[Xerte] Incorporating Captivate movies in Xerte 1.7

[Tenney Julian]

Thanks for posting that. As you say, if you know which timeline you want
to check for completion, you can poll from Xerte to see if it checks.

Set up an interaction, with an event response set to onEnterFrame, icon
to any icon you want to use to poll, that isn't doing anything else. Put
a debug("onEnterframe") in there to check it is polling - you should see
the debug windowfilling with messages.

Then you can use this to check:

if (myTimeline._currentframe == myTimeline._totalframes ){
  //we reached the end
}

It would be much cleaner to try and fire and listen for an event though.
If you know which timeline and the name of the event, and the captivate
file is already loaded, then a native xerte event response might be able
to pick it up. If you try this, make sure the captivate file is loaded
before you try aqnd set up the event response - do it inside an onLoad
event handler for the captivate file,

I don't know much about captivate...

Julian

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Subject: RE: [Xerte] Incorporating Captivate movies in Xerte 1.7


I'm not familiar with Xerte at all as I have yet to start playing around
with it (but plan to in the future, hence why I'm subscribed to this
list).
I am however quite familiar with Captivate and the one thing I wanted
add to this discussion is that the swf file that is generated by
Captivate is a different animal than a Flash-generated swf. I found this
out the hard way a while back when trying to wrap a Flash navigation
system around Captivate-generated swf's to control them. Before
Captivate 2.0 the built-in navigation controls that they provided were
horrific/unprofessional (they were like the 'custom kewl mp3 playa'
skins available at various places online : ). So I decided to create a
Flash container and nav buttons to control the Captivate swf's that way.

I have a blog post that details the different variables/methods that
control Captivate-generated swf's:

http://elearninglive.com/wordpress/?p=5

I'm not sure of any events it might fire. I'm sure you could poll it
though by checking against the rdinfoFrameCount and rdinfoCurrentFrame
variables to see whether the movie is ended or not.

Hope this helps.

mark
www.elearninglive.com



 

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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.

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 ...

Cheers,

Paul




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