Maximize browser using button or click box within SWF

Is there a way to maximize the browser the SWF is being shown
in using a button that executes javascript? What javascript can be
used?
Our training links directly to the SWF so that it scales
based on the browser size. I would like to make the browser start
out maximized or give the user a button to click that would
maximize the browser for them.
I've tried adding a button that ran javascript to maximize
the screen, but nothing happened. I don't know if it is bad
javascript, if I need to add more to the javascript, or it simply
doesn't work.
This is exactly what I put in the javascript section of the
button. The button is set to execute javascript on click.
window.moveTo(0,0);
window.resizeTo(screen.width,screen.height);

Hi again
You said:
It just seems like the capability to pause a slide and give the
option to restart via a button/box should be basic for this program
and I must be missing something.
Yes, the capability is there. The Click Box or Button do that
now. Your particular issue is with audio. One thing you can do is
break the audio into chunks. Maybe even assign to objects such as
Captions.
You should also consider submitting a Wish Form alerting the
development team that a new option would be welcome. The option to
pause audio as well if pausing the slide using a Click Box or
Button object.
Click
here to view the WishForm/Bug Reporting Form
Cheers... Rick

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end up at the end of the slide. This is a real pain. I have been
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You said:
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Hi, I'm hoping you guys can point out what I'm doing wrong...
I have an image where the user can click on certain parts of
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on the area of the image more than once if requried. I suppose you
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I thought about copying the contents to another slide and add
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help file or elsewhere in the forum, so if it does exist I would
appreciate someone pointing me in the right direction.
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I started the activity using rollovers, but I wanted the user
to do something more definite than just hovering over each part of
the image. So essentially, I want the rollover functionality but
with the ability to click instead of just hovering the cursor over.
I thought this would be easy!
I've tried using both buttons and click boxes without any
success. I ventured a little into slidelets, but I want the callout
to appear in a very specific place and this did not appear to
satisfy my requirements. The 'click to stick' sounds intriguing so
I'll take a look into this, but I'm not convinced it's what I want.
Any more suggestions are most welcome.
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Click boxes and buttons not working in Captivate 3 published projects

I really, really, hope that someone can help me...
we are migrating from Centra/Saba LMS to Connect Pro LMS and while taking our "old" SCORM projects and posting them to the Connect Pro server we have encountered an issue...and the reason it's very hard to trouble shoot is that it's not all of the projects....??
Once a project is pulished none of the buttons or click boxes are working - for instance we use a play button on the frist slide for students to enter the course - you click it nothing happens (except when you mouse over the button it does change color)...same with the click boxes - I can use the progress bar to move froward but anything I click just doesn't respond...
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Jen

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I have ho browser,no back button or search box; how do I get them; I've downed the program twice.

I had firefox. I added babel and your toggle for pop-ups
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* In Firefox 3.6 versions on Windows and Firefox 4 on Windows and Linux it's possible to hide the "Menu Bar" via "View > Toolbars" or via the right-click context menu of a toolbar.
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This should be easy, but I can't figure it out...
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Text Click box not working when using back button on playbar

I have an interstesting situation.
I have a slide that has 2 text clickboxes (Slide B)
Each text click box has an advanced action associated that controls what is displayed on the next slide (Slide C) . The click boxes and the advanced actions work just fine except for the following situation:
The learner is on Slide C and uses the 'back button' on the playbar to return to the slide where the two text click boxes are (Slide B), then the click boxes don't seem to work.
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