Can't get flash movie page to advance with restrictions, help!
Apr 19, 2013
I would like to go on vacation in an hour! I am trying to get a presentation to restrict the user and only allow them to go forward when a page is completed. I tried doing this, but on our 3rd page, we have a flash movie, that ends (in the status bar) - but still says "playing". When I click the next button in preview (previewing 3 slides, being on the first slide) - it says that I can't view slides I haven't seen yet - it won't let me move forward. I made the flash movie myself - it has a preloader and a stop command at the end of the movie. We have other pages in the thing - with flash movies - and it will advance just fine. Why is this not working? Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. It also never says "click to advance" like the other slides do. I double-checked the movie and it does in fact, have a "stop" action at the end. Can't understand why the other slides work and this one does not. Thanks for any help!!
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P.S. Please still respond - now I will be checking here, and in my email on my "vacation" ; ) (not today though, as I have to leave - this weekend, or next week) - thanks for your help!
Its kind of hard to tell whats going on, but I don't think its the flash movie. A stop() command will only effect the movieclip it is in, not the root movieclip which is the storyline shell. (At least it shouldn't). It might be a navigation setting that you have set. To test it out again in a neutral environment, create a new storyline project, create 3 slides and put the flash file in the first one and preview it. Then preview it and see if it works. If it does than work than the error/problem is in the storyline project. If it doesn't work than try messing around with the flash movie.
This is just some basic troubleshooting tactics. Isolate the possible problems and test, test, and test some more.
Hi Jerson,
Thanks for your response. This isn't in storyline - did I get in the wrong thread? Sorry, if I did. This is Presenter. Anyway, Articulate was not recognizing the end of the movie.
We figured out a work around. The problem was, we wanted to have the permissions set so the learner could not just "click through" the presentation - and since Articulate was not recognizing the end of the flash movie, Articulate would not let us move forward from that page. Well, just as I was about to rebuild the flash animation in powerpoint (which wouldn't have been as good) - someone else had the idea to put a hyperlink on the page, to go to the next page - and sync the hyperlink to show up when the flash movie was done.
Well, by doing this, it made articulate recognize the end of the flash movie! Weird, I know - but I don't care, it works!
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