[Comphelp] Flash Animation in New Seamanship Course

[Peter Ubillos]

Ron,

You need to install the Adobe/Macromedia Flash player on your computer. This is available from Adobe at:

http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash&promoid=BIOW

Regards,

Peter Ubillos
Boca Ciega Sail & Power Squadron
email: ubillosp at earthlink.net

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Ron Swope 
  To: ubillosp at earthlink.net 
  Cc: Member's helping Members' w/Computer Issues 
  Sent: Friday, April 13, 2007 1:01 PM
  Subject: [Comphelp] Flash Animation in New Seamanship Course


  The new Seamanship course looks really good with a lot of improved boat handling material.  The animation is listed in the Instructor Guide as "Flash Animation" and several slides using it appear in about half of the chapters.   You are supposed to activate it by clicking on a rocker button or play button.  When I do, I just advance to the next slide and do not get any animation.

   

  I have tried it on two different computers, both Dell laptops with Windows XP and Office 2003 which includes PowerPoint 2003.  I am running from the CD provided in the new Seamanship Instructor Kit.  I have checked with another member who is able to run it from the CD and the animation works.  When I open a chapter that contains animation, I get a message that reads "Some controls on this presentation can't be activated.  They might not be registered on this computer".  

   

  I understand some folks had problems with bad CD's that wouldn't open.  Everything opens and all slides are apparently there, I just can't make the animation work.

   

  A couple of questions:  

   

  What is "Flash Animation"?  How does it differ from the macros that we have in the Boat Smart CD?  Does it require a download to activate it?  If so, where do I get it?      

  Has anyone out there successfully run the new Seamanship CD?

   

  Thanks for any help.

   

  Ron Swope

  SEO

  Pensacola Sail & Power Squadron



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