Flash migration / interactivity

[captivate_dev]

Hi,

I need to migrate some old flash interactive content with has (complex interactivity and animations) into HTML 5 to be uploaded to an LMS, some of the interactivity shows a graph that changes based on the variables entered by a user and some have drag and drops exercises.

My question is, is Adobe Captivate capable of doing this or do I need to look at other advanced Authoring tools on the market.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

kay

[Lilybiri]

You didn't tell which tool was used to create that legacy content? My suspicion is that multiple tools were used, not just one authoring tool. Neither did you mention if you have the raw material, or just the published SWFs?

An interactive graph would have needed AS, which means it probably was created with Flash Builder. If you had the raw material, opening it in Animate CC (new name of former Flash Builder) it could be possible to export as HTML animation after editing. Captivate supports HTML animations, but you'll need some JS skills to have them communicating with Captivate (for the variables). You could also have a look at InfoSemantics widgets (Australia) to add with that.

Captivate has Drag&Drop functionality, with the possibility of using advanced/shared actions both for the Success and Last Attempt events, but also for individual drag actions (Object Actions). Any advanced/shared actions can also have embedded JS. Whether this is sufficient for your purpose depends on more details.

If you can find an 'advanced authoring tool' which can do all what you want out of the package, without need for any other tool or for programming skills, I would love to hear about that wonderful tool.

[captivate_dev]

Hi,

Many thanks for responding to my message; the legacy content was developed in Flash years ago and I only have the SWFs. So presumably I can import them into Animate CC as you suggested and edit it as necessary. Can I build advanced user input interactive with Animate CC only is it only a animation tool.

It has been a while since I have created anything in flash.

[Lilybiri]

You cannot import SWFs, you would need the raw fla file.

Animate CC is most used for game development which means interactivity is possible for sure. 

The former Actionscript which was used for Flash output is now replaced by JavaScript.

As for the D&D, maybe it can be done natively in Captivate? As well as some other interactivity. I was only referring to the graph based on input of variable values, that is not possible only with Captivate, reason why I referred to Animate. But you can also use only JS in Captivate.

[captivate_dev]

Thanks for in-depth help...much appreciated! - going forward I think the Drag and Drops will probably be done in Captivate or Articulate Storyline, but the advanced user input with the graph animations. I will have to see how this can be achieved using JS with Captivate.

Are there any tutorials online to do this?

[Lilybiri]

I don't think you'll find a tutorial for exactly that use case. 

Personally I realize as much as possible in Captivate, and use JS only when necessary (random numbers, formatting numbers, arrays...) or I use the InfoSemantics widgets CpExtra(for Captivate) and CpMate. (for Animate) You can download a trial at their website. Google for InfoSemantics Australia.