[Xerte] Incorporating Captivate movies in Xerte 1.7

[Tenney Julian]

Ah, the code swf sounds like the way to go. I'd explore using it to get
a xerte icon to broadcast an event, and then set up a listener in Xerte
for that icon's event.

_level0.engine.rootIcon.broadcast('onCaptivateComplete') //in the code
swf, I think.

And an event response in xerte set to icon: rootIcon, eventName:
onCaptivateComplete.

You don't want to go down the JS route. Everything is in flash, one way
or another,

Thanks,

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


I'm assuming that "myTimeline._currentframe" is intended to reference
the Captivate-generated swf and polling it's _currentframe property? If
so, I do not believe that will work because there is no _currentframe
property exposed by a Captivate-generated swf. With the exception of the
".swf"
extension, Captivate-generated swf's are completely different animals in
terms of the methods and properties available to work with them. In
place of "myTimeline._currentframe" you would need to use:

if (myTimeline.rdinfoCurrentFrame == myTimeline.rdinfoFrameCount) {
      //we reached the end
}

The "rdinfo" term is a holdover from the RoboDemo days - Captivate was
not originally developed by Adobe/Macromedia, so that is why things are
so different with Captivate-generated swf's.

One other option you could try is to put a "code swf" inside the
Captivate that calls the parent swf (ie, Xerte), on the last slide at
the last second of that slide's timeline. The way this works is
basically you create a swf in flash that consists of nothing but
actionscript. Then in Captivate you insert a new 'animation' (aka swf)
at the end of the CP so that it is the last thing that fires. Once
fired, it just executes the actionscript contained in the 'code swf'.

So from there you could call Xerte via actionscript.

There probably is an easier way via javascript, but I have no experience
with that. So I thought I'd throw this option out there.

Hope this helps.

mark



 

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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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