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rnick821
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October 15, 2008
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Flash Drag and Drop Template in Captivate. *HELP*

  • October 15, 2008
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Good morning.

I am attempting to use the drag and drop learning interaction that comes pre-packaged with Flash CS3 and import it into Captivate for use in a Captivate based e-learning exercise.

I create the drag and drop just fine in Flash, and it looks perfect when I publish it in Flash, etc.

When I attempt to use the EXACT same SWF in Captivate, however, it does not work. I can move the drags around the screen, but they will not "drop" where they are supposed to.

Thinking maybe I broke the template, I went ahead and just imported it 100% unchanged from Flash into Captivate (without me messing around with it changing things around) and it does the exact same thing.

I have successfully used my own homemade flash "widgets" in Captivate, to include like click and reveal type interactions...for whatever reason, though, I can't get this one to work, even though I know it works perfectly in Flash.

The .swf file was developed using ActionScript 2.0 in Flash and I tried publishing it with Flash 9 and Flash 8 as the setting, both do the same thing.

Help!!!?

Thanks.

Rob
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    jbradley88
    Participating Frequently
    October 16, 2008
    Borders being on really means that a skin is used, which in turn means the main movie is really being housed inside of another movie (the skin) which contains the playback controls.

    This in turn means that one or more of the code references in the drag-and-drop movie may no longer be correct.

    If you see anything in the code of the drag-drop example with "_parent" in it, you'll need to change it to "_parent._parent" to account for the extra layer the skin introduces when borders are on.
    David Burnham HBA
    David Burnham HBA
    Inspiring
    April 23, 2018

    will this move to the top of the QA its only 10 years old 

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    Newsgroup_User
    Inspiring
    October 15, 2008
    rnick821,

    Admittedly - I haven't tried this, yet (call me lazy). Have you actually
    "published" the file from Captivate and tested by launching the resulting
    SWF (as opposed to testing within the Captivate application)?

    Regards,

    Andrew


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      rnick821Author
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      October 15, 2008
      Yea, I tried that one. Didn't work.

      I don't know enough about Flash, but I also tried moving the layers around, putting a "stop" action on the timeline, etc. Nothing seems to help.

      After I posted, I searched, and this is not the first time this question was asked. It's a definite problem.
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      rnick821Author
      Known Participant
      October 16, 2008
      Well, I'm closer.

      I have found that it DOES work when you click the box taking the playback controls off of the skin.

      I don't know WHY this is the case, but it is.

      I kind of need the playback controls in my movies, however. I don't really feel like using my own limited art skills to create my own playback controls.

      Any other ideas?

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