I am having an issue getting an introduction I created in Flypaper to play in Articulate Presenter. I have the Flypaper intro saved as a .swf. I am using the Flash movie option in Articulate to place the file in my course. The issue is that when I preview or even when I publish to our LMS the Flypaper .swf doesn't play. Other .swf files play fine. Any ideas on what I am doing wrong.
Yes at least I think the SWF is self contained. It does play in my browser just fine. I downloaded the SWIFF Player and it plays in that fine. I don't have a link, but can attach the actual SWF.
Pretty nice intro, too, I haven't seen too much built with Flypaper so it was nice to see it.
I know it doesn't help with the problem of inserting the Flypaper .swf, but for this specific example I believe you could have built something very comparable in powerpoint without the need to use Flypaper. Just add your images to the ppt slide, add the appropriate animation to the background object of the building and import your sound file for the music. Might be something to try....
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Hi Rhona- you might want to check out this article:
Flash movie best practices
Is the SWF self-contained (no external references)? Does it play OK in your browser?
Do you have a link to the SWF you can share here?
Hey Gabe,
Yes at least I think the SWF is self contained. It does play in my browser just fine. I downloaded the SWIFF Player and it plays in that fine. I don't have a link, but can attach the actual SWF.
I believe flypaper is actionscript 3 and will unfortunately only work if you insert as a web object
Phil
Hi Rhona,
This screencast should help you import the SWF file into your presentation as a web object:
https://player.vimeo.com/video/143914206
Thanks for posting, Rhona.
Based on this page, it looks like Phil may be correct.
So you could create an HTML container for your SWF, then insert as a Local Web Object.
Pretty nice intro, too, I haven't seen too much built with Flypaper so it was nice to see it.
I know it doesn't help with the problem of inserting the Flypaper .swf, but for this specific example I believe you could have built something very comparable in powerpoint without the need to use Flypaper. Just add your images to the ppt slide, add the appropriate animation to the background object of the building and import your sound file for the music. Might be something to try....
Thanks everyone and Brian...I agree. Working on doing that in powerpoint right now.
You guys ROCK!!!!
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