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RobE
RobE
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March 23, 2014
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Flash alternative

  • March 23, 2014
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Since setting up the cloud to use with Captivate, I've read the Flash is no longer the way to go.

I'm still looking to create interactive content where a person can click on something and then be taken to another page in the same application but can't find anything other than Captivate to do this.

Is there another Adobe progam I can use and have it output to something I can use on my website?

Below is a sample of what I'm trying to accomplish:

http://webmacaid.com/AU_6_Time_Capsule_AC_Manual.html

Any help pointing me in the right direction is greatly appreciated.

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    Correct answer TLCMediaDesign

    I managed to get the site to display the content inside the page it's supposed to but it's not showing the correct size of the content.

    The area where the info is supposed to be displayed it defined in the iframe tage but the actual content is way too large inside that area so you only get to see a very small portion of it.

    As I was writing this, I remembered I toggled the "Scalable HTML..." in captivate so I decied to re-publish it without that switch and it's working great, interactivity and all.

    This is great because now I can setup the site to use HTML5 instead of flash and can even use it on iOS devices if needed.

    Thank you so much for pointing me in the right direction. I just needed to put some thought into how to use this info. lol


    Great! I'm glad it worked for you. It's the same as putting your content in Wordpress also.

    Could you mark the question as answered so that others may benefit also.

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    ironmoon6972
    Participant
    September 13, 2020

    OMG! ... Folks here are using Flash Player for SO MUCH MORE, (so many MORE purposes), than I EVER have! I just want to know what to use to PLAY video links or such, the way Flash did for me SO transparently that I NEVER EVER even gave a thought to  HOW OR WHAT "Flash" was doing! I don't have a CLUE as to what I need to do to REPLACE FLASH???!! 

    Lilybiri
    Lilybiri
    Legend
    September 13, 2020

    I have no idea what your shouting is meant to achieve. As for Captivate, the team has been working very hard to offer the HTML5 output to replace the former SWF output. Some features will not have been replaced, but a lot of new features have been added which were not available for SWF output.

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    Russ_E
    Inspiring
    March 24, 2014

    you may also want to look at adobe edge animate.  great tool for interactivity in html5.

    just sayin'...

    thanks,

    Russ

    RobE
    RobEAuthor
    Known Participant
    March 24, 2014

    I played with it a bit this morning but can't figure out how to do the actions that I use in Captivate, and after what I see in the Captivate output to HTML5 I will still need to embed the code in the site page and there is a lot of extra bagage when exporting to HTML5.

    Any ideas how to embed the code in Muse so I don't loose the paylayout?

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    Russ_E
    Inspiring
    March 24, 2014

    Yes, the edge animate learning curve is probably steeper, but I haven't found anything in cp that couldn't be recreated in animate.

    But cp is absolutely the friendlier tool.

    As for Muse, I haven't used it but from what I have seen it should be fairly easy to integrate.

    Below is a link to a video on integrating Adobe Edge into Muse. 

    I imagine the process would be somewhat similar for captivate into muse.

    http://tv.adobe.com/watch/muse-feature-tour/integrate-adobe-edge-content/

    Hope that helps.

    Lilybiri
    Lilybiri
    Legend
    March 23, 2014

    Captivate can publish to Flash, and to HTML5, is that not sufficient?

    Lilybiri

    RobE
    RobEAuthor
    Known Participant
    March 23, 2014

    Thank you for the speedy reply.

    I just looked at the output option in Captivate 7 and don't show HTML5 as an option.(Or at least I can't see it.)

    Will that solve the issue because I can't loose the interactivity.

    Also, the next question then is does Muse support the HTML5 output where I used to have the Flash HTML code or is it just a replacemennt of the code?

    Captiv8r
    Captiv8r
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    March 23, 2014

    Hi there

    So when you click File > Publish from Captivate, you don't see this dialog:

    Cheers... Rick

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