SWF Playbars

Hi,
I think what they are trying to say is similar to the problem I am having. I have inserted a SWF file by going to insert>animation.. What I am trying to do is have the playbar in the SWF file appear so that there would be a total of two playbars... one with the SWF file animation, and the other that controls the entire captivate file.
Unfortunately Captivate does not give the "FULL SCREEN" option, so ultimately I have created a SWF file that has the FULL SCREEN MODE option. I am trying to get this playbar to appear
Please let me know if anyone has found a solution to this problem or if I need to further elaborate on my issue.
Thanks so much.

Hi Stefan
I'm not sure if you are interested in this, but you might
want to contract with fellow Community Expert Paul Dewhurst to
design you a Flash playback control that does what you want. He's
pretty sharp with that stuff and I'd never hesitate a moment to
recommend him. His web site is
http://www.raisingaimee.co.uk
and I'm pretty sure his contact information can be found there.
Cheers... Rick

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Description:
When using any custom playbar widget in Captivate, the "mute" icon changes erratically on slides regardless of whether or not the sound is muted when moving forward or backwards through the course.
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Workaround:
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We are able to reproduce the aforesaid issue.
We request you to log a bug for the same at https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform&product=5.
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Would it be
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added right here:
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stage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_MOVE, showSkin);
stage.addEventListener(Event.RESIZE, hideSkin);
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vpl.skinBackgroundAlpha = .01;
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I followed the steps described in the "Skins" page of the Captivate 5 help outlined here:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/captivate/cp/using/WSc1b83f70210cd101126156ac11c7f147d6b-8000. html
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It might be possible to do all of this using some fancy JavaScript coding, but you (or someone that owes you a favour) would need decent coding skills to pull it off.
I think it would be great to log an enhancement request with Adobe for a couple of Advanced Actions to be added for this need. Perhaps we could call them Go Back History -1 and Go Forward History +1. These would just reference an internal array somewhere in the bowels of Cp where the History is kept. Then all authors would need to do is choose this as a button action or an action in a conditional advanced action of some kind.

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I am using Adobe Premiere Pro 2 and wanted to know what the
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billcorrigan schrieb:
> Jerich0, I tried this and when I publish it, the swf
opens a connection to the
> server, and starts streaming but nothing happens. Just a
blank movie.
>
> The content is at (FLV):
>
>
http://breeze.extn.washington.edu/p45023528/
>
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>
>
http://breeze.extn.washington.edu/p17629788/
>
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Hi,
Hopefully someone can help me with this...
I would like to embed a swf (call it swf 1) within my captivate 5.5 project (swf 2), but the catch is that swf 1 is interactive. More specifically there are pause points within the course where learners need to play around with roll-overs or other features before clicking a button to resume. There are a number of swfs going into swf 2, but I thought it best to focus on one for now.
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Why does there need to be a button used now when in CP 6 and 6.5 it worked seamlessly? Will this be fixed by Adobe and when?
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Hello,
Welcome to Adobe Forums.
Playbar is a Skin (.swf file), you can choose different Skin (Project -> Skin Editor) but if you want to have bigger control images, then as per my knowledge you need to create your own customized Skin and use in Adobe Captivate 6.
Thanks,
Vikram

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Hi there
I don't get it. Why would you convert from MP3 to SWF? What would you hope to gain? Captivate allows you to use MP3 files directly.
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I have a project where I don’t want the playbar on the first slide where is the title of the course and the Company logo.
I use the Variables feature of Cp to show/hide playbar.
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The same occurs if the output is swf.
I notice that if I click on “rewind”button of the playbar during the project or at the end, the project starts again and the playbar is not visible on the first slide!
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I’ve Elearning suite 6 with Cp 6.0.1.240 – Windows 7 home premium 64 bit
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Elena57

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I don't think that there is any way to avoid this "flash" unfortunately. The first slide must load completely before any events or actions are executed and therefore the playbar will load and display before the command to hide it is executed.
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