How do I make an EXIT button work!!

[pixelcat23]

I used javascript:window.close() in the button just as instructed to do on the adobe web site and it doesn't work. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Desperate in DC

[Captiv8r]

Hi pixelcat23 and welcome to our community

Unfortunately closing the window is problematic on a number of levels and no method is 100% foolproof. There are many factors at play. Browser type, how the window was opened to begin with, etc.

The easiest way to accomplish this is to simply edit the properties for Captivate and adjust the Start and End action so that the end action is to Close the project. Then configure a button or click box to jump to the last slide. Then if it can close, it closes! If it doesn't close, JavaScript likely won't be able to close it either.

Cheers... Rick

[Guest]

Hi Rick,

What do you mean by "edit the properties for Captivate and adjust the Start and End action so that the end action is to Close the project." Edit which properties, where?

Laura

[Captiv8r]

Hi Laura

In Captivate, if you click the Edit menu you see Preferences...
Click Preferences... and the Preferences dialog appears.
Click the Start and End node inside the Project node.

Once you are there you should see what I'm referring to. There is a drop-down selector that allows you to choose the action when the project finishes playing.

Cheers... Rick

[KCWebPlaza-5meuTi]

What I do is place a javascript CLOSE window function in the HTML page that plays the .SWF file. In Captivate, I create a button and tell it to execute that Javascript function, by name. That way, the user does not get a confirmation window, asking for permission to close the browser window. Working for me since Captivate 1....

[MMDENT]

I have had the same issue with my LMS. We ended up creating an image button and using the javascript:window.close(); command under Button Properties. The easiest way to make this work in Captivate 3 is:

1. Click on the upside down triangle just to the right of the Javascript code box on the button properties screen.
2. Choose "top" (this will indicate that you are trying to close the top window and will close the browser).
3. Test your project.

If this doesn't work, we also had luck by making changes to the standard.js file under c:\program files\adobe captivate 3\templates\publish. Right-click on standard.js and choose "edit". Copy the following code and paste it on the bottom of the file:

function closeBrWindow()
{
var ie7 = (document.all && !window.opera && window.XMLHttpRequest) ? true : false;

if (ie7)
{
//This method is required to close a window without any prompt for IE7
window.open('','_parent','');
top.window.close();
}
else
{
//This method is required to close a window without any prompt for IE6
this.focus();
self.opener = this;
self.close();
}
}

Next, in Captivate 3, add a button and double-click to set the button properties. On the “Button” tab, in the section “If the user clicks on the button” in the drop-down box for “On success:”, choose “Execute JavaScript”. Click on the ellipses button (…) below to bring up the JavaScript edit window. Enter the following line:

javascript:closeBrWindow();

Click “ok” and then “ok” again on the “Button” tab.

The "exit" button that you created should now close the browser window.

[carldufourm]

MMDENT, your method works fine (on IE6) when the file is hosted on a server, I have tested it and it works great. Only, my captivate project needs to work on both Online and "Standalone" versions (which would consist of opening the html file that opens the swf, from a CD)

Does anyone have a javascript way that works on both server, and "Standalone"? Any help would be greatly apreciated.

I have already posted on another thread and received help from someone for another method, wich consists to insert a blank frame at the end of the document, and choosing Close Project as the action to execute at the end of the Course. But on "Standalone", it also doesnt work.

Thanks in adavance!

[taliesinangelus]

You could always use a Flash wrapper program to do the CD version, carldufourm. That way you could pop up windows and close them with internal Flash commands and it wouldn't matter what browser or Javascript capability that your end user would have.

[Bizzazz]

Hi there. I tried everything you guys posted right here...but in vain... after I create the button then when clicking on it I select the java etc...Then When I publish it nothing happens.

Help me out please.