Adobe CAPTIVATE 5 Help Manual page 155

Last updated 4/22/2010
In the Type menu, select System.
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In the View By menu, select MovieMetaData.
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Select the variable that you want to modify, and change its value.
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For example, to assign the name of your company to the
Value field, enter the name of your company.
5 Click Update.
Edit/delete a user-defined variable
1 Select Project > Variables.
2 In the list of variables, select the variable you want to edit.
3 Do one of the following:
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To edit the variable, modify the value/description of the variable, and click Update.
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To delete the variable from the list, click Remove.
Note: You cannot delete system variables or variables that are being used by text captions. Removing a variable referenced
by an action resets the action to Continue.
Controlling Adobe Captivate projects with variables
You can control Adobe Captivate projects with variables that you can set on the Timeline. Controlling a project with
variables is useful if you want to create custom SWF playback controls or if you are putting a project into an FLA file.
Using variables is an advanced feature that must be implemented only by users with a solid background in Flash.
To control the project through the skin file, add the prefix
The following commands are used by playback controls and preview:
Set to 1 to go to the previous slide.
rdcmndPrevious
Set to 1 to go to the next slide.
rdcmndNextSlide
Set to 1 to pause the project.
rdcmndPause
Set to 1 to resume showing a paused project.
rdcmndResume
Set to 1 to rewind and stop the project.
rdcmndRewindAndStop
Set to 1 to rewind and play the project.
rdcmndRewindAndPlay
Go to a specific frame.
rdcmndGotoFrame
Set to 1 to exit.
rdcmndExit
Display the information window.
rdcmndInfo
The following variables provide information currently used by playback controls and preview:
Total number of SWF frames in the project (this is not the number of frames in the main Timeline,
rdinfoFrameCount
but the sum of all slide frames).
Current frame (goes from 1 to rdinfoFrameCount when you play the project).
rdinfoCurrentFrame
Slide currently playing (zero based).
rdinfoCurrentSlide
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variable, select it from the list. In the
cpInfoCompany
cpSkinLoader_mc
USING ADOBE CAPTIVATE 5
Variables and Advanced Actions
to the variables.
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