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conormc03
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February 12, 2014
Question

publishing captivate games to a weebly website

  • February 12, 2014
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Hi guys,

I want to put a small adobe captivate 6.0 game onto a website but not really sure how. has anyone evr done it before? it is just a simple drag and drop game but am i right in saying i can put this game on the internet and the viewers can play the drag and drop game?

Weebly gives the options to insert the following onto a page, which would best suit a captivate project? sorry for the questions but i am a beginner

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    Tammy_Moore
    Tammy_Moore
    Inspiring
    March 11, 2014

    Oops! Sorry about the poorly formed link. Thanks for catching it, Sreekanth.

    Conormc03, yes, I think sending me your Captivate file would be an excellent way to look for a solution. Here is my e-mail again for convenience - teacher.tammy.moore@gmail.com. 

    Tammy_Moore
    Tammy_Moore
    Inspiring
    March 1, 2014

    conormc03 - I remember what it was like being a newbie. If you want some help getting your Captivate legs under you, feel free to drop in during my open office hours. I will try to give you some help. I run my open office hours in an online classroom so I can app share to show you some tips and how-tos. To come to open office hours, go to my project home page at http://www.virtualhomeschoolgroup.com/. The open office hours and days are listed in the graphic in the left side bar. Just click the graphic to log in. Anyone else that is a newbie is welcome as well. Open office hours runs year-round with 4 two-week vacations: 1st 2-weeks of April, two-weeks near July 4th, 2-weeks at U.S. Thanksgiving, and 2-weeks near Christmas/New Years.

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    emboyle2
    Known Participant
    March 1, 2014

    Are you using a MAC?

    Tammy_Moore
    Tammy_Moore
    Inspiring
    March 1, 2014

    Yes, I use Captivate on a Mac.

    Tammy_Moore
    Tammy_Moore
    Inspiring
    March 1, 2014

    OK, I just tested it in case there was a new bug and I was able to successfully upload a new swf. Give it a try at http://justabitmoore.weebly.com/coordinate-points.html. Setting it in place did help me to recall a few tips. Let the file completely upload and settle in to place before changing any settings in Weebly's swf upload control panel. When you change anything, the page reloads and it interupts the swf upload. Give that a try.

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    conormc03Author
    Known Participant
    March 1, 2014

    Hi Tammy,

    Thanks for reply. Your website looks great. I hope i can publish my swf so. i will try later. mine is a drag and drop game but that shouldnt be any different i hope? did you ever try launch a drag and drop game to weebly?

    Tammy_Moore
    Tammy_Moore
    Inspiring
    March 1, 2014

    Yes, I have several drag and drop activities made in Captivate on the Weebly. When you try yours again, remember to let the file completely upload before you change any of the settings. Even give it a try before you make any adjustments just so you can see if it works. Then you can try to play around with left, center, right justification and the other customizations. If you do things in that order, you will find everything works fine.

    Tammy_Moore
    Tammy_Moore
    Inspiring
    March 1, 2014

    I have many Captivate swfs on my Weebly. I haven't had any problems, but then I haven't uploaded anything to my Weebly for about 6 months as now I am using our school server so I can publish using the HTML5 too. Are you using the Flash tool in Weebly and uploading the file with the extansion swf? I will try adding a swf in a few minutes to my Weebly just in case they may have a new bug preventing swf uploads.

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    emboyle2
    Known Participant
    March 1, 2014
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    emboyle2
    Known Participant
    March 1, 2014

    I'm new to Captivate also, but I can tell you that if you select Flash you can load the published SWF file to Weebly.  Unfortunately, no one using a MAC can access the file.  I just tried publishing to HTML5 and Captivate made so many errors, that I haven't tried the APP Packager.  If anyone knows why somethings will work in the SWF but not in HTML5 published file, I sure would appreciate some help.  I have a Captivate 7 file on my Weebly (SWF) at

    www.trainandwrite.weebly.com.

    Lilybiri
    Lilybiri
    Legend
    February 12, 2014

    I have some small games in blog posts. They are SWF, and this host allows inserting a SWF. But I really think that it would be better to publish with the app packager.

    Lilybiri

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    conormc03Author
    Known Participant
    February 12, 2014

    thanks ill give it a go. Can you explain what you mean by publish with app packager Lilybiri?

    Lilybiri
    Lilybiri
    Legend
    February 12, 2014

    Look if you can find the App packager, I'm not totally sure it is included with the standalone version of CP6. You publish from CP to HTML5, then use the App Packager to create an app. There is somewhere a tutorial on YouTube but I'm in a hurry, have a meeting.

    Lilybiri

    Captiv8r
    Captiv8r
    Legend
    February 12, 2014

    Hard to say for certain. I do see a Flash option which would be helpful. You could try publishing your Captivate as a SWF and see if uploading the simple SWF from Captivate will work.

    Captivate does have other files it produces (or may produce) depending on what you have done with it in creating your output.

    But I'd start by using the Flash option and see how it goes.

    Cheers... Rick

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