Question: do I get the .fla file when I buy so I can see what I didn’t do right?

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Thanks,
Eric

I have been messing about with the Captivate publish to EXE and the loader widget. I have found no solution to this problem so unfortunately it seems like you will not be able to use the Loader Widget with Captivate projects published as EXE. I tried to publish a project from Flash to exe (Flash Projector file) and have that load an external swf. That worked just fine, so I think that the problem is to be found in the Captivate software itself.

/Michael

Great – happy to hear it worked out for you!

/Michael

Never encountered that problem before. Did you start the widgets at 0.1 seconds on the timeline on slides G & H? The only thing I can think of is that Captivate for some reason mixes up the widgets, but I have never heard or experienced that myself.

Any chance that you can share your CP files with me? If so I would like to take a look at the problem. You can contact me through my sites contact form and then I will reply back to you asap.

/Michael

I installed your widget about an hour ago to hopefully correct a problem with embedded Captivate .swfs freezing when played within a master captivate file. It seems to be working, but plays the wrong animation at the wrong time. For example …

Slide A has a button linking to Slide G. Slide G has the widget to play animation 1. Slide B has a button linking to Slide H which has the widget to play animation 2. But, when I publish and try the master file, the button on Slide A plays animation 2.

I’ve double checked all of my button paths, etc., and can’t seem to find an error. When the .swfs were embedded the correct file played at the correct time, and I’ve not changed any button settings or moved any slides, just replaced the embedded animations with the widget. The file names are distinct enough that there are not errors in the widget settings, either.

I’ve deleted all of the published files, checked everything and re-published with the same problem.

Any suggestions?
Megan

Marie.

No worries at all ;o)

If the people can view the main Captivate file but not the external file then it is not because they don’t have the Flash player installed. If that was the case then they wouldn’t be able to view the main Captivate file either.

I think that the problem could be that the reference to the file location is more complex when published to a CD than when publishing to regular web or intranet.

I’ll take a look at it and see if this can be sorted out and get back to you.

/Michael

Sorry to bother you again but I’ve run into an issue using the loader. Once I have loaded everything in and published the files to an exe to run onto CDs I had to test on other people’s computers. Basically, the .swf files which are external don’t run. Is this because other people don’t have Flash on their computers? Or some other reason?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Ah, what a star you are!! Knew I was just being a bit daft! Thanks for taking the time to answer my question. Keep up the good work

Marie.