Doug,
Sorry if I'm coming into this discussion late and I don't
have time right now to look through it from the start. Is a new
window acceptable? Meaning, when the user clicks on the button in
the Breeze presentation, is it okay if a new browser window opens?
If that's the case, then you should be able to just create a button
(it's been a while since I looked at Captivate so I'm not sure if
you can do it in there or not, but at the very least you could do
it in Flash) that opens up a new blank window and accesses the URL
with the captivate movie.
Actually, I'm glad you asked this, because it gives me
something to consider when I start developing my next round of
elearning courses. I hate the idea of embedding captivates into
powerpoint. This alleviates you from needing to do so, and also
alleviates the size restrictions of ppt:
Upload the captivate-generated swf to the Breeze content
area. You'll need to remember to set permissions appropriately.
Then just copy the URL for that captivate swf and call it via your
button. In flash the button code would look like this:
myButton_btn.onRelease = function() {
getURL("
http://mybreezeserver.com/mySWF",
"_blank");
}
If you want to control the appearance of the browser/page
appearance, you'll need to upload the captivate-generated swf (as
described above) along with the calling html file. You do this by
zipping them up together into a zip file and naming the html file:
index.htm. As long as they're zipped up together then Breeze will
be keep the pathing correct for you.
Also, you mention wanting to close the captivate window. I'm
not sure exactly how this is done, but I'm sure at the very least
you could do it via javascript by using the zipped up method above
- from the Breeze presentation just call the index.htm file, which
calls the swf. Then at the end of the cp swf, have a button that
calls a "browser close" command via javascript. I'm not familiar
with javascript and have admittedly never used this, so I may be
off. Hopefully Marc or someone can chime in.
Of course, if a new blank window is unacceptable to you, then
my suggestions are out the window (no pun intended!). : )
mark