Comments on: Tutorial: Open / close the Adobe Captivate TOC from your own button http://www.cpguru.com/2010/01/14/tutorial-open-close-the-adobe-captivate-toc-from-your-own-button/ Widgets, tutorials and more for Adobe Captivate Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:25:06 +0000 hourly 1 By: Peter http://www.cpguru.com/2010/01/14/tutorial-open-close-the-adobe-captivate-toc-from-your-own-button/comment-page-1/#comment-23956 Peter Thu, 21 Apr 2011 21:39:26 +0000 http://www.cpguru.com/?p=1087#comment-23956 Thanks for putting this together. I followed your excellent instructions and was able to put a custom TOC button on my projects. Some of my sticking points that i wanted to share... because I'm not a flash expert: I had to convert my button to a symbol in order to name the instance. Also, I had to apply the Action Script code to the "frame", not the movie clip... I'm not even sure what that means but it made a difference! Finally, I used Tigaa's excellent suggestion, removed a _parent. to apply the button to the entire project. Thanks again! Thanks for putting this together. I followed your excellent instructions and was able to put a custom TOC button on my projects. Some of my sticking points that i wanted to share… because I’m not a flash expert: I had to convert my button to a symbol in order to name the instance. Also, I had to apply the Action Script code to the “frame”, not the movie clip… I’m not even sure what that means but it made a difference! Finally, I used Tigaa’s excellent suggestion, removed a _parent. to apply the button to the entire project.

Thanks again!

]]> By: Kymm http://www.cpguru.com/2010/01/14/tutorial-open-close-the-adobe-captivate-toc-from-your-own-button/comment-page-1/#comment-22866 Kymm Wed, 12 Jan 2011 23:26:27 +0000 http://www.cpguru.com/?p=1087#comment-22866 So for those of us who don't know a lick of Flash programming, is there a widget somewhere that we can assign an image for our TOC and set this up that easy? So for those of us who don’t know a lick of Flash programming, is there a widget somewhere that we can assign an image for our TOC and set this up that easy?

]]> By: Gina http://www.cpguru.com/2010/01/14/tutorial-open-close-the-adobe-captivate-toc-from-your-own-button/comment-page-1/#comment-22764 Gina Fri, 07 Jan 2011 19:26:38 +0000 http://www.cpguru.com/?p=1087#comment-22764 Your tutorial on opening the TOC from a custom button describes exactly what I need to do for my project. However, we are using Captivate 5/ActionScript 3.0. Do you have a tutorial available, or an explanation of the differences in code? Your tutorial on opening the TOC from a custom button describes exactly what I need to do for my project. However, we are using Captivate 5/ActionScript 3.0. Do you have a tutorial available, or an explanation of the differences in code?

]]> By: Zcarr http://www.cpguru.com/2010/01/14/tutorial-open-close-the-adobe-captivate-toc-from-your-own-button/comment-page-1/#comment-19232 Zcarr Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:39:31 +0000 http://www.cpguru.com/?p=1087#comment-19232 After looking into the _parent suggestion that, tigaa gave. I started looking into this a bit more. I have a goal of creating a completely custom nav widget/flash object that I can place in a project and use for all navigation. I have been struggling with the _parent levels. So apparently an animation on a slide that is set to "show for rest of slide" is housed one _parent deeper than an animation that is set to "for rest of project" _parent._parent._parent. is the path from swf on slide to access variable/functions of Captivate _parent._parent. is the path from swf set to display for rest of project to access variable/functions of Captivate After looking into the _parent suggestion that, tigaa gave. I started looking into this a bit more. I have a goal of creating a completely custom nav widget/flash object that I can place in a project and use for all navigation. I have been struggling with the _parent levels.

So apparently an animation on a slide that is set to “show for rest of slide” is housed one _parent deeper than an animation that is set to “for rest of project”

_parent._parent._parent. is the path from swf on slide to access variable/functions of Captivate

_parent._parent. is the path from swf set to display for rest of project to access variable/functions of Captivate

]]> By: Michael http://www.cpguru.com/2010/01/14/tutorial-open-close-the-adobe-captivate-toc-from-your-own-button/comment-page-1/#comment-16756 Michael Sun, 18 Jul 2010 14:40:37 +0000 http://www.cpguru.com/?p=1087#comment-16756 @Steve - have you sorted out your problem yet? @Steve – have you sorted out your problem yet?

]]> By: Steve http://www.cpguru.com/2010/01/14/tutorial-open-close-the-adobe-captivate-toc-from-your-own-button/comment-page-1/#comment-15503 Steve Thu, 17 Jun 2010 21:03:41 +0000 http://www.cpguru.com/?p=1087#comment-15503 Michael, 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 Michael,

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

]]> By: Michael http://www.cpguru.com/2010/01/14/tutorial-open-close-the-adobe-captivate-toc-from-your-own-button/comment-page-1/#comment-14595 Michael Thu, 13 May 2010 16:52:46 +0000 http://www.cpguru.com/?p=1087#comment-14595 @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 @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

]]> By: Steve http://www.cpguru.com/2010/01/14/tutorial-open-close-the-adobe-captivate-toc-from-your-own-button/comment-page-1/#comment-14590 Steve Thu, 13 May 2010 15:30:05 +0000 http://www.cpguru.com/?p=1087#comment-14590 I don't get it... I must be missing something.... I have Flash CS4, and Cap4. 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? I don’t get it… I must be missing something…. I have Flash CS4, and Cap4.

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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]]> By: Steve W. http://www.cpguru.com/2010/01/14/tutorial-open-close-the-adobe-captivate-toc-from-your-own-button/comment-page-1/#comment-11671 Steve W. Fri, 29 Jan 2010 02:17:13 +0000 http://www.cpguru.com/?p=1087#comment-11671 This is awesome, Michael! I've been waiting for someone to figure this out since I started using Cp4. Thanks for sharing! This is awesome, Michael! I’ve been waiting for someone to figure this out since I started using Cp4. Thanks for sharing!

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