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All these little widgets on my site use these variables, they are all in the Captivate help file
but I guess not many people can find them due to the amount of questions on the Captivate
forum

 

• rdcmndPrevious = 1
  Is used to go back one slide in a captivate movie

• rdcmndNextSlide = 1
  Is used to go forward one slide in a captivate movie

• rdcmndPause = 1
  Is used to pause a captivate movie

• rdcmndResume = 1
  Is used to play a captivate movie

• rdcmndRewindAndStop
  rewind and stop the movie

• rdcmndRewindAndPlay
  Is used to restart and play a captivate movie

• rdcmndGotoFrame|
  Is used to go to a specific frame, note this is Frame not a Slide (see rdinfoFrameCount)

• rdcmndExit
  does what is say's exit's the movie
  

• rdcmndInfo
  display the information window (Yep that little Info box that everyone moans about
  

• rdinfoFrameCount
  total number of swf frames in the movie (this is not the number of frames in the main Timeline, but the sum of all slide frames)

• rdinfoSlidesInProject
  number of slides in the movie (including hidden slides)

• rdinfoCurrentFrame
  current frame (goes from 1 to rdinfoFrameCount when you play the movie)

• rdinfoCurrentSlide
  slide currently playing (zero based)

• rdinfoSlideCount
  number of slides in the movie (not including hidden slides)

• rdIsMainMovie
  can be used to identify a Captivate movie

And a couple of unpublished variables

• rdcmndHidePlaybar =

  is used to hide or show the playbar 1= hide 0=show

• rdcmndCC =

  is used to show or hide Closed Captions 1= show 0=hide

• rdcmndMute =

  is used to mute or unmute the audio 1= mute 0=unmute

I do not use flash as I am not clever enought to understand it, instead I use Swishmax a nice little app.

To create an external playbar in swish I would create a set of buttons then add the following script to each

• Restart button
  on (release) {
  this._parent._parent.rdcmndRewindAndPlay = 1;
  }
  
• Rewind button
  on (release) {
  this._parent._parent.rdcmndPrevious = 1;
  }
• Pause button
  on (release) {
  this._parent._parent.rdcmndPause = 1;
  }
• Play button
  on (release) {
  this._parent._parent.rdcmndResume = 1;
  }
• Forward button
  on (release) {
  this._parent._parent.rdcmndNextSlide = 1;
  }
• Exit button
  on (release) {
  fscommand("Quit","true");
  }