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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Preloaders in Captivate - customized and/or just changing the percentage preloaded
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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 [...]
Communicating with Captivate 3.0 SWF from an Actionscript 3 SWF
Although the title sounds promising, I don’t have time right now to really offer a solution yet. I’m just alerting anyone who hasn’t tried to incorporate Captivate 3.0 swf’s into their Flash/Flex/AS3 projects:
Captivate 3.0, although giving you the capability to publish to Flash Player v9, compiles to ActionScript 2.0 specs. Hence, when the player opens [...]
Reader Contribution: How to Have a “Replay” Screen Appear At End of Captivate Movie
Ever needed to have a “Replay?” or some other dialog box appear when a Captivate movie ends?
A reader of my blog, Sean Bezdicek, emailed me a while back with the following:
Hello Mark
Your blog saved my sanity. A few months back you blogged about inherent variables inside a Captivate .swf.My goal was to have a [...]
Adobe Releases Captivate Full Motion Recording (FMR) Editor
Interesting tool that may save folks some time. I try to avoid capturing full-motion video whenever possible when using Captivate just to avoid the added FMR swf, but this nifty free tool from Adobe would at least allow editing of it.
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/captivate/articles/fmr_editor.html
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Yet Another Note on Controlling Captivate - via the Generated Skin Swf
Just a quick tip as this comes up from time to time via emails to me - How do I control Captivate swf’s that are loaded into the Captivate-generated “skin.swf”?
Adobe has overhauled their documentation for Captivate (I’m guessing with the release of version 3, which was announced today) and in the livedocs for Captivate is [...]
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Controlling Captivate SWFs from Flash…this time using the Loader Component
I’ve had a few folks ask me if it is possible to load Captivate-generated SWFs into a Flash SWF using a loader component.
The answer is yes, and it’s what I typically do.
To take it one step further, you can use all of the Captivate rdcmnd variables referenced in my previous blog entry to control it, [...]
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Free Storyboarding Template
A couple of years ago I developed a storyboard template in Microsoft Word that has since been used by a lot of folks. It has even been used (with my permission) as the starting point for a commercial storyboard product that does XML export and much much much more.
After speaking with a number of folks [...]
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Captivate File Size Tips
Probably the one thing I dislike most about Captivate is the bloat in file size. There have been times when I seriously considered ditching Captivate and developing my own Flash-based capture template in the Flash IDE (presumably with a library containing all of the objects that Captivate has (callouts, hotspots, etc) and using a workflow [...]
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