Publishing with AC2 to create 1 flash file

Larry
I am new to this forum and have found helpful information for problems I have had, posted from you and others. Thank you and the others for your volunteer help. Volunteer service is not always rewarded. I do want to say for myself and others, you are appreciated.

Though, I have noticed a trend in several of the threads. Especially when information is provided to new users.

You asked
"What more could I have done to be nice (enough) for your highly cultivated sensibilities?"

You could have simply left out the following in your reply:

"I've been around for years, and am having to "guess" at what your intent is, so you can imagine how many folks might have even less clue than I, and they might also know the answer, if they could understand the question."

I sense a need for you to bring up that you have knowledge of the product and volunteer your help at every turn. Simply providing the answers to the problems will send the same message.

You obviously understood the two acronyms used. andKlinger even spelled out Adobe Captivate 2 in the sentence preceding the one in which he used "AC2." I would think on a forum where CMS, LMS, SCORM, SWF, HTML, JS, and many others are used, we could simply put an assumption statement in the response.

Your choice of paraphrasing one of the most arrogant characters in movies is informative.
"Intelligence trumps muscle, Imagination Trumps Both!"
Arrogance shuts the door to communication.

Let's make new users feel welcome by toning down the commentary and just try to help.

It is ironic that after many of dressing downs you follow it up with "Welcome to the community."

Hi John,

It is the imported swf, if it was published from flash or captivate as flash 8 then you end up with an additional file on export of your captivate movie.
so in order to get a single swf captivate movie any animations that you import must be flash 7 or lower

A quick way to see for yourself is to create a single frame captivate movie and publish it as flash 8 then create another single frame captivate movie and import the first , publish and you will alway get 2 files

If your imported swf's are flash 8 then they will be external to your published captivate movies, if they are flash 7 or lower then they are internal

myckelh, are you saying that in a Captivate movie with an inserted animation with an inserted animation, and Captivate is splitting out the insertion's insertion?

Thanks for better explaining your issue.
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Didn't mean to blow anyone away or cause hard feelings. I was only defending myself from accusations that just weren't true ... and I am sorry that I felt I had to do that. I am quite sure that "Thorndon" is a nice guy (or gal) who just read too much into my earlier post - or maybe was aware that I can be "testy" from time to time and thought that was the case here (wasn't).

Anyway, have a good weekend, "Boom"!
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Thorndon, I wasn't going to reply to your baiting at all - but I suspect that would have disappointed you, so ... You are dead wrong about my attitude. I was neither "snippy" nor "out of sorts" in my reply to "andklinger". I am going to be "snippy" and "out of sorts" - now!

My "sin" was - very politely asking that words be used in describing a problem, instead of acronyms or abbreviations. I even made a point to thank " andklinger", following my request. What more could I have done to be nice (enough) for your highly cultivated sensibilities?

You ask too much, and you don't know what it is you are asking. Actually try it from my end sometime; say, when you have 10,000 or 15,000 hours to spare. You will be working only for a very occasional "thank you" followed immediately by a scathing (or sometimes gentle and oh-so-kindly) critique of what you've done to offend, and how you might have been more sensitive while giving freely of your time and expertise to people you don't know, some of whom appreciate the value of neither your time nor your expertise ... all the while maintaining a happy face.

To paraphrase Jack Nicholson's character in A Few Good Men (the movie):
"How dare you enjoy the benefits of free and nearly instant "help" in learning and using this evolving software technology ... all the while criticizing the manner in which that (free) help is being provided!".

Now that is "snippy" and "out of sorts"!
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Hi andklinger,

DilbertG's post was most helpful--I was having the same issues as you. As suggested, in Projects > skins...,

Hope you are back on track again. Now i can embed a captivate 2 swf into other content on my LCMS. Thanks for the post.

PS: If you still want your playback bar to appear below your captured screens, add a little extra space at the bottom of your capture area before you begin recording your screen activity--that is, capture a little of your desktop. It helps if you change your desktop color to match what you will be using as your over-all background color.

Yep, that covers it well. Have a great day!
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True, There is always a "but" :).

When publishing a captivate project, you may end up with following files.
1. <project>.swf
2. <project_skin>.swf (Switch it off by turning off the borders in skin dialog)
3. standard.js (This file is required because of the Microsoft's changes in the way they show controls like flash player. Without this file, you get a transparent rectangular mask with dotted boundaries around the flash file. You need to click this mask first, before interacting with SWF. To remove this mask, standard.js is used.
Also this file is generated only when the Export HTML option is selected in publish dialog)
4. <project>.htm (Controlled by Export HTML option in published dialog)
5. breeze-manifext.xml and <project>_BDMetadata.xml
These two XML files are needed if you want to publish to Breeze server. To trun them off Deselect it in the Project ---> preferences --> preferences tab. Turn off publish Adobe Connect Enterprise metadata)

thanks

That's a good catch, Loud Howard, but ... (there's always a "but" isn't there). While dropping the borders will eliminate the need for the "skin_" SWF, you still have the "standard.JS" file as baggage - and it can't be eliminated, even if version 1.0.1 playback controls are utilized.

Bottom Line: You are going to have extra "baggage" files unless you elect to eliminate playbar navigation entirely and replace it with Captivate's own buttons or click-box objects - as far as I can figure.

Have a nice day, all.
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