Bitmap Caching and Memory Usage
Bitmap caching naturally makes Flash Player use more memory, because for every cached movie clip the pl …
Built-in Rules for Bitmap Caching
Flash guides you through best practices of using bitmap caching through some built-in restrictions. B …
Best Practices for Flash Player DetectionThe problem has riddled developers since the birth of Macromedia Flash: What happens when a si …
So Many Solutions, So Little Success
Over the years, I’ve met hundreds of Flash developers, and many of them have their own way o …
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This document is part 2 of a larger series that reviews the new tracking options available in Macromedia Captivate. The tracking option …
Overview
The tracking options in the Quiz manager dialog box (see Figure 1) are very similar to what was available in previous versions …
AICC Tracking Options
AICC tracking with Captivate is quite simple. Just create your content, publish for AICC and upload/import your C …
Captivate AICC Issues
There were some big changes to the AICC tracking mechanism in Captivate. Most of the changes facilitated two-way …
Conclusion
Captivate is a great tool for capturing and building interactive training demonstrations and simulations. It makes it easy f …
Note: This article concerns changes to the security model in Macromedia Flash 7. Macromedia has made some changes to the cross-domain s …
By using Questionmark Perception with Macromedia Captivate, you can use an animation to create an interactive test for participants rat …
Creating a Simulation with Captivate
First, use Captivate to create your simulation. If you’re not sure how to create a simulatio …
Adding Questions to Your Simulation
You can now add questions to the simulation; for example, you can add questions to a click box.
Whe …
Exporting Your Simulation from Captivate
When you have added your questions, export the simulation so that you can use it in Perception …
Importing Your Simulation to Perception
Import the Perception QML file that Captivate published into Perception using the following ste …
The Process: Users Taking a Perception Assessment that Uses a Captivate Simulation
When participants take a Perception assessment, a qu …
Having grown up with Macromedia Director and then discovering Macromedia Flash, I was, like most new media developers, a bit of a contr …
Getting Started
While this article is about how to create demonstrations and simulations with Captivate, you still need to understand t …
Creating a Demonstration
The plan is to show you how to define a site in Dreamweaver MX 2004. For most of my students the hardest part …