like to include a skin on each of the swfs that I
have inserted.
Any ideas? Thank you.

quote:
Originally posted by:
jdmosley
How do you revert a project back to Captivate 3 when you hit
a Captivate 4 limitation? Is there a simple way? I made a ton of
changes in Captivate 4 and don't want to have to re-do them with
the previously saved Cap3 version of the project. Thanks!
You could copy/paste the slides from CP4 to CP3 - we just did
that with a project. It doesn't retain all the slides settings (I
think the buttons / goto slide etc) needed to be configured again,
but it still beats having to redo the project from scratch in CP3
;o)
quote:
Originally posted by:
isv2009
Thanks for your reply.
It seems to work whenever the embedded swf does not have a
skin... and not work with a skin on it. Have you tried both cases?
Sorry no I haven't tried this with swf's with skin. I just
saw that your original question actually stated that, but I missed
that part. I would imagine that a skin with a second playbar could
mess things up in Captivate.
If you have Flash skills an idea could be to make a simple
"loader shell" which loads the animation you wish to import. That
way the levels of the two playbars would be seperated even more and
perhaps it would work.
/Michael

Does inserted swf reflect changes when Cap movie is changed?

I have several swfs in my Presenter presentation. If I make changes to the Captivate movies (the source file for the swf), then republish them, will the inserted swf update automatically? If not, can they be updated without having to delete them then insert them again?

Unfortunately Leeann, an updated Captivate file will not automatically replace or update the swf you imported in the PowerPoint environment using the Presenter feature. And simply replacing one swf for another gets pretty dicey with Captivate, especially earlier versions of Captivate because of multiple files that are created as a result of Captivate's publishing process.
However, if you've published your Presenter content locally to your computer, then you might be able to try the following:
Open your project folder where you've published your content to your computer. From there open up the data folder; nested within that should be the resources folder. Once inside the resources folder, you should see all the swfs you imported earlier.
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Of course your individual results may vary, so I'd tread very lightly here...but you can give that a shot and see if it helps any.
Regards,
Rob
www.robrode.com/yabb/

Inserting swfs in ASP include files, CS4?

I'm having a problem inserting SWFs into ASP include files in CS4 and am wondering if there's a solution other than going back to CS3.
I've been adding pages to this site on a daily basis and at some point a few years ago we needed to start using ASP includes. The C-wrapper is in the ASP file and the content is in the included file.
Unfortunately, the way CS4 insists on adding SWFs leads to broken pages. The error in Firefox is:
Active Server Pages error 'ASP 0139'
Nested Object
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It seems to me that hard coding this into the CS4 product makes it kind of inflexible.
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<script type="text/javascript">
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Inserting swf to dreamweaver cs4

Hi,
Hoping someone could clarify for me please!
currently putting together web site for client. The web site has a very simple flash animation in it which the client apparently can't see and gets the prompt to upgrade to flash player v10. (I've tested this on about 4 other computers and different browsers and it looks OK on all these!)
Their IT guy tells me he has installed v10 on their pcs and that my code is wrong because it has: <param name="swfversion" value="6.0.65.0" />" and that it should be version 10.
I've just checked the publish settings in flash and it is set to Flash Player 10 and ActionScript 3.0 so I'm a bit confused as to why my code does indicate it is v6.0.65. I just use the insert swf option in Dreamweaver CS4 and let Dreamweaver write the code.
Can anyone help???? I would really appreciate it!!
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Karen

It is best to let Flash generate an html page when published and copy/paste the code from that file into your html page. I don't know what Dreamweaver does when you rely on it for insertng Flash content, but I don't trust it since it should rightfully do the same thing Flash does (same company--same suite of products), but it doesn't.

How to insert SWF into Presenter.

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I've got a very nasty issue. I created a slideshow in
Captivate and saved it as SWF file.
When I try to import/insert SWF in a presentation (in
Presenter) as "slide animation", I get nothing - the SWF still
isn't imported.
Also, I can do import SWF, when choose the "insert as sidebar
animation" option.
Any ideas how to insert SWF?
I use PowerPoint 2007 and Captivate 3.

Are you facing this problem for this Captivate createdswf or
other swf file as well ? By other swf file i mean created using
Flash Authoring or any other tool.
Also check if swf plays in slideshow of PowerPoint when
inserted using Presenter.

Up a score of one insert swf in captivate

I do not control many variables in captivate and wanted to know how to do the following scenario:
I realize a quiz of 10 questions via captivate I want to know the score at the end.
When the student answers correctly, before moving on to the other question it accesses a swf animation style is a penalty shootout game where he will be able scored 1 point if he succeeded. I will wish that this score is accumulated each time the learner brand appraisse the final result screen on a line other than the result of the quiz. For only the score against questions ascend to lms. What line of code do I insert in my swf file so that captivate retrieves the score via the swf animation?

That means the file path or link to the original file has been broken. Apply the two fixes below in order as needed:
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I have heard that Flash content does not support handicapable design elements that html/css provide for.
You can always have the web page code check for the availability of the Flash Player, and if not found have alternative content presented instead.
An issue with having a full Flash site is that it can be less SEO friendly than going with straight html-based designed, although since the Flash content would still reside in an html page there are some measures that can be taken to support SEO concerns.
For a full Flash site design you would probably not need DW since Flash can generate an html page of its own.
I recommend you post your questions in the Dreamweaver forum as well. The reaction there to using Flash content is likely to be harsh, so don't take it personally, but some helpful information might still be gleamed from trying.

Help with inserting SWF file into .html page

I created a photo gallery in Flash CS5.5, using the advanced photo gallery template. It works fine as a standalone SWF file but it's not displaying properly when I try and insert it into the Gallery page of my website.
The thumbnails are showing as blank white boxes and the main image holder isn't showing at all, though the controls beneath it are showing. The SWF file and all the images are stored in site/images/gallery/ and my Gallery page is in the root. What's going on here? Can anyone help please?
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If you are storing any of your Flash assets in sub-folders and having problems... it's most likely because of pathing problems. For review:
Pathing issues
Almost always when it works on the local machine and not the server, it's a pathing problem.
You can put your Flash related files in whatever folders you want, they do NOT have to be in the root, they do NOT all have to be in the same folder. But if you have a problem and if sticking them all in the root folder works, then you know that the issue was a pathing problem.
Just remember that paths used in the .swf become relative to the Web page on which the .swf is placed, NOT it’s physical location. So for example, if your .swf is in the flash/data folder and you use that .swf on a Web page in the root folder, you are in effect, removing that .swf from flash/data and putting it in root. So if the .swf is loading any related files (xml, images, video, etc), the path used inside the .swf to load the .xml file has to be relative to it's new location in root and then back down into flash/data. This is true even though when testing the .swf by itself, it can be inside flash/data and work just fine, since relative to it's location, the path is just fine, they are in the same folder. But if that same path is used when the .swf is placed on a page two folder levels up, the relative path has changed, the old "same folder" path will not work.
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So just be sure that you use addresses relative to the final Web page locations (not physical file locations) and you can put the Flash related files in what ever folders you want.
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www.cidigitalmedia.com
What it boils down to is that you need to path the Flash assets from the Web page that you place the main .swf on... NOT the physical location of the .swf
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Captivate variable assigned from an inserted .swf?

I have this bit of code in my .swf file (published from Flash 4):
root.rdcmndExit = 1;
When I try to publish the .swf I get this error:
"1119: Access of possibly undefined property rdcmndExit through a reference with static type flash.display:DisplayObject."
I get that error for everyvariable I try to set.
Seems like it should be an easy thing to do, but after two days I still can't figure it out. Any help would be much appreciated.
Here's the complete code of the .swf file: I want to insert in Captivate:
import flash.external.ExternalInterface;
import com.adobe.captivate.widgets.*;
import com.adobe.captivate.events.*;
import flash.display.*;
import flash.events.*;
import flash.net.*
// Create the URLLoader instance to load file
var loader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
// Define the event handlers to listen for success and failure
loader.addEventListener( IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR, handleIOError );
loader.addEventListener( HTTPStatusEvent.HTTP_STATUS, handleHttpStatus );
loader.addEventListener( SecurityErrorEvent.SECURITY_ERROR, handleSecurityError );
loader.addEventListener( Event.COMPLETE, handleComplete );
// Attempt to load the file
loader.load( new URLRequest( "http://www.epic.com/anything.txt" ) );
function handleIOError( event:IOErrorEvent ):void {
trace( "Load failed: IO error: " + event.text );
root.rdcmndExit = 1;
function handleHttpStatus( event:HTTPStatusEvent ):void {
trace( "Load failed: HTTP Status = " + event.status );
root.rdcmndExit = 1;
function handleSecurityError( event:SecurityErrorEvent ):void {
trace( "Load failed: Security Error: " + event.text );
root.rdcmndExit = 1;
function handleComplete( event:Event ):void {
trace( "The data has successfully loaded" );
root.rdcmndResume = 1;

I found the answer here:
http://www.cpguru.com/adobe-captivate-5-system-variables/

Insert swf file CS3

I really don't know why I cannot insert a Flash movie using
Dreamweaver CS3 and have the movie display in all browsers. Why is
the code not correct? I am attaching the code that is inserted by
Dreamweaver.
I also have simple javascript attaching the file:
AC_RunActiveContent.js
I searched for answers in this forum for this and have not
found one that has worked for me.
Can someone help me with this? Am I overlooking something
very basic here? It seems to me this should be just a simple insert
here command to Dreamweaver...
Please, please, please someone answer this question...

Just post a link to the page, please.
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>I really don't know why I cannot insert a Flash movie
using Dreamweaver CS3
>and
> have the movie display in all browsers. Why is the code
not correct? I am
> attaching the code that is inserted by Dreamweaver.
>
> I also have simple javascript attaching the file:
AC_RunActiveContent.js
>
> I searched for answers in this forum for this and have
not found one that
> has
> worked for me.
>
> Can someone help me with this? Am I overlooking
something very basic here?
> It
> seems to me this should be just a simple insert here
command to
> Dreamweaver...
>
> Please, please, please someone answer this question...
>
> <a href="index.html"><img
src="images/graphics/qny-logo1.jpg"
> alt="qny-logo"
> name="newpage1_r1_c1" width="249" height="224"
border="0"
>
onMouseOver="MM_swapImage('newpage1_r1_c1','','images/graphics/qny-logo2.jpg',1)
> " onMouseOut="MM_swapImgRestore()"
/></a></td>
> <td valign="top" ><script
type="text/javascript">
> AC_FL_RunContent(
> 'codebase','
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#
>
version=9,0,28,0','width','720','height','224','title','ADVOCACY','src','fla/adv
> ocacy','quality','high','pluginspage','
http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/d
>
ownload.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash','movie','fla/advocacy'
> //end AC
> code
> </script>
> <noscript>
> <object
classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
> codebase="
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#ve
> rsion=9,0,28,0" width="720" height="224"
title="ADVOCACY">
> <param name="movie" value="fla/advocacy.swf">
> <param name="quality" value="high">
> <embed src="fla/advocacy.swf" quality="high"
> pluginspage="
http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Versio
> n=ShockwaveFlash" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
width="720"
> height="224"></embed>
> </object>
> </noscript>
>

How to insert .swf video into html & mute onclick

I have a .swf file - a 20 sec vid with no player controls, just the video - made by someone else, so this is the only file type I have and can't seem to edit it.
Any way to insert the .swf, and be able to mute the video? It's being used as a banner-type-thing and if people don't want to hear it, they should be able to mute it. I don't need play/pause/stop/etc. - just mute. So however it can be done, either on-click or as a button, would be great...
so confused! this should be easy, no?
thanks
-jonboy

Hi
Unfortunately as you do not have the fla file that was used to create the swf, this cannot be done without turning of the sound on the users computer, which would probably annoy your user.
The only other way is to purchase an swf de-compiler, and then recreate the fla with the mute button, this would naturally require you to use flash pro.
PZ

Insert SWF into new document

I want ot convert a SWF created in Captivate into an avi. It
seems that the simplest way is to import it into a Flash doc and
export as an avi, but I don't know Flash well. I wish I had a day
to get up to speed on it, but for now, quick, easy instructions are
what I need. I don't need any controls. I don't have a skin. It's
essentially an animated card with music that we're sending out to
some of our trainers to thank them for their help.
Thanks for any help!!

Wow, that's some of the more optimistic code I've seen in a while.
A Word document is a binary file, you cannot simply insert text into the middle of a binary file and expect it to work, that's not how they work unfortunately. You might be able to read an RTF file in, but I don't think they support images.
Could you use a plain text file as the source and a PDF as the output? That'd be easy. Or even just use CFDocument to create a PDF with the images, then print that. Does it actually need to be Word?

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