Playback control actions

Hi there - can anyone help me with the playback control is
captivate.
I have a captivate demo that i am loading into a flash movie,
via an empty movie clip on the flash time line, with a loadMovie
command in flash. What i want to be able to do is to create either
a javascript command, or some kind of action that will , upon
pressing the close button in the captivate move - a) close the
captivate swf, b) send the flash movie to a certain frame in the
timeline, and play.
I have tried importing the captivate demo into Flash 8 - the
results are dissapointing as you lose the caption fades, mouse
movements, and strangely, the alignment of the text in the caption
boxes. I would liek to keep the smoothness of the .swf from
captivate, but also have the movie close upon the user pressing the
close button.
Thanks

I don't know how to solve this, but imagine the issue is
this:
The Lectora controls likely suppose the SWF is one long
timeline.
Captivate SWFs are movie clips in movieclips with all sorts
of layering.
So that's likely why the Lectora controls don't work...on the
other
hand, I've never used Lectora so maybe you can specify the
object
relationship they're trying to control.
The question about the audio is likely related to how an
'event' audio
clip will not stop when the timeline is stopped and will
likely run out
of sync. A 'streamed' audio clip will work as you expect. I
don't know
how CP publishes the audio, but would assume 'stream'.
Best solution, unless Lectora can help, is to NOT use Lectora
controls
on the CP SWF but use the CP controls (skin) that are
published with the
CP SWF by default... ?
Erik
MrsZev wrote:
> I'm trying to publish my Captivate demos (just the swfs)
to Lectora 2007, and
> use Lectora actions to control the playback
(specifically, to stop them when
> the Lectora action is executed).
Erik Lord
http://www.capemedia.net
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