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Adobe Captivate: Importing SWFs into Captivate

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    • CommentAuthorphilip
    • CommentTimeAug 25th 2008
     
    E. wrote:

    I need a miracle! I've embedded my Flash SWF file (Flash 8) into one of my Captivate 3 slides. My Flash SWF has about 10 Scenes and several "_root" references. When I test my Captivate tutorial and get to the slide that contains my Flash SWF, the navigation in my Flash SWF does not work at all.

    Any miracle answers would be a blessing as I have to deliver this tonight (25 Aug 2008)


    Sorry E, but from what I've seen, it doesn't really work that way. When a SWF gets imported into a Captivate movie, it gets converted into a MovieClip. All references to _root in your SWF now refer to the root in the Captivate SWF, which will likely break your functionality. Captivate also uses a funky naming convention for its internal movieclips, so once your SWF is imported (converted into a child movieclip), named references often break.

    In general, I believe this is why developers tend to import Captivate SWFs into their Flash movies and not vice-versa.

    Importing SWFs into Captivate works well if you're just importing a simple animation, but if your SWF contains lots of ActionScript (or any Components), all bets are off.

    - philip
    • CommentAuthorpicasso
    • CommentTimeAug 25th 2008
     
    Thanks for the reality answer and suggestion Philip!

    Is there a tutorial to import my Captivate SWF into my Flash Movie? Btw...I'm more concerned with my quiz pool data slides.

    Thanks a bunch and let me know what I can do to return your gracious help!

    cheers!
    • CommentAuthorphilip
    • CommentTimeAug 26th 2008
     
    when i say import captivate SWFs into Flash, i don't mean import the SWF into the Flash authoring tool, but rather import captivate SWFs into another SWF that was created by Flash (the Flash SWF loads the Captivate SWF at runtime as an external movie). this is a very common practice. i have a simple example here

    disclaimer: not having seen your project, i have no idea if it is appropriate for your needs. definitely do some reading before going down that road.

    if you decide to go that route, this article about Captivate-Flash communication might be helpful

    - philip

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