Hello community. Flashcard question

[sigur_rosser]

Hi.  I'm new to Captivate but have used Director and Flash for a long time.  I have inherited a handful of courses that use some sort of proprietary system based on AS2 SWFs and an html/xml type framework deployed on a SharePoint site.  My client is the US Navy.  I've been maintaining and modifying the site by editing what is already there.  I am tasked with building a new course and am fed up with the framework as I really don't understand much of it.  There is however a component in it I'd like to keep using.  It is a flashcard activity.  The student must turn over all the cards in the stack before advancing.  Is there an existing solution similar to the one shown.  The user will click a card on the left, drag it to the right, push the FLIP CARD button, and then drag it onto the pile to the right where it disappears.

Here's an image of the card flipped.  You can see the "Next" arrow is greyed out.

Is there an existing interaction or solution that I could employ in Captivate?  I'll be using version 8 or 9.

Expect to see a lot of me here!  This adoption of Captivate will certainly require some help!

best,

Eric Vetterick

[Lilybiri]

I just took out your mail address, bit dangerous on a public forum. Or do you want spammers/scammers?

Are you Dutch (looking at your name) speaking?

There is no ready-made solution for flashcards AFAIK.  I could imagine a way with effects, advanced/shared actions and variables.

[sigur_rosser]

Thank you Lilybiri.  I only speak English - I'm in the US.  If I was to import this as a swf file, would there be a way to have it communicate its complete status to enable a next button in Captivate?

[Lilybiri]

If you created an interactive widget (flash-based) it can communicate with

CP.

[RodWard]

Your original post mentioned that the framework involved AS2.  Be aware that Captivate does not support AS2 components now, only AS3.  However, in the future Flash itself is likely to be unsupported on many platforms (already so on mobile devices) so you might be better off moving to HTML5 rather than using any Flash or ActionScript.

[sigur_rosser]

Hi Rod.  I appreciate the tip -  I was aware of the AS3 requirement.  Should I absolutely have to (client expectation), I will re-create this in AS3.  Will there be any issues with the swf parsing/importing variables/data from external files - such as XML - when it's imported into Captivate and subsequently deployed to a Sharepoint site?

Thank you  very much for engaging.  I'm probably going to pop up in this forum a fair amount, as I get rolling with Captivate.  Do you do any consulting?  I have a bunch of questions!

Best,

Eric

[RodWard]

You'll soon see if the AS2 component you add to Captivate is causing any issues.  If it's going to conflict you will see the Captivate SWF go into a fit that was aptly nick-named by  my good friend Jim Leichliter as the O.F.O.D (Orgasmic Flicker of Death).  The SWF will start flickering madly showing alternating images of your first slide and the components of the playbar all jumbled up.  Not pretty.

Captivate content often doesn't play well from SharePoint sites.  It's more designed for normal web browsers and LMS servers.  But by all means try.

I do some consulting on occasions, but most of the information I know I put into the e-books I sell from my website.

[sigur_rosser · Accepted solution]

Horrible news....  I met with my project manager and the Captivate implementation has been killed - meaning I have to stick with the old framework.   aaaargh~!

So aggravated.  I was really looking forward to moving on.  Perhaps I'll be back one day.

Alas, thanks for such a promising start and what seems to be a great community!