adobe-captivate

Adobe Captivate 3 Typing Sound viewing a recording

I am using Adobe Captivate 3 and am having trouble disabling the typing noise when using a recording. Sometimes when I have this 'feature' disabled and make a recording, it doesn't make the typing sound, but when I publish the project, the typing sound returns. Also, I have other projects I am working on where the typing sound wasn't i...

Removing Borders on Review Quiz in Captivate 2.

How do you remove the review quiz borders and background color when creating a quiz in Captivate 2. A border shows around the answers as if it is an input field. See: http://preview.promomart.com/prep/asi/cv/example.jpg ...

Passing Captivate Parameters

I want to track when users have viewed a Captivate (Flash 10.0) video tutorial. In order to do this I need to pass two parameters (employee ID and which tutorial) and have the video call a url with the passed values when it's done. I think I can pass the parameters to the turorial when it starts but I'm not sure how to get them back out ...

Question From Answer to - "Passing Captivate Parameters"

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1092908/passing-captivate-parameters/1644011#1644011 Can the score quiz be passed still using this method? How can it be passed with the name and employee number? Thanks for your input. ...

Captivate playback control skin in flash

Hi, How can I create and control Captivate Playback Skin in Flash with my custom layout and script? ...

How to unload cleanly an Adobe Captivate SWF from Flash Player 9 (not 10)

Why doesn't Adobe follow their own advice and have a Captivate swf listen for its own UNLOAD event, and clean up all its timers, event listeners, external references, etc. I'm finding it VERY DIFFICULT to get an Adobe Captivate swf out of the flash player's memory once loaded in with the Loader. Clearly, the unloadAndStop method isn't ...

Loaded SWF inside of other SWF - "Working Directory"

I have an SWF that loads other SWF files within it. For clarity, the parent SWF I will call Parent, and the child SWF I will call Child. (The child SWF is from an Adobe Captivate export) The Parent SWF exists within a directory, /webroot/swf/parent.swf The Child SWF exists within another directory, /webroot/children/child.swf The Child...

Captivate - LMS - SCORM communication problems

I'm developing a SCORM compliant LMS, and having some problems with Captivate generated contents. Basically, the behavior is: If you see a SCO (captivate generated content) with for example 15 slides and 1 question in each slide quickly, my lms is not tracking all the 15 question, only the first 3 or 4. If you wait a long time at the en...

Embed .swf in webpage and make it fullscreen

Is there a way to embed a .swf file in a webpage and provide a way to make it fullscreen? I'm creating these files with Adobe Captivate, which doesn't seem to provide a way to publish in other usable formats (.avi files are too big, and no .flv is available, to which there seem to have some players around that allow fullscreen). If ther...

Captivate - sending completion to LMS after 2 attempts

Hi, I'm using Captivate 4, SouthRock LMS and Scorm1.2. My appsim provides the learner with 2 attempts. I've set it up to score Complete/Incomplete. The issue I have is that when the learner fails on the 2nd attempt an Incomplete is being sent to the LMS. How can I get the simulation to send a Complete on the 2nd attempt if the learner h...

Tips on creating my own Captivate widget from a Flash component?

I'm a reasonably-experienced Flash developer, now needing to use Captivate. In order to emulate some software functionality in an exercise, I need to create a combobox control (what Captivate calls a "widget" and Flash calls a "component"). The combobox that ships with Captivate is very different in appearance from the one I need to im...

Navigate based on combobox widget selection in Captivate 4

In Captivate 4, how can I cause navigation to stop on a slide, then continue based on the user's selection from a combobox widget? That is, if the user selects "A" display an error message, but if he selects "B" advance to the next slide. It should be easy, but in CS4 the variable that the combobox supposedly stores the selection in is...

passing variables from Flash to Captivate

Hi, I've created a Widget that loads info from Mysql into Captivate.(for example: this information includes firstname & lastname). Now, I want to pass this information to variables in Captivate & they can be assigned to Caption or Text Entry. Thanks. ...

Keeping variables from Captivate

Hello. I am using Captivate 5. I have a text field where the user enters their name. Once entered I am able use it throughout the presentation. If the user leaves however, the variable is lost. Is there an easy (or maybe not so easy) way to store it externally so when they return it remembers what that variable was? And perhaps where t...

Extract Captivate 4 text captions using Flex (ActionScript 3)

Hi Folks, I'm developing an application in Flex 3.5 for video tutorials, which uses a lot of Captivate 4 (AS3) videos (>200). In the front end, the user can navigate thorough the videos in a menu structure. In the administration part, the admins can upload more videos and organize them into the menu structure. Since we have more than 20...