Here are my first impressions of Captivate 3’s improvements and new features. This is part one of a multi-part journal entry. Importing PowerPoint presentations Disclaimer: I have never recommended nor will I ever recommend using PowerPoint presentations as online courseware. It’s a bad idea, whether it’s been
I just got Captivate 3, and eagerly installed it to see if any improvements have been made regarding JavaScript and ActionScript handling. Short answer: nope. JavaScript According to Captivate’s ‘Help’: You can add JavaScript to click boxes, text entry boxes, and buttons in Adobe Captivate projects. The JavaScript can
Captivate SWFs can communicate with the host HTML file via JavaScript, but the scripting options suffer from severe limitations imposed by the Captivate authoring environment. For starters, this communication is (generally) a one-way street: the JavaScript goes out of Captivate to the HTML file, but the JavaScript in the HTML
Having just finished my Making Actionscript calls from Adobe Captivate tutorial, I’ve been looking at Captivate 2.0 a lot the last few days. Specifically, I’ve been looking for ways to use JavaScript in Captivate. I’m a bit disappointed to report that JavaScript can only be used
Captivate 2.0 doesn’t include the ability directly manipulate Actionscript. This has been problematic for people like myself who have Flash-based ‘players’ that load and unload both Captivate SWFs and Flash SWFs… we often need the Captivate SWF to perform some kind of action when it reaches its end.