Dieter, Yes your suggestion solved the problem. I turn off the Playback Controls, Borders and TOC in all my projects, so never thought to look in there. Thank you. Peter. ... View more

TLC, Yes, line 46 was the correct line, and the addition of cp.movie.play(); worked perfectly. I have now added this line to the standard index.html file so that each time I publish the cp.movie.play(); is part of the index.html file. Thank you for the help, much appreciated. Peter. ... View more

TLC, Line 46 looks good. I will test and report back in the next couple of days. Cheers Peter. ... View more

TLC, The files I am using are just plain CP, not videos, flash or other animation. In the two examples I have just used a single slide using the Captivate defaults to be sure it is not my content that is causing the problem. There was some patch to Chrome, but that was for a very old version of Chrome, and I don't want to have to force users into updating their systems. I tried turning the Autoplay On / Off, but the user still had to interact at the start of the project. I tried to update the index.html file with some code, but there were various examples of the code, none of which matched the code in my default index.html file. I also prayed to the Gods and sacrificed a small chicken on the alter of Adobe, but that made a bit of a sticky mess on my desk. Any other thoughts would be welcome and appreciated. Peter. ... View more

Loroz, Thank you for the information. All the information I found also indicated that for Apple devices there is no way to avoid the Play button. Do you know whether there is a way to avoid the Play button on Android devices? Thank you. Peter ... View more

TLC, You have confirmed what I thought would be the case... Captivate is not the right tool for this as it would take a shed load of work to get it up a running. Thank you. Peter. ... View more

Lilybiri, I suspected that the answer is as you described. I was hopeful that there may have been a workaround using a variable... it would be nice if Adobe implemented your concatenation request. Thank you. Peter ... View more

TLC, Thank you. Your answer is much more elegant than mine. Peter ... View more

I'm answering my own question, but would still appreciate any better way to do this. I noticed that the SWF is called from a file ending in xxxxx.htm and the HTML5 is called by the index.html file. So I used some javascript (shown below) to look for the current file name in use by the browser and put it in to myURL variable. I can then use the myURL variable to identify whether the project is SWF or HTML5. if ( window.cpAPIInterface ) { // GET THE URL AND STRIP OUT FILENAME INTO myURL VARIABLE // window.cpAPIInterface.setVariableValue('myURL', document.location.href.substring(document.location.href.lastIndexOf('/')+1)) } I tested this and it appears to work. Peter Cardiff (Still raining, cold and now its dark) Wales UK ... View more

Gania, Not such a stupid question. I have problems with understanding the way CP8 works with Save and Save As. As an example. I have two folders, FolderA and FolderB. I open up ProjectA from FolderA, by using File,Open and physically going to the folder. I then use File,Save and the project is saved.. I then use File,Open to open ProjectB from FolderB. I then use File,Save and it saves it. However, if I use the File,Save As command Captivate offers to save my ProjectB in the previously used FolderA. I often use version numbers at the end of my files names, such as ProjectBv01, ProjectBv02, and I have sometimes found that a file saved using Save As has ended up in the wrong folder. Instead of File,Save As I now shut down Captivate and copy and rename files using plain old Windows, so I know what files I have in what folders. (A bit OTT, but it works for me.) Good luck. Peter Cardiff (Still sunny with a light breeze) Wales UK ... View more

Rod West, I just cleared my cache, (stored on my local drive), and then used an undelete program (Recuva) to see if they were recoverable, and they were all there. It may be too late for you now, but it may be worth a try. Good luck. Peter ... View more

FBSBL, I use Cap8 and that Tab order in properties has always bugged me as well. Good luck with the change request! Peter Cardiff (Sunny but with a chilly breeze) Wales UK ... View more

Dowbright, This may or may not be of benefit to you. I use projects with a menu at the front allowing the user to choose a specific Topic in the project and the slides created sequentially on the timeline. Menu Topic A Topic B Topic C Project Timeline | TopicA slides 1-10 | TopicB slides 1-10 | TopicC slides 1-10 | Sometimes I get a problem when the user picks the last menu item as soon as the project starts, but unfortunately the project is still loading slides behind the scenes, as so the project cannot get to the Topic that is not yet loaded. In the example above, if the user selects TopicC, the project will have to wait until the 20 slides of TopicA and B are loaded before it can display TopicC. As a way around this I reorder some of the slides so that the first ones to be used appear are closer to the front and so load first. Project Timeline TopicA slide 1 | TopicB slide 1 | TopicC slide 1 | TopicA slides 2-10 | TopicB slides 2-10 | TopicC slides 2-10 | In the example above, if the the user selects TopicC, the project only has to load 3 slides to get the the first slide of TopicC. Whilst the user is on this slide it gives the project time to load the other slides in the background. When the user has finished on the TopicC slide 1 the project jumps to TopicC slide 2. Good luck Peter Cardiff (Another dull and overcast day with rain likely...until next June) Wales UK ... View more

Lily and TLC, Thank you both, this is my result.     if ( window.cpAPIInterface )      {      window.cpAPIInterface.setVariableValue('myURL', document.location.href.substring(document.location.href.lastIndexOf('/')+1))      }      window.localStorage.setItem("myCallingMenu",window.cpAPIInterface.getVariableValue('myURL')); The code looks for the current URL in the browser and then strips out just the filename. The filename is then placed in a variable named myURL The contents of myURL are then stored on the hard disk in the browser local storage in a variable named myCallingMenu. Why do I need this? I will use this in a menu system. I have a number of seperate menus (menuDoctor, menuNurse, menuAdmin, menuPharmacy etc etc) Each of these menus calls projects specific to those job roles. However, each menu can also call a common project, such as 'infection_prevention'. When the infection_prevention project finishes I need it to go back to the menu it was called from, (doctor, nurse etc) So I will use the code above to store the filename of the calling menu in the myCallingMenu variable on the disk, and then when infection_prevention finishes it will read the filename in myCallingMenu and return to the correct menu. (I've got the reading code working as well) Why do I do it this way? I don't want to use the Aggrigator thing, I find it too cumbersome. If I tried to combine all the projects into one file the size would be just too large. Our network is slow, so small projects work well. Using individual projects allows me to ammend one section without having to recomplie the entire project. The PC I run captivate on to create the projects is a bog standard business PC designed for nothing more taxing than word processing, so Captivate is slow, therefore small projects are better. Large projects crash more than small projects. (I do all my work on my local drive, working across a network crashes even more) I hope this will be of help to anyone else who needs a similar thing. Peter Cardiff (Still overcast and grim) Wales UK ... View more

Lilybiri, I see we are in the same boat! Having looked at the code again I can also see that it is not what I need. The code shown is for going to a URL, whereas I want to get the current URL from the browser window and utilise it Captivate. I will persevere and let you know the result. Peter. ... View more

Lilybiri I looked, I read, I tried, I failed. I looked again, I read again, I tried again, I failed again. (Repeat x 10) The problem with the example on page Dynamically Leveraging Web Objects in Adobe Captivate 8 - CaptivateDev.com is that it is complicated, and as the writer says "For those of you who don’t know JavaScript, I totally understand that this looks like alien hieroglyphs that will make your head spin." Well my head is spinning! I used the examples exactly as written, presuming that the variable $$webAddress$$ would be available at the end, but my caption box containing the $$webAddress$$ remained blank. I extracted the code:      /* Get the web address from Captivate */        var webAddress = window.cpAPIInterface.getVariableValue( 'webAddress' ); and tried to work with that, but still nothing. I can sort of see what the example is doing, but it is too complicated for me to make adjustments to indentify where I am going wrong. From looking at the code I have learned something; I looked up the try and catch commands and now undestand what they do, but the rest is just beyond my understanding. Any thoughts or suggestions would be really appreciated. Thank you, Peter ... View more

TLC, Publishing as SWF at the moment, but would like to prepare for HTML 5. I'm going to plough through the link that Lily provided, and try and pick out the bits of code I need (I am not a programmer). I will post my results back here. (I may be some time !) Thank you. Peter. ... View more

Lilybiri / Rod, Thank for the answers, much appreciated. I will use the method of putting a shape on the first slide that is displayed for the entire project, then use the Hide+Disable features to get rid of it when automatic running is chosen. Thank you. Peter Cardiff (Overcast but promising to be sunny) Wales UK ... View more

Lilybiri, Ah.. I see, the trick is to GROUP the images. A simple solution, and obvious when explained. I will be back at my desk in the morning grouping images all over the place Thank you. ! regards peter ... View more

Lilybiri, Some users do not want to use JavaScript, but have to consider it as a last resort. Some users just can't see how Advanced / Shared actions can be made to work without having to define a variable for each of my images. And as I will have a couple of hundred images in the project I really don't want to spend my life defining variables. My thought of stacking the images would mean I could just bring the required image to the top, and add or remove images from the stack without having to add and delete various variables. If I am barking up the wrong tree please point me in the right direction. I only post a question on here when I have tried and tried and tried to find a solution by myself, and I turn to this forum as a last resort, not as an easy way to get other people to do my work. Thank you Peter ... View more

Gray Susan / Lilybiri. I'm happy to use any technique. I did have a look at Hide / Show, but presumed that for each click I would have to ensure any image being shown then became hidden. So for imageA I would need to say something like: SHOW imageA HIDE imageB HIDE imageC and then for imageB I would need to say something like: HIDE imageA SHOW imageB HIDE imageC and imageC HIDE imageA HIDE imageB SHOW imageC In writing the original question I tried to keep it as simple as possible, in reality there will be more than 3 images, potentially 20. I did look at Shared Actions, but really for the life of me I could not figure out how they work, and I have spent a lot of time messing about with them. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you Peter ... View more