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Is there a way to show/hide a group of objects that will work in html5?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 10 Sep 2014 14:49:07 GMT

I consider myself to have a fairly decent understanding of captivate and its functions but this recent issue has stumped me.

I have a button with javascript attached to it that runs a typical if loop: (pseudo code to follow)

if(variable = 1){
show "group" and variable = 0;

} else{

hide "group" and variable = 1;

}

Now normally, I would do this with single images, etc, and it would work fine. You click the button (the image being unticked where it says "visible in output") and the image shows itself, then you click the button, and it hides. Very standard stuff.

My issue, is that captivate seems to let you name a group you make....but they have not given you any control of that group.

Problem:
I want a way to show and hide a group of objects by only clicking one button (when published to html5).
I want to only have to reference the group and dont want to need to write a separate line of code for every single component that makes up that group (assuming the solution has to be coded).

Is it even possible to control groups like this within captivate?

Thanks!

Question X of Y screws up when numbers get too high

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 23 Jul 2014 13:13:30 GMT

Hi, we are having an issue right now where we have courses which are entirely question slides (random question slides). In each question slide at the top there is a box that says the "Question X of Y" which obviously changes into "Question 1 of 50", etc. depending on what slide we are on. We publich to html5 and this issue doesnt show itself on ipad (safari) but it does on windows (any browser).

here's the issue:

The question X of Y on certain slides becomes:

question X of

it doesn't matter if we increase the width of the box, and all standard options don't work either. Whats massively peculiar is it seems to effect random numbers of X. For example, 7 of 50 will screw up but 26 of 50 will be fine. That's with all shape and settings across each question slides set to the exact same.

Anyone got any insight into this?

Since the most recent update, any previously made captivate files we republish won't display

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 04 Jul 2014 08:03:50 GMT

(skip to "I'll break down the problem as best as i can" to avoid rant )

Essentially, we have near a hundred eLearning courses we have made using captivate dating back as early as captivate 4. We have been upgrading through the versions as we go and where there has always been little glitches that present themselves this one makes the list sense. This isn't even an upgrade in version, just a little patch (that seemed to add the ability to resize the "Question X of Y" bits on question slides).

So, does anyone have any help on this problem? Adobe have been so far not very helpful, essentially offering the wisdom and clarity that comes with years of not trying to fix problems. Their advice being to basically remake each course from the ground up, something that will take a LOT of time (and for what!? to fix their mistake?).

I'll break down the problem as best as i can:

Since recent patch to captivate, pre-existing files that we publish again will not display on windows computers but does display on Ipad's, etc. Uploading to a server does not fix the problem, it remains the same. The internet window opens up the same as normal but after a brief loading bar moment, the window remains blank. A check of the code shows that the files are being loaded but simply not displaying in any form. If we publish a completely new file, it displays fine. The type of browser has no impact on the problem. We have also found that if we go into the console and use a command to skip to, say, the second frame, it works!? So the issue literally seems to be with displaying in the first place.

Thanks in advance if anyone can even help suggest ways to get round this problem, it has come at a terrible time when we need to make changes and present material to another company but can't even view our publishes files.

Captivate 6 - Quiz slides, submit button behind other buttons problem

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 12:04:10 GMT

Hi, I am trying to position my buttons on my question slides so that the back button is behind the clear button, and the next button is behind the submit button.

Using the info others have posted i managed to get the back button and clear button aligned perfectly.

However, the advice of "remove and re-add the button to bring to front" does not work with the submit button as it cannot be removed, thus it is always behind the next button. Is there a way to bring the submit button to the front or to specifically hide the next button during the initial quiz taking?

thank you

Captivate 6 to 7 conversion immediately triples file size

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 19 Aug 2013 15:19:55 GMT

Yeh, the title says it all.

We have been converting captivate 6 files to 7 and without doing anything other than "open" then immediately "save", confirm update to captivate 7. File size jumps up by more than triple its size for seemingly nothing.

Is anyone else having this problem or have suggestions as to how i might go about preventing this?

We have tried changing file types of images/videos inside file, tried changing backgrounds etc before and after. tried everything obvious.

Nothing seems to help enough to cut back the massive amounts of data added on.

any help would be greatly appreciated because we paid a decent amount of money for this upgrade and so far it seems to be a step backwards.

Inserted swf animation plays slowly 50% of the time.

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 25 Jun 2013 15:12:17 GMT

Hi, I am currentlyhaving a problem where i am trying to add a swf file animation to a captivate 6 project.

the swf is made in flash 4 and is at most 2mb big.

there is lots of moving things in the swf file.

Basically, when i add the swf to any project (heavily tested) or even a blank project:

the cpu jumps to 45%ish
the animation plays slowly at points or constantly, if i move forward a page, then move back it pretty much always is smooth like it should be but if i go to next page then back again, this time it could be slow. there seems to be no tangible pattern to whether or not the animation will run choppy or smooth.

My animation originally was in layers, i systematically broke it all down so that everything moving is on the first layer now.

There's a lot of masks in my animation.

Both captivate and flash are/were set to 30 fps.

I have been trying to fix this for weeks now but to no avail, i have exhausted every bit of advice i can find.

Remember, the problem still persists even on a blank project.

If anyone can help me, that would be greatly apppreciated. I will be around for the next hour then on again tomorow (and the day after, and the day after)

thanks

How do I control movement, forward one slide in captivate, with an animation/swf? (any way)

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 16 Jul 2013 10:12:43 GMT

Hi,

Basically, I have a captivate project where i have condensed 20 slides into an animated excercise, its much better than it was before. The swf file, produced in flash cs4, is on 1 slide of the captivate project.

What i want is to be able to make sure the person cant go to next slide without having first done the flash excercise. Now my first thoughts were to have the flash excercise have an object over a next button in captivate, then when the project is finished, the object disapears and the button is visible. The problem was that the button was still clickable even with the object on top.

So I am also looking at ways to actionscript the problem.

realistically, any idea, regardless of how simple or 'cheaty' it is, is going to be good enough for me. Don't care how i do it, just want to make sure people cant advance till the animation is completed (or on frame 2).

thanks

Most efficient way to play and pause swf animations in captivate 6?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 02 Jul 2013 09:42:38 GMT

Hi, I have a bunch of animations i have created to put in captivate 6 projects.

In the past i have had many problems with my animations not playing properly, etc.

Having fixed those problems, I am now ready to add play and pause buttons to my animations, restart, etc.

Basically, my animations moving parts are all on the top layer, so when captivate pauses the slide, it will pause my animation too. This is not what i want as you cant set a slide to have infinite time. because my user may want to replay the animation for hours, technically he can't because the slide will eventually hit its own timer and the animation will freeze where it is regardless of its own actionscript, etc.

However, as i have read before, if i convert my animation into a symbol it runs even if captivate pauses. This is what i want, as i want the pause, restart buttons to be within the swf file, not captivate.

The problem is that, apparently, having animations with moving parts that are not the top layer causes problems, apparently (if this is true, then adobe is such a lier, boasting creative suite when the most basic functions of one aren't functional in another). So i don't quite know what the best way to do this is now.

My animation basically is a well kill process, in stages the animation runs then pauses to inform the viewer of some facts, they are presented with a resume button to continue, it plays after button is clicked then pauses on own, etc, etc, then at end it pauses on own and presents a replay button. Again, all of the moving parts are currently on the top layer.

Anyone know what my best path should be to achieve this without sacrificing playback quality, etc?

Only half of check or X shows on question answers

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 15:10:45 GMT

When reviewing a quiz with Cap 6 it shows a correct tick or a x on the top left hand side of the slide stating if the question was answered correctly or not, We can only see half of check or x. Where can we move the check or x so it can be seen when reviewing.

(using 800,600)

Message title was edited by: Brett N

Captivate 6 - Can I add a loading image?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 08:30:40 GMT

Hi,

I am currently working on Elearning using captivate 6, i was wondering :

Can you add a loading image or any kind of loading indicator, when the project is taking a while to switch from page to page?

thanks