This is certainly doable. I’ve done this for projects in the past but it’s been a while. But basically, the steps would be (via actionscript):

1. If current slide is first slide (or alternatively, if !previous slide), load the previous swf (you’ll need to store references to the swf’s, in their order, either in an xml file or just in an array. Then, whenever a new swf is loaded you can just set a variable like, currentMovie with the index to the currently loaded swf.

2. Once the onLoad event is fired and you’re sure the previous swf has loaded, you can then use the captivate variables to jump to the last slide.

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Ergo, clicking back on the first slide in SWF2 would load the last slide of SWF1
Is this something that can be done?

Thanks,
Duke

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Turns out it was easier than I thought. Just created a flash button with actionscript:

on (release) {
_root.rdcmndGotoSlide = _root.rdinfoCurrentSlide;
_root.rdcmndPause = 1;
_root.rdcmndResume = 1;
}

Works like a charm, sweet!

Thanks,
Duke

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Thanks for the pointer, however I am looking for code that would replay the currently viewed slide, not the entire movie. Hence my hacked version of your example. Is this at all possible?

Thanks again.

replay_btn.onRelease = function()
{
myCaptivateMovie.rdcmndGotoSlide = 1;
}

Also – if you need an automatic replay (ie, without a button), do a search of the archives in my blog (just click on the ‘Captivate’ category) – a while back someone sent some code which I posted on how to ‘loop’ a Captivate movie (via actionscript, not the CP publishing GUI).

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I would like to have a ‘replay’ button on my slides. Could you point me in the right direction on how to do this using a flash button and action script?
Something like:
/***********************************************
*Replays current Slide
***********************************************/
three_btn.onRelease = function() {
myLoader_cld.content.rdcmndGotoSlide = rdinfoCurrentSlide;
myLoader_cld.content.rdcmndPause = 1;
myLoader_cld.content.rdcmndResume = 1;
}

Unfortunately I keep saying to myself for a year now that I am going to stop taking on any more ActionScript 2.0 development projects and concentrate solely on AS3 (and mostly Flex, since it is a way more sensible way to develop in for the projects I do, than in the Flash IDE). But, the types of freelance projects I get are all still best served in AS2/Flash Player 8 so I’ve not done much with Flex in a while.

That said…the problem you’re having is that an AVM2 SWF (ie, one written in AS3) can’t communicate directly with an AVM1 SWF (which is all that Captivate 3 can publish to). There are some workarounds. Check out the pipwerks blog – he has some references to it. Also, the “Learning Actionscript 3.0″ book by Rich Shupe has a section that discusses this very problem.

I wrote about this a while back. Do a search of my blog and you’ll find an article that talks about this subject, probably with some direct links to a solution.

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