Comments on: Loading Captivate files into an AS3 Flash SWF

By: philip

philip — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 17:44:55 +0000

@danny localconnection only allows a single connection (using a unique ID), so if your file is trying to create new connection using the same ID, it could fail.

i’ve found localconnection to be somewhat unpredictable because of this restriction, which is why i designed LegacyCaptivateLoader to use ExternalInterface instead.

By: Danny

Danny — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 02:19:32 +0000

I’m wrestling with this issue and happened upon your article (big surprised, I’ve happened upon your blog many times as a resource)…

Anyway, I wrote some AS2 Flash activities that loaded into Captivate 3 projects, with some calls going from the Flash swf to the Cap swf. Now I upgraded to Cap 5 and all the communication between the Flash swfs in AS2 and Cap 5 swfs in AS3 are broken.

I’m hitting a wall where, I can use LocalConnection to essentially put an AS3 wrapper around my AS2 swfs to make the functions up to the Cap swf work. However, that works the first time you’re on the slide, but if you navigate back to that same slide, it doesn’t work. I’m wondering if you need to dump or clear the LocalConnection object each time the user leaves the slide, but can’t figure out how…

Did you run across this?

By: Philip

Philip — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 23:02:17 +0000

@ged
Publishing to Flash Player 9 doesn’t equate to publishing to AS3. Captivate 3′s “Flash Player 9″ output uses AS2.

@elearningdeveloper
Not sure what’s causing your problem… I’d head over to the Adobe Captivate user forum and post your problem there. Also, I know IE7 is notorious for strange caching behavior… maybe you can check into that angle.

By: ged

ged — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 22:54:06 +0000

Are you talking about Captivate 3?
It seems to have a publish to flash player 9 option?

By: elearningdeveloper

elearningdeveloper — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:57:05 +0000

I am working on a project that is not focused on the problem you are working on, however, due to some similarities in nature I thought I would ask if you can help. I am building a custom Flash player of swf and Captivate swf files. The player pre-loads a series of swf files, and begins to play the first one when loaded. The first time the player loads the files (when the browser cache is empty of these files), the Captivate-generated swf files sometimes do not start, or indeed start, but without being visible. Sometimes a custom scrubber works to get them to show, other times, going to the next slide and coming back is the only thing that reveals them.

My preloader calls rdcmndRewindAndStop after loading a swf – without this line, they would start playing.

Once cached, all swf files run fine.

Do you have any idea what might be causing this to happen? Alternatively, if you would like to share any good resources related to complex scripting of captivate swf files, I would appreciate it very much. Thanks.