[Xerte] Incorporating Captivate movies in Xerte 1.7

[Tenney Julian]

Try mtasc to create swfs. Try FlashDevelop too, which is an IDE for mtasc, as well as Flex - it's interesting stuff.
 
Otherwise, it's a long way around. Something like your suggestion might work - but how would Xerte know when to call the loadVars? Xerte needs the ability to be called from the browser through javascript.. I'll have a think about that - it might open some other interesting possibilities.
 
What have you gleaned from the forums about how other folk have handled playing a captivate file inside their own swfs? You can't be the first person to struggle with this,

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From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk on behalf of Paul Swanson
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There is no code swf option. Mark's suggestion was to create one in Flash, and insert it as part of the Captivate movie at the point you want the code to execute. But I don't have Flash.
 
Yeah, I tried to make a clip in Xerte with just a script icon, and noticed I just got a .rlo file.
 
I also tried changing the case on fscommand, and the _level0.engine.debug("the movie has ended"); suggestion, but both give me the IE error about not being able to download, and Xerte doesn't see the event.
 
Maybe I can find a FOSS swf creator that I can use to create a swf with just AS code in it. Otherwise I'll need to go the middleware route by using JS to communicate with a PHP script, and use loadVars to get the response into Xerte.
 
Paul


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	Which of these is the code swf option? Open file? 
	 
	Xerte doesn't create swf's. It creates xml, so that's no good.
	 
	 


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		From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Paul Swanson
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		The options are:
		 
		Stop project
		Loop project
		Close project
		Open URL or file
		Execute Javascript
		Open other project
		Send e-mail to
		 
		I don't have Flash, so inserting a code swf isn't something that I can do, unless there is a way to create the code swf in Captivate. Oh hey -- couldn't I create a code swf in Xerte? Just a Learning Object with a script icon ... ?
		 
		- Paul


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				What are the other options? 
				 
				>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.