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I know this is an old post, but in case anyone else is doing research on 508 like I am, they might find this tidbit helpful. You do not need a widget to enable CC. You can set the CC variable on the first slide and it will be on until the user clicks the cc button to turn it off.
Show the properties of slide 1 and OnEnter, Assign, cpCmdCC with 1
-- Lori
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Hi,
The "Assign cpCmdCC with 1" at the first slide works perfectly in Captivate 4 to show the Closed Captions automatically. However, it seems to have a glitch in Captivate 5 where the initial showing of the CC area does not follow the stretch of the playbar. It only becomes normal after clicking the CC button to turn the closed captions off and then another to turn it on. Any idea on a work around to eliminate the glitch part?
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I believe the workaround for this is to insert a very brief slide as slide 1. Then you configure an on enter action for slide 2 that sets the CC.
Captivate seems to need just a wee bit of time to sort of "settle" and it should then work.
Cheers... Rick
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Thank you so much! It works
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Hi. I am using Captivate 5 and trying to switch on closed captioning automatically at the start of the show. The solutions you suggest look great except that I don't have the cpCmndCC option in the list of available options.
Any ideas what's happening (or what I'm doing wrong?)
Steve
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Indeed the options aren't there to choose from. I'm at a loss to explain why the development team didn't include them in this location. Perhaps there was some technical limitation that prevented it.
What you have to do is to create an Advanced Action to set the variable and hide or show CC accordingly. You then choose the On Enter action of Execute Advanced Actions. You then configure the action you defined that sets CC.
Cheers... Rick
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Thanks Rick. I'll give that a try.
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Hi,
Please do this:
Cheers,
--fred
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Many thanks Fred. This worked perfectly!
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Hi, I'm also want CC to show automatically but my properties do not include the cpCMDCC. Instead, the option is cpCMDMute. Is this the same as the cpCMDCC option? Lastly, does CC only show in the web viewer or will it display while only viewing a couple of slides?
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The problem I had was that the cpCmndCC option was not available in the drop-down list if I tried to use the Assign action
directly in the On Enter event for a slide.
Fred's instructions (er0425 above) resolved that by using the Execute Advanced Actions action in the On Enter event for the slide, and then setting up a script to assign the value of 1 to the cpCmndCC variable. If you follow his instructions you should get the required result.
One thing to be aware of is that if you set up the cpCmndCC script in the first slide of the show, the format of the captions is not correct - they come out in a small rectangle 2 or 3 lines high at the bottom left of the screen.To get around this problem, I inserted a blank slide at the very start of the show (duration 1/2 second) so the cpCmndCC script applies to the second slide in the show. The resulting captions then have the display format as specified in the setup options (CC Project Settings on the Closed Captioning tab of the Slide Audio dialog).
The captions are displayed if you preview the show using any preview option except "Play Slide".
Steve
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Thanks Steve. I will try this out.
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Hi Steve
If memory serves, the issue with setting the CC on too early is a version 5 issue. Admittedly I've not read the thread in its entirety, so perhaps what is being discussed at this point applies to 5. But the title of the thread indicates version 4. I don't believe the timing workaround was needed for version 4.
Cheers... Rick
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Hi Rick. I picked up on the CC part of the thread from a Google search and the replies were all relevant to the problems I was having in Captivate 5, so I fear it was my questions that dragged the thread off the Captivate 4 line.
I wish I had read your earlier comments my carefully as you had provided a solution to the problem with the CC displaying incorrectly as well!
Thanks for your help.
Steve
ps. I guess part of the problem with this type of forum is that it's simplest to just reply to a post, even if the reply is starting to wander off the original title. Mind you, there have been some useful solutions presented, so a Google search would pick up the details of the problem without needing to worry too much about the original title of the first post.