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<p class="MsoNormal">I haven’t downloaded or used Xerte yet, so please be gentle with me. I am trying to determine if I can even use Xerte in my workflow. I have spent a few hours looking/searching through the wiki and mailing list archives and watching some
training videos, and have not found my question addressed.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I would like to use Xerte to produce elearning interactions in swf format which I can then import into Adobe Presenter. I might need a single .swf file to import into Presenter, though I’m not 100% sure whether it can reference other files.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The interactions I am considering would be fairly simple, with text and images but no sound. They would be a single page so there would be no navigation between pages. For example, something like the tabbed navigator on slide 23 of the
toolkit demo at <a href="http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/toolkits/play_560">http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/toolkits/play_560</a> would be great, or the hotspot image on slide 34.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I noticed (in a training video) that there are .swf files among the multiple files produced in a zipped export. If you tried to open/run just one of those .swf files would you see a single page of your learning objects? Or would it need
some of the other files to even render correctly?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">If it helps, here are some rules about the requirements for embedding .swf objects into Adobe Presenter:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Don’t use _root or absolute movie clip references. Use relative paths in the MovieClip object references, not _root.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• The SWF file you want to embed must not attempt to change anything outside its own file. Therefore, the code cannot refer to the following variables: _level#, _global, or stage<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Actionscipt 3 is supported, but Actionscript 2 does not work.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The bit about relative paths makes me think that it might be possible to import into Presenter a flash file that references other files, as long as the paths are relative, so I might not 100% require that the .swf file be completely stand
alone.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Does the answer to my question change whether I’m using Online Toolkit vs. Developer’s Edition vs. Flex Compiler?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Many thanks!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">--Michele Coleman<o:p></o:p></p>
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