Flash and Actionscript stuff for use with Adobe Captivate
Tutorial: Lock the progress bar in the Adobe Captivate playbar
In some courses you don’t want the user to “scrub” back and forth by using…
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Tutorial: Open / close the Adobe Captivate TOC from your own button
The Table of Contents (TOC) in Adoce Captivate is a popular feature, but unfortunately it…
Tutorial: AS3 code for the custom right-click menu
The tutorial om how to create your own custom right-click menu for Adobe Captivate showed…
Quick Tip: _root problems with imported swf’s in Captivate projects
If you import an flash swf into Captivate you sometimes get a warning that “this script contains _root and may not function properly”. In most cases your imported swf will still work like intended, but some swf’s might not.
Until recently the only way to fix it was to change the code in your Flash animation so it avoids using _root. I just stumpled upon an fix from Adobe, which is aimed at imported Raptivity content. However, it can be used for other swf’s that reference _root and doesn’t work in Captivate.
XML driven Page Flip book – US$ 30
This is one of my favourite components at the moment. In a lot of courses you need to have external PDF files with additional information. I was getting bored with the plain old non-interactive boring way of displaying PDF’s and found this component. It’s really a great way to highten the experience for the user. Furthermore this component allows the user to download your PDF file as well, which I haven’t seen before.
Image/Banner Rotator – US$ 10
A quick and easy way to add life to your courses or website. This Image rotator is XML driven so you don’t need working knowledge of Adobe Flash in order to use it.
Opening Curtain – US$ 6
A nice and smooth animation of an opening stage curtain in red. Great for introductions or announcements in your courses.
You will need Adobe Flash in order to edit the text in the file.
XML based Item Slider – US$ 20
Here’s another great and interactive component to display information in courses or on websites.
It’s easy to customize and use in your projects.
It’s XML based so you don’t even need to use Adobe Flash to change it.
XML based Accordion Menu – US$ 10
An excellent component, which can be used as a menu in your courses and at just US$ 10 it’s a steal.
It’s easy to change images and descriptions of this file and require no working knowledge of Adobe Flash. The images are loaded from an external folder and the links/descriptions are read form an external XML file.
Stock Flash Components
Well I thought that I would kickstart the blog by adding some posts about some of the various components I have been using in E-learning courses recently.
Most of my production of E-learning is done in Adobe Captivate 3. It’s a great program and the ability to add Flash content is one I use alot.