Display External Web Page in Captivate Slide?

do you have a similar widget that works with cap 5.5 without me having to try and re-create with javascript & iframe?

Jim,

Thanks so much!  This will come in very handy.

Thanks,

Wain

As far as I know, there is no way to show a web page inside a SWF.

To show a web page, something has to render that web page. The most common approach is to have some sort of browser engine integrated to do that.

For instance, embedding the IE ActiveX control would embed the IE web browser engine and allow a webpage to be rendered. However, SWFs can't load ActiveX controls. However, this is a very common approach for, say, Visual Basic or Authorware-based projects to display HTML pages within the module.

As another example, Dreamweaver CS4 has a 'Live Preview' mode. I believe that's acheived by embedding the WebKit engine.

Now, with tools like Zinc (www.multidmedia.com) you can 'extend' Flash to allow for such ActiveX control embedding, among many other things, so that could be an approach...but you'd definitely need to know Flash programming to use it (to develop a widget, which CP might be able to use).

AIR is supposedly looking at, or can, handle internal webpage rendering last I read up on it.

BUT as it stands now, by itself, there's no way I know of to embed an actual HTML page, much less a live URL, into a standard SWF - including one generated by CP.

Erik