I delayed our acquisition of eLearning Suite 1 because I insisted that we needed to wait for eLearning Suite 2, as this issue was a huge problem for me, as I create alot of custom built AS3 content. I should probably add here that this issue led me to the decision to stop using Captivate altogether in the current development of my eLearning content for presentation purposes. It is required that the computer used to view the training has Flash Player 10+ and has Firefox 3.0+, Internet Explorer 7+, or Safari 3+ installed." This is to insure smooth operation of training modules and animations. "For optimal viewing it is recommended that these modules are viewed on a current computer with at least a 256mb video card, screen resolution of 1280 x 960 and 2 gigs of RAM. I had to put this disclaimer in my site for my customers. Playing everthing all at once really needs to be fixed in Captivate because older computers can not play Captivate generated swf's without a lot of problems.
This code does however allow Flash Catalyst generated swfs to play in Captivate. I though this would force Captivate to play the animation once that slide was opened. My animations still runs horrible in Captivate and fine outside of Captivate. Var urlReq:URLRequest = new URLRequest(url) I just started using this code in Flash to make and importing the swf into Capitvate. I wish they would find a solution to this. My knowledge of Flash action scripting is limited and it takes me forever do develop. There needs to be some solution to make the animation play when you go to the slide that the animatoin is on and stop playing when you leave. This is not Rapid content developement as advertised if you constantly have to go into flash and write custom action scripts to get Captivate to function. I too am getting tired of all these issues and really hoping CP 5 would have been a solution. I really do not want to have to tell my customers that if your computer is more than three years old you can not view my training modules.
But if you have a lower end computer all the animation plays jerky and frames skip. Works great if you are using a dual Xeon Workstation when viewing. So if you have 20 slides with 5 animations the computer has play the capitvate project and all of the animations at the same time. The reason they are not working is because the whole captivate module is being played at the same time. I made a previous post on the forums about my animations not working right. This is the same issue I am having as well. (synchronising with project, externalising animations, uncompressing animations)Īnyone else had similar issues and have any idea for a work around for this issue? Now I've only been playing with C5 for a few hours now, and I've tried everything I can think of, save an external loader. What's worse is there's no AS2 animation mode to fall back on. I really would have assumed this would have been fixed by now, especially as it was supposedly rebuilt from the 'ground up'.
Now, i've just installed Captivate 5 and i'm having the exact same bloody issue. Whilst this was a clever work around, it never always worked as flawlessly as I like and inevitably caused other problems. This was rather painful and time consuming, and I ended up programming a custom widget to do it for me, for a function which should have otherwise been quite a simple "insert -> animation". Veterans of Captivate 4 and AS3 will remember this issue, and the way to generally get around it was to create custom flash loaders, which would load an external SWF. What's happening is the Captivate Timeline doesn't seem to understand the queue points for each animation, and just plays them all at the very start. What this essentially means is, on slide 1 you would hear the audio from slide 3, 4 etc, and by the time you reach those slides, the animation has ended. I updated to Captivate 5 and eLearning Suite 2 almost soley for the reason that I wanted to fix the issue wherein Captivate would play all play all the embedded animations in your project at the same time, regardless of your position on the timeline.