First, Captivate demo's are usually meant to be played standalone. This is
ecspecially true with the quizes. I built a CaptivatePlayer because people
generally create many demo's without a consolidated way to play them
together linearly. The downside is, the quiz & emailing code that Captivate
creates fails to work with the SWF is loaded into another via loadMovie. I
have yet to find a solution (nor really investigate the problem fully).
This is because Captivate writes the ActionScript API for quizes at compile
time and does not document this API, nor provide the source code for it.
Therefore, I'm left to using decompilers to find my answers.
Secondly, Captivate DOES provide an API for Captivate 1 SWF's to be
controlled; this is how I built my player.
Third, Captivate 1 exports to Flash MX 2004 & Flash 8, allowing you to
customize it to your needs. Thus you can extend it with additional design
and code if need to be to help faciliate getting information to Flex.
Fourth, you cannot talk to non-Flash 9 SWF's in the Flash 9 player, and
currently Captivate 1 only supports Flash Player 6 (or 7, can't remember
exactly), so you'll have to utilize other communication messages such as
proxy SWF's, sockets, _javascript_, etc.
The first one, however, can be a deal killer, so invest some investigative
time.
The Captivate Development Center should have more information. There is an
ActionScript API posted in the documentation somewhere, but I can't find it
at the moment.
http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/captivate/
http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/captivate/articles/captivateplayer.html
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Sharon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Flex Coders" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 1:09 PM
Subject: [flexcoders] Using captivate within flex
I'm just about to start a project for a training site. The goal of the
site is to track trainees progress through several modules. Each
module will contain either :
1) links to external sites, a powerpoint presentation (probably
converted to captivate) or a video.
2) A quiz that covers the previous content.
The trainee should be able to look at the content to find the answers.
Each module quiz will be graded and stored in a PostgreSQL database
designed to track user progress through the modules.
The idea is to have a flex app (probably flex 2) using flex data
services and the hibernate adaptor.
Possibly using a tab navigator to display the module content i.e. one
tab for learning content , one for resources, and one for the quiz.
Does this sound like something that is good use of captivate (I've only
used it for a couple of demos).
And I'm not sure what it's capabilities are or how to integrate it with
flex. It seems like it should be a good fit but I can't find any
articles on using the two technologies together?
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