SWF in Firefox

Question

Hi all,

I'm a student at The Art Institute of Portland. For an Intro
to CBT class, I decided to use Captivate for my first project.
(With no regrets -- I love the program and plan to purchase it.)

Here's a truncated version of the project:

http://www.greatchurchwebsites.org/GIMP/GIMP_tutorial_test.htm

(truncated to save forum members download time).

There's a lot to be done on the project to improve it, which
I'll be working on, but here's the problem about which I am
writing:

In Firefox on the Mac and PC, the exit button at bottom right
on the Flash skin does not work. Moreover, the Control/Command Tab
does not work (when the movie is playing) to create a new tab. (Not
that there is any reason or need to do so, but it's something I
noticed.)

Everything appears to work OK in Internet Explorer.

The full version of the tutorial was exported to Flash 6, I
think. The test was exported to Flash 8, just to see if that was
the source of the problem. (It's not.)

When I opened the exported htm file in Dreamweaver, I got a
message about needing to convert something (the OBJECT tags or
something) and said yes to it, so the htm code is not the same as
that which was exported from Captivate. (I mention this in case
that's the source of the problem.)

Tonight I'll try the tutorial with a different skin. Perhaps
that's the source of the problem.

Anyway, anyone have any ideas why the Exit button doesn't
work in Firefox? The fact the some of the GUI is disabled in this
manner (including the Control/Command Tab not working), will be
disconcerting to users, I'm afraid. (When I first tested the full
project online using Firefox on the Mac, there seemed to be other
keyboard shortcuts that stopped working.)

Thanks in advance.

Sincerely,

David Gillaspey

Anonymous · Answer

Hi Paul,Thanks for the response.First, allow me to clarify. By "Exit" I mean the button withthe X in it at bottom right on the playback controls of the swffile, assuming the controls are positioned along the bottom of theFlash movie.Normally, I would not have JavaScript turned off; but I didcheck to ensure it was turned on in Firefox. However, I would hopethat none of the buttons in the playback control would rely uponJavaScript. (One apparently does, as you'll see.) I did turn offJavaScript in Firefox (as a test) and found that all the buttons inthe playback control worked fine with JavaScript turned off(except, of course, the Exit button).I tried a different skin, to ensure that the source of theproblem wasn't a bug in the particular skin I first used. That wasnot the case.I found that the Exit button won't work even when I previewthe tutorial on the PC using the "Preview In Web Browser" option,which opens the exported movie in Firefox.You are correct in stating that the html exported byCaptivate doesn't need to be changed. (There's more to the storythan that, but I won't bore you.)Firefox has a JavaScript Console, which I have not heretoforeused. The Console yields a clue as to the reason the Exit buttonwon't work. This is the error message repeatedly displayed in theConsole after I have repeatedly clicked on the Exit button:"Scripts may not close windows that were not opened by script."Thus, the Exit button apparently is intended to triggerJavaScript code to close the window, only the window was neveropened by JavaScript in the first place, so JavaScript can't closeit. Apparently, the Exit button assumes the swf file gets played ina popup window, opened via a link or button that the user hasclicked. That will often be the case, but not always. In my case,the swf is embedded in a plain old HTML page.The code that Captivate exported looks like this:GIMP tutorialAnyone know how to resolve this problem short of alwaysdisplaying the swf file in a popup window?Thanks in advance.Sincerely,David Gillaspey

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