Captivate: control flash animation

When there is an audio flash file in your Captivate slide and the user click next, the sound of the animation might not stop and it keep playing in the background of the next slides. This issue does not happen when you preview the project, but for the published file. The problem can be solved as per the the following three cases:

Case 1: In Cp 5.5, under the AUDIO section of the button properties, click to select the Stop Slide Audio When Clicked check box. Note that this feature doesn’t work, if the sound is embedded in the FLA file.

Case 2: If sound is embedded within the FLA file and you can edit the flash file, bring the embedded sound at the top level in the timeline of the slide.

Case 3: If sound is embedded within the FLA file and you cannot edit the flash file, create an advance action. In the advanced action, you can define two actions: hide the flash and go to next slide. The hide action will stop the sound of the flash file.

SWF for Android Phones

I successfully played a SWF file locally (by copying it in the SD memory) on a Dell Streak through this link:

file://sdcard/[filename].swf

However, my friend could not play on Xoom (Android 3.0 Honeycomb) through the same link. Then I figured out that there was also a same issue with Acer Iconia Tab A500, which also runs on Android 3.0 Honeycomb.

Then a flash developer came to my help. He converted the SWF file into the APK format that could be played on Xoom.