Lectora and Captivate
February 15, 2005 12:00 AM
All,I have found the best way to integrate either a Captivate or Robodemo file is to put the animation into a popup window. This way when the window shuts down the course does not exit. Also I can size the popup window to any size needed to accomodate the animation. Call the popup window from a button on the page. I generally create an entire chapter in one of my courses to animations. I disinherit all formatting and buttons on this chapter so I am dealing only with blank pages and then adjust each page size to fit the animation. When I call the popup window I turn off everything but the scroll bars and the resize option for the window. This has been very successful for me.If you have to have the animation on the primary Lectora screen do not set the animation to close but just to stop. As a suggestion I would set the first and last screen to be the same on the animation so when it stops it returns to the same screen. Clicking on the animation agian (or however you start it) will restart the animation on the first slide.Have fun.Shawn
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Well -- I can't really say why because I do not have captivate. But in robodemo on your last frame make a button to close the window.Make sure to choose "javascript" and try the following code:window.close();You can also use this field to plug in Lectora code like:function trivNextPage();If it is not a new window.The only other thing is that the new version of IE has all these security settings that can really mess things up.. depending on your deployment platform. Search "Mark of the Web" if you think this is the problem.
I have used Lectora and Robodemo extensively. I have not upgraded to captivate yet -- so I am not sure about the setting in the new version.But a few things that you can do are:1. -- In Captivate call the next page in Lectora at the end of the movie by issueing the Lectora javascript function:function trivNextPage()On your last page of the captivate movie. /////////////If you have version 2005 you could also create a button that is not shown to the user on the page and create your lectora actions for it can call it with your captivate move something like:function action2296(fn)See the below for more info on communicating with Flash to Lectora. This is a really helpful post: http://community.trivantis.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=1059&KW=2 004%2D12%2D09%5F131357%5FLectora%5Fvar%5Fto%5Ffl ///////////////I have had performance issues with calling javascript from Robodemo. Sometimes it takes several seconds for the commands to execute.2. -- You can launch your 800 by 600 Robodemo movie in a new window from Lectora. This way when your robodemo movie closes it only closes the window that it is in.3. If it is an option make your captivate movie 800 by 580 or your Lectora File 800 by 620 and use the bottom 20 pixels to put navigation buttons. At the end of your captivate movie. Put prompting text to use the navigation at the bottom of the screen.I have not seen the message that you mentioned.. Captivate is coming next week so maybe I will seet it then.Good Luck!SimonEdited By: spuleo on 38398.4011921296
Thanks! I'll try each method and see what works best.I've opened the Captivate movie in a new window, and interestingly, when it tries to close the movie, it opens a new IE window and displays the message asking if I want to close the window. When I choose yes, the second IE window closes, but the Captivate movie window stays open. Thanks again. Brian
We're new to using Captivate to add software simulations to our Lectora courses, and we've run into a problem that we can't figure out. Perhaps y'all can help:The Captivate piece is published as a flash file. One of the publishing options we'd like to use is "When the movie finishes, close the movie." However, after we put it into Lectora, the movie closes the entire Lectora window, not just the flash movie, and then opens multiple IE windows (as many as 41) trying to execute a Javascript "close window" command. It also displays a message for each IE window asking if the user really wants to close the window.The Captivate piece is 800x600, which is the entire Lectora window. So, the questions are: after the Captivate movie is over, how do we return the focus to the Lectora course? And how do we keep the message from popping up? And why do all those IE windows come up?Thanks for the help. Brian
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