Skin interaction with swf file

When you import a swf into captivate from flash, can you have
the navigation buttons in the "skin" interact with the swf file?
For example, say I made a popup in flash; when the user clicks on
the link, the next button disappears - not allowing them to
continue until they finish the actions on the flash page. Can you
do that? Thanks.

I don't think it's a permission problem, but somehow the
Flash Player thinks (I think) the stream is coming from another
domain. With me a error pops up that goes like this:
SecurityError: Error #2148: SWF-Datei
http://www.streamlineprofits.net/movies/Potential.swf
kann nicht auf lokale Ressource C:\Documents and Settings\Acer
Valued Customer\My Documents\web
projects\streamlineprofits.net\movies\Jan09_Open.m4v zugreifen. Nur
SWF-Dateien in der Sandbox 'local-with-filesystem' sowie
vertrauenswürdige lokale Dateien dürfen auf lokale
Ressourcen zugreifen.
at flash.net::NetStream/play()
at fl.video::VideoPlayer/
http://www.adobe.com/2007/flash/flvplayback/internal::_play()
at fl.video::VideoPlayer/
http://www.adobe.com/2007/flash/flvplayback/internal::_setUpStream()
at fl.video::VideoPlayer/
http://www.adobe.com/2007/flash/flvplayback/internal::_load()
at fl.video::VideoPlayer/load()
at fl.video::FLVPlayback/doContentPathConnect()
Have you tried a super-simple <object>-style embed of
your video?
I really do think it's the Adobe-AC-JS-stuff that's messing
things up?
You could instead consider using swfobject
http://code.google.com/p/swfobject
But first I think you should try an <object>-embed to
see if it's the JS or the Flash that's messing things up.

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Hi all,
This may be an obvious one to some of you but I have been
tearing my hair out for several days and cannot find detailed
information on what I am trying to do anywhere...
I have a requirment to convert several short DV video files
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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
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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,
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you rate your
comfort level with ActionScript?
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http://tinyurl.com/2k29mj
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Flash Player thinks (I think) the stream is coming from another
domain. With me a error pops up that goes like this:
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http://www.streamlineprofits.net/movies/Potential.swf
kann nicht auf lokale Ressource C:\Documents and Settings\Acer
Valued Customer\My Documents\web
projects\streamlineprofits.net\movies\Jan09_Open.m4v zugreifen. Nur
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at fl.video::VideoPlayer/
http://www.adobe.com/2007/flash/flvplayback/internal::_play()
at fl.video::VideoPlayer/
http://www.adobe.com/2007/flash/flvplayback/internal::_setUpStream()
at fl.video::VideoPlayer/
http://www.adobe.com/2007/flash/flvplayback/internal::_load()
at fl.video::VideoPlayer/load()
at fl.video::FLVPlayback/doContentPathConnect()
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your video?
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things up?
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http://code.google.com/p/swfobject
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> little bit more thoroughly, however.
>
> I do, in fact have DW 8.0.2. installed.
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Media > Flash), I can see
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> flash icon in my design window and DW shows no browser
errors. Saving and
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intended. But when I
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white box.
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fine, but I cannot
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white box.
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http://www.lemonsfarmequipment.com/new/index.htm
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would happen, and
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