accomplish this is to just link to an external captivate flash movie
that updates the database with the quiz results.
--- In [email protected], "Manuel Saint-Victor"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> During my time with Captivate I was unable to find a way to
dynamically pull
> questions from a database. That might have been due to my personal
skill
> limitations but I found that I had to put the questions in manually.
I hope
> someone can call me wrong on that one but that's something would
definitely
> check into.
>
> From what I was told when I called Macromedia a year or so ago- the
Flash
> quiz component is more robust. I'd venture to say that you might be
better
> off creating a custom Flex component for a particular quiz question
type.
> I'd think that it's matter of time before all kinds of components
like this
> start coming around.
>
> Mani
>
>
> On 4/28/06, JesterXL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Possible, but a few challenges.
> >
> > 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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