I decided to copy this over from my Captivate Genius blog. Enjoy.
I know that all of us care a lot about the function of a computer-based training when building an e-Learning module. I certainly do and I also care a lot about presentation. Let's face it, if it looks like crap, people are gonna 'check out'. So, my intent with a lot of the upcoming post are going to be foucused on some of the little things that will, hopefully, ease your pain as an e-Learning developer and help you make some really cool CBTs.
Let's begin with one of my favorite discoveries. I wanted to make a CBT that had a persistent animated background. The problem I was running into was my animation spanned the entire stage so, if I set the property to run for the length of the project, it placed it on top of everything. Obviously this is a problem. The other issue was, if I placed it as an object on the stage, it reacted with the playhead. So, if I had a button that stopped the playhead, my animation froze. Does any of this sound familiar?
I thought so.
Here's a very quick tutorial on what I did to overcome these issues and create a really cool GUI for my e-Learning module. Most of this is done in Flash CS5. I will also include an example to show the results.
Step 1: Import FLV file into Flash via File/Import/Import Video...
Step 2: Make sure that the video is imported as a Movie Clip - here's how:
- Locate your FLV file.
- Select Embed FLV option.
- Click NEXT.
- In the Embedding screen make sure to select Movie Clip (not Embedded)
- Click NEXT.
- Click FINISH.
- NOTE: if you want the backround to just continue looping, there's no need to write any ActionScript commands at all.
Step 4: Import the animation into your Captivate project.
That's it! Pretty Simple.
Thanks!
~ Chad Luke
