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jwhollandIII
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January 17, 2007
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Layering issue with Question Slide and animation

  • January 17, 2007
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I have an animation that i would like to use on a question slide, the problem is that I cannot get the animation to appear at a higher level than the question text (it is set on a higher level in the timeline).

The result is that the question text always appears on top of the animation - is there a way to adjust this. The right click menu where i should be able to click "bring to front" for the animation is greyed out.



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    CatBandit
    CatBandit
    Inspiring
    December 17, 2007
    Folks, the Question-slide is a pretty finicky animal - to those who think all objects can be modified in Flash, especially. Mostly, it behaves well if you just want to change fonts or add a background image within the Captivate environment. But you both seem to want to edit is as if it were an object on a FLA stage, and I doubt you are ever going to be happy - at least not with the current or any past versions of Captivate.

    The only advice I can give either of you is to adjust your expectations and/or demands to what Captivate can do, instead of what you think it should do, based on your experience with some other software application.

    That said, maybe some Flash expert will come forward with just what you want, so don't be discouraged by my experiences, as I am hardly a Flash user even at just-past-noob-stage.

    Good luck!
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    C-Risch
    C-Risch
    Participant
    December 17, 2007
    I am in the same situation and would like to know if there is a solution.

    I've attempted using a few variations of ActionScript code in the imported Flash animation using _root.getNextHighestDepth(); to set a variable 'nextDepth' and then using the 'nextDepth' variable in the this.swapDepths(nextDepth) method to move the imported animation one layer above the _root layer (i.e the Captivate SWF, correct?), with no success.

    I've debugged in flash with successful trace checks and I get no errors.

    I am not the best with ActionScript and perhaps my logic is wrong. But any help or direction would be much appreciated.

    Thanks.
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