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Hello,
I am new to the Captivate experience.
I need to be able to show the total running time of my movies as well as how much has passed since the start. Is there any way to do this, a dug trough the Skin control, only to find nothing of the sort?
Any help much appreciated.
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Hi drmkkk,
I assume you are using Captivate 4. There is a system variable called cpInfoElapsedTimeMS . This variable shows the time elapsed in milliseconds since beginning of your project and that too during runtime. Insert this variable in a text caption and show that text caption for the entire project.
As per total running time, it can be found out at:
Manish
http://blogs.adobe.com/captivate
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Another way of achieving your goal is the TOC. Since you are new to Captivate, another way of showing the elapsed time/total time of the movie, determined by the time duration of each slide, is using the TOC-feature. You can activate this feature bu the menu Project, Table of Content, Show TOC. In the standard configuration this TOC shows both elapsed time and total time.
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Thank you both, I was hoping to find a solution where I can just check something and have the total time/remaining displayed - much like in the TOC, however without having the slide menu appear. Actually I am a little stunned such a basic feature is not a deafult one - running time for me is one of the very basic parameters of a movie.
As far as I can tell, using M_Anand's approach I will need to do some scripting to show this to the user, please correct me if I am wrong. Also I like what I see in the TOC (what I need), however I don't like it takes half my screen and I need about 1% of it.
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Hi there
drmkkk wrote:
...Actually I am a little stunned such a basic feature is not a deafult one - running time for me is one of the very basic parameters of a movie...
By all means you (and others) should request this as a feature!
Cheers... Rick
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