Panning capability in Captivate - grey out rest of screen to focus

[adrianaharper]

Hi all,

I'm using Adobe Captivate 4 as part of the TCS2 suite.  I want to use the panning feature... but with a bit more "jazz"... i.e. pan somewhere on the screen to what I'm doing and then zoom in on what my mouse is doing while the rest of the screen sort of grays out... then continue with the demo...(hope that made sense...) Anyway- the pan feature doesn't do it alone and the zoom feature seems to make things more fuzzy than zoomed... any suggestions?

Thanks,

Adriana Harper

[Captiv8r · Accepted solution]

Hi there

The shading bit can probably be achieved using a Highlight Box object.

For the zoom, indeed it will pixellate on you and become fuzzy. If you can, take a screen capture of the zoomed area where it looks as you like. Then substitute the image for the zoom.

Cheers... Rick

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[adrianaharper]

Sorry for the late reply - and thanks for the info Rick! It worked. A bit laborious... but it worked 🙂

Cheers,

Adriana

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When I create a Zoom object and substitute an image for the zoomed area, shouldn't the image fade in or something? I've got the transistion set to fade in, but it seems to fade in the Zoom area rather than the designation area. I've never been able to get this feature to do much. Does anyone have a tutorial on how to use this effectively?