Wanted to take a shot at exercising Captivate 4’s new (and very useful) new features: actions and variables.
To try them, I decided to create something useful (for once!) by putting together a sort of ‘user progress’ slide. The premise is that there is one central slide that is a ‘jump-off’ or starting point for users [...]
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Tracking User Progress in Captivate 4 Using Variables and Actions
Capivate 4 Text-to-Speech Feature Review
I’ve been using Captivate 4 extensively for a week now and I think it’s just a completely different product from previous versions. It’s awesome, while previous versions were just marginally useful to me. Heck, this blog gets hundreds of readers per day and you know why? Because of the Captivate posts. But as I’ve told [...]
Don’t use width or height properties of Loader with AVM Captivate SWFs
Found a bug? Or just a limitation? Either way, if you try loading Captivate-generated movies into a Loader instance, like this:
var myLoader:Loader = new Loader();
myLoader.load(new URLRequest(”myCaptivate.swf”);
myLoader.width = 400;
myLoader.height = 300;
addChild(myLoader);
The result will be that the Captivate gets loaded but you won’t see it. You can hear it so long as you have sound in it. [...]
unloadAndStop in Flash Player 10 – Necessary for Captivate and AVM1 Content
I spent a good part of yesterday trying to figure out a solution to this problem:
- I had coded a course ‘gui’ with navigation controls such as previous/next buttons, and a List component for the non-linear navigation.
- The list component is populated via an XML file that contains the path to the individual swf, and [...]
Adobe Releases Captivate 4 and the Elearning Suite
Today, Adobe released Captivate 4 and the ‘Elearning Suite’. As I stated in a previous post, Captivate 4 is a must-have, monster upgrade for any Captivate user. It is the first Captivate release that can reasonably produce a complete elearning content package. Prior versions either forced users to live with the inadequate and ugly ‘menu [...]
Posted in Adobe Connect, Captivate, Elearning General, Flash Tagged Captivate 4, Elearning Suite Leave a comment
Incorrect Time on Caller ID/Log/VM for T-Mobile@Home Service?
Just saw this webpage:
http://www.fixya.com/support/t1043931-vtech_model_tm3111_2_time
…where people are saying that their voicemails are stamped with the incorrect time. Easy enough fix. I never noticed because I might have set the time to EST right when I first checked out the router’s Admin settings.
Router Update Pushed Down from T-Mobile?
I just got a phone call, on 01/07/2009 at 12:32 Eastern time. I pick it up and it’s a recording saying:
“Hello! This is T-Mobile. We have sent an update to your @Home router. Please reset your router in order for the update to take effect.”
I’m paraphrasing, but that was the basic gist. I had no [...]
Posted in Tmobile@Home Tagged linksys w, linksys WRTU54G-TM, router, T-Mobile, t-mobile@home 4 Comments
Adobe Captivate 4 Coming Soon
According to this Adobe employee’s blog, Adobe Captivate 4 is not too far off from being released. How long that is exactly is your guess. In case you haven’t heard (and you probably have, since a handful of fanboys have been spilling the beans prematurely – apparently they have some sort of side-deal going on [...]
How to enable Fullscreen Mode for a SWF and Does ExternalInterface Work In It?
At my day job I’ve been working recently on a project in which I needed to design and code a brand new elearning user interface/content player. It’s turned out great from a design standpoint and now I’m slowly adding features to it as I have time. Today, I got the idea to add a fullscreen [...]
Posted in Elearning General, Flash, JavaScript Tagged elearning, fullscreen flash, fullscreen swf 9 Comments
Elearning Development Video Tutorials Now Available
I’ve been wanting to create some online video tutorials for quite a while now and, finally, I have some spare time to devote to it. I’ve created a new page on my site to list the tutorials along with brief descriptions. You can access them (currently only one, but more to follow asap) here:
http://elearninglive.com/wordpress/tutorials/
Hopefully, they [...]
Posted in Elearning General, Flash Tagged actionscript, e-learning, elearning, elearning developer, Flash, free video tutorials, instructional design, tutorials 2 Comments