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color=#0000ff size=2>Yes, onMovieComplete is being triggered correctly in
1.8. But as you mentioned, the Captivate movie has multiple timelines, and
it seems to be firing the event off when the first timeline completes, which
is at the end of the first frame. So I still have that to work out.
I'm just trying out the various features of Xerte, so this is nothing urgent. We
have been using Authorware for eLearning, and I think Xerte will be the
replacement. We don't have Flash here, but we will be getting Captivate.
I'm using the trial version at the moment.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2>I'm not sure how Captivate calls javascript. The interface
hides all that from you. You just have an option to set what happens at the end
of the movie clip, and one of those is to execute some JS. This opens a window
where you type the JS in. I haven't used this yet, but I think I could use it to
send an HTTP request to communicate with a PHP script. I figured that if I do a
quiz in Captivate, I could use this to store the results in a database, but it
would be nice if Captivate could communicate directly with Xerte. I think it is
a matter of what Captivate allows you to do. If only there was a script icon in
Captivate like there is in Xerte ...</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2>Cheers,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2>Paul</FONT></SPAN></DIV><BR>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Tenney
Julian<BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, October 04, 2007 1:16 AM<BR><B>To:</B> Xerte
discussion list<BR><B>Subject:</B> RE: [Xerte] Incorporating Captivate movies
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color=#0000ff size=2>Funny that should come up this week - I hit the same
problem myself earlier in the week, and fixed it. Can you download the latest
Xerte and try it again? There was a bug that prevented event broadcasters
getting set up if autoPlay was set. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2>There's always a 'it depends' caveat with external swfs, because Xerte
doesn't know which timeline in the swf to listen for completion of. It
could have multiple timelines, and the one you see playing might be nested
several levels in. The top level timeline may have only one
frame.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN class=564020808-04102007><FONT face=Verdana
color=#0000ff size=2> Let me know how you get on.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2>How does Captivate call javascript funtions? If it's fscommand it
should just work. I reckon externalInterface would also work. getURL should
work too. When you think about it, the Xerte engine is a flash movie. It
loads the captivate flash movie into the player, which should then just behave
as usual. Have you tried it? If you want the javascript to return values to
the Xerte piece, that's more troublesome, but if that's something useful, I
can look into it. Right now I don't think there is a way of calling a js
function from Xerte and getting a return value.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=564020808-04102007><FONT face=Verdana color=#0000ff
size=2>cheers,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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