Yes, it does work now. As many of you who have read my other posts on the subject of Captivate know, I often use a Flash ‘wrapper’ that contains custom navigation controls for controlling loaded Captivate movies. This was an absolute necessity prior to Captivate 2.0, as the navigation bars in Captivate 1.0 and RoboDemo [...]
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Get the Close or Exit Button to Work in Adobe Captivate
I get this question fairly frequently, so here is a link to an Adobe Technote on the subject.
Also, for further reading (with code sample), consult Andrew Chemey’s article here.
A Solution to the ‘Transparent Captions in Captivate Still Result in Fuzzy Text’ Problem
I was asked this question via email the other day and I just had to shake my head. No, not that someone asked it – I’m just amazed that after 3 releases of Captivate with this same problem, more people aren’t going ballistic over this bug. The problem is in using transparent captions. I hadn’t [...]
Captivate Audio Output Settings – Part Three – Encoding Speed
This is part three of the testing, where I’ll focus on the encoding speed setting and its effect on filesize and audio quality, in reference to voiceover audio.
Published SWF Files
Filesize Comparison
Summary
To [...]
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Captivate Audio Output Settings Comparison – Part Two – Encoding Frequency
This is part two of a series of articles written with the express purpose of finding the best filesize-to-quality ratio for publishing voiceover audio out of Captivate. Part One can be found here. At the end of the series I’ll provide my thoughts/opinions, followed up by a tabular summary of the facts. And, of course, [...]
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Captivate Audio Output Settings Comparison – Part One – Encoding Bitrate
I’ve been wanting to do this for a few years but have never had the time. Goal: determine exactly what the optimal audio output settings in Captivate are for voiceover audio, which is 99% of the audio I use in Captivate (and I could care less if background/intro music is not fm quality!). I’m [...]
Multiple Levels of Feedback in Captivate
I get this question from time to time. Usually people just think it can’t be done, because there isn’t an obvious way to do it via the GUI. Well, in fact it is obvious – but for something like this you expect it to be built into the GUI, something like a ‘Use multiple feedback [...]
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Preloaders in Captivate – customized and/or just changing the percentage preloaded
All of the preloaders that come stock with Captivate 3 have their associated fla and swf files in the following directory by default:
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Captivate 3\Gallery\Preloaders
To create your own preloader, all you’ll need to do is copy one of the existing fla files, modify the graphics or create fresh ones (just make sure to [...]
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A Nice Article/Series on the AVM1/AVM2 Communication Problem
http://www.learningactionscript3.com/2007/12/14/sending-data-from-avm2-to-avm1/#more-29
It will be quite interesting to see how Captivate 4 addresses this issue. I heard from a very reliable source (as reliable as it gets…but that’s all I can say) that Captivate 4 (if that’s what the next version is going to be called) will have the ability to publish swf’s to AVM2/ActionScript 3 format. [...]
Setting the rdcmndGotoFrameAndResume variable on a Captivate SWF
I just completed a project in which a custom flash wrapper was used for navigation, where the captivate swf’s are loaded in dynamically via an xml-based navigation setup and into an empty movieclip.
Because the client needed their navigation menu links to target specific frames in particularly long Captivate swf’s, I had to use the rdcmndGotoFrameAndResume [...]