First of all, thank you. You were right on. I had forgotten the instance name… I’m very strong in Flash.. so let me explain what I did.. and see if you can understand my next question.

Within Captivate, File->New->Widget in Flash. Choose Widget type -> Static and ActionScript Version-> ActionScript2.0.

In Flash go to Window->Components and from User Interface select-drag a button and drop on the stage. Select the button and then go to Window->Component Inspector->Parameters Tab and then in the “label” field change the label to “TOC”.

I added your code seen above. Published. Within Captivate added the new widget and it works perfectly.

I just watched your video on how to change the up, over, and down images on a widget button… (which I thought would be very easy after your video)

I opened my unpublished file that I just described… and I cannot figure out how to change the Flash button to the different states? (I made custom png images in photoshop that work great in Cap4 as image buttons for other things)

Where did I go wrong?
Steve

So nothing happens when you click the button? Did you set up the proper instance names to your button? You should of course customize the scripts above so they fit with your button instance name. The instance name I used is “but_mc” so if you copied my code then make sure that the button you have on your stage has the same but_mc instance name.

/Michael

I created a image to use as a button… and I imported to flash, and put in the code.

I published and imported to CAP 4 project as an animation. It clearly is hiding the << stuff… but how do I get it to work as a button?

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“_parent._parent._parent”

just insert

“_parent._parent.”

However, if you do make these changes it will only work when used with “Display for rest of project” and not for individual screens.

Tiggaa

I never used the Aggregator myself, but from what I understand the Aggregator is a fixed “TOC” and cannot be used in overlay mode. Therefore this would not work with the Aggregator and I doubt that it could be adapted to work with it since the functions required to use the overlay functionality is not included.

/Michael

That’s strange – it should work just fine with the code and steps explained here.

Could you try and exchange the _parent._parent._parent with _root instead and see if that works for you?

I tried to avoid using _root since you get a warning when importing Flash animations that uses _root into Captivate, but in this case it will not case a problem with Captivate.

/Michael