Hi all
For anyone watching this thread, Mr. JasonReck had contacted
me offline regarding some files I've been attempting to get posted
to the Captivate Exchange for everyone to have access to. This was
prompted by a response to a different thread. After seeing his
note, I saw his request here for something along the lines of the
template that was linked to from this thread.
For what it's worth, there was never any "smoke and mirrors"
or intentional mystery or effort to keep things a secret or imply
it was extremely difficult to do and best left to more capable
developers.
Perhaps I have a different way of learning than others. I'll
freely and openly admit this. While I'm more than happy to read
about something and try to implement what I've read about, I learn
far more by actually seeing something in use first hand.
While it's true that Captivate does include a template that
seems to have been used to a certain degree as a foundation to
create what JasonReck linked to, what the two actually contain are
substantially different. The template supplied by Captivate results
in a project containing a grand total of 11 slides with no
navigation other than the Next button to move from one slide to the
next. The template JasonReck linked to appears to contain 23 slides
and have lots of navigation built into it. The look, feel and
operation are substantially different. Therefore I would have to
disagree that "Nearly all the work has been done for you by the
Captivate Development team", as there would be a fair amount of
work yet to be done to make what Captivate supplies come close to
what the template offers up.
Basically, I decided to have a bit of fun dissecting and
reverse engineering what was offered at the link JasonReck
provided. But to just explain all the steps that were required as
opposed to simply offering JasonReck the template seemed a bit of
overkill in this case. I then pondered which approach JasonReck
might appreciate more? Reading all about the steps I took to create
something matching what he saw or offering up the template I had
already created so it could be explored first hand? I suppose
JasonReck is the only person that can honestly answer whether I
guessed correctly.
The bottom line here is that there was never overt and
intentional obfuscation of information or intent to keep anything
clandestine from the world at large. I never "felt it necessary to
treat the explanation as though it is a secret, or private in some
way." as I seem to have been accused of. I've freely and openly
provided the link to anyone that asked via E-Mail as I requested. I
don't wish to publicly post the link here, as there are bandwidth
limitations where it resides and I don't wish to exhaust my
account.
Sincerely... Rick