Go slowly when recording, particularly when recording websites in Internet Explorer Perform actions more slowly than you would normally during recording. Option Description Narration Records audio as you record the project.
 
 

Edit and create text captions with Adobe Captivate – Add a text entry box

Anyone having problems becomes the scrolling text function to work in a superposition of a provision fixed ePub? I have the latest version of InDesign CC, purchased last week.

Here is a picture of my file. As you can see, it’s really simple. Content area is on the right. You can’t see the whole box, but it is long enough to fit all my text.

On the left, I created a container box, wider but shorter than the content area. I then selected and used content in paste to place the content in the container.

Then, I chose the container, went to Folio overlays, and I called the vertical scroll content box, start at the top left and vector format. But when when I tried to preview more on problems of overview in a minute , the container appears as a simple text with no capability of scrolling box. I asked the help of Adobe people and they don’t seem any ideas not yet.

And the same thing happens when I hit an excerpt in the Panel inlays of Folio. I would like to know if this is specific to my system or a common problem. Since I bought only CC to produce annotated books, there is not much I can do without it. And if CC does not do, does anyone have a suggestion for something that a non-programmer can use to achieve the same result? This is a different beast than ePub ch-putting on the page.

Note that Folio Builder panels and overlays of Folio is not part of the interactive panel group. Digital Publishing Suite. You might find my new lynda. A bunch of videos are free and may be all you need. To look at the other, however, you will need a subscription. You can use my free pass URL to get a free week of free access to all the videos on lynda.

I get this error at the top of my Hotmail page: “Windows Live Hotmail was not able to complete this application. Microsoft may communicate with you about issues you report. This error occurs during the installation of the printer driver. I don’t have a disk for it, what can I do? Please help me how to solve this problem Thank you!!!

Scrolling text widget I work in Captivate 9. BTW, you missed two patches, current version is the version 9. Hi Amy, You can try the following: 1.

Thank you MohanA Captivate 9 – I need a lot of vertical scrolling text For a project delivered in HTML5 on a desktop computer, I will need at least a slide pixels high to accommodate a large amount of vertical scrolling text. A scrolling text box Hi, I looked everywhere to find a feature that allows you to have a scrolling text box.

Use this widget. I thought that I remembered there being an animation in the videos “kart of coffee”, but I couldn’t find the episdode Your text scrolls because you have set your paragraph tag in your paragraph to the marquee Style options: Scrolling text creates text scrolling.

Best regards Corey Scrolling text defaulting to white on white in question slides matching Quiz Hello The scrolling text is defaulting to white text in my question slides corresponding Quiz. Any ideas? Thank you Barb The text in the menu dropdown inherits the color that you assign to the corresponding answers. In the meantime, you have several choices: Do not use a black background for this question.

Use a black background, but place a rectangle of light behind the answers so that you can set the text is dark again. If you apply a little creativity, you can even find that doing it this way will look more attractive. Use a different type of drag and drop matching quiz question. Free trial download here. Because it uses objects from the screen as captions and areas of highlight for interactivity, it doesn’t matter what background color you use.

EditField with scrolling text Hello I need a field similar to the EditField, but with the scrolling text. How can I do?

Thank you! It will work. I used it in the past. Werk I niet met DPS peper, peperduur! You can also set the device height for each layout by selecting the Device Height check box in the Property Inspector.

If Device Height is selected, you can see the yellow border for each layout as shown in below screenshots for Mobile layout. Slide Height can be linked to Device Height by clicking the link icon next to Slide Height in Properties window as shown in the screenshot below. Change the slide height for specific view or for all views.

Viewport height is the page layout height for Primary Desktop , Tablet, and Mobile. You can adjust this height to fit any specific device height with the help of Slide Height option in Properties. Let us assume the viewport height and device height for mobile layout is Consider a case where the device height is , you can adjust the viewport height by moving vertical device height slider until you reach By default, the device height is linked with Slide Height.

You can de-link it by clicking the link icon next to Slide Height value in the Property Inspector. In this case, all the content inside viewport height is visible in mobile device, by default. So, this provision enables you to develop content accurately in the layout to match the device height. If the viewport height is bigger than the device height, then the content beyond device height is visible to the end user with the help of a scroll bar in the device. Now, you can align any object at center of the slide in all breakpoints of responsive projects.

Horizontal and vertical center alignment options are introduced in Captivate 9. Now, you can align any object at center of the slide in all breakpoints of responsive projects using Captivate’s horizontal and vertical center alignment options. You can choose horizontal and vertical center alignment options by right-clicking on the object and selecting Align as shown here.

Horizontal center alignment – if you apply this alignment, then you can move the object only in vertical direction in the slide.

Its horizontal movement is restricted. Vertical center alignment – if you apply this alignment, then you can move the shape only in horizontal direction in the slide. Its vertical movement is restricted.

Both horizontal and vertical center alignment – if you apply both the alignments then movement is restricted in both the directions. Color coding of the center and vertical alignment options is supported. The border color of two check box options attains the color scheme of breakpoint at which the alignment options are chosen.

If you have multiple shapes, then you can align a single object on the center of the slide and link the rest of the objects to the centered object to achieve slide centered flowcharts at all breakpoints. If you de-align horizontal or vertical center option, the object does not move back to its original position. You can capture the interactions across all views and set autofocus for a specific interaction area in views. Set one smart shape as a background image in Responsive project and you are allowed to set crop area for the background image in different views.

Questions and Results slides, along with Master Slides are supported seamlessly across all the views in the Responsive Project. This interaction lets users answer questions by dragging and dropping objects in the designated areas or objects. A drag-and-drop interaction involves a drag source and a drop target.

Users drag the drag sources and drop them onto drop targets. All the features of drag and drop interaction in Responsive projects are similar to the blank projects as well.

For information how to create a drag and drop interaction, various features of the interaction and best practices see Drag and drop interactions. To learn more about Captivate and how you can create engaging learning content, download the following projects:. Legal Notices Online Privacy Policy. Responsive Project Design. Fluid Boxes in Adobe Captivate. What is a Fluid Box. Using Fluid Box in Captivate. You can add Fluid Boxes the big button bar.

Horizontal Fluid Box layout. Create a single horizontal layout. This layout becomes a parent Fluid Box. Place the cue balls in the Fluid Box one at a time from the library.

In the Property Inspector panel, the following Fluid Box properties get enabled:. Center Align: Objects are centered along the axis. Vertical Fluid Box layout.

In the Property Inspector panel, choose the flow of objects and the type of object wrap. Choose the horizontal alignment of the objects — Center, Left, or Right. Choose the vertical alignment of the objects. Top Align.

Middle Align. Bottom Align. Space in Between. Space Around. Creating a Fluid Box project with multiple containers. On an empty slide, insert a Fluid Box layout, as shown below:. To modify the objects, choose the appropriate container.

On the Fluid Box containers, drag the blue handles to adjust the size of the child containers. To bring them back, perform any of the following: Click anywhere outside the stage area and then drag the mouse onto the stage.

Click anywhere in the staging area and select the parent Fluid Box in the Fluid Box Selector section. You can see that the handles return. Insert objects in the containers as shown below:. In case of a device with smaller width:.

Modify the width of a Fluid Box. Automatic Device Preview. Enabling wrap point for Fluid Boxes. Responsive capture. Responsive playbar. The location varies as per the installation directory in your computer. Create a backup for the playbar you would like to change. Open the playbarScript. For example, if you want the “Slider” to appear only in Tablet and Mobile views, then edit the code as follows: “Slider” : [false, true, true].

Relaunch Captivate and the playbar is updated. Responsive capture Responsive simulation. Open a Captivate Responsive Project. Choose the slide after which you want the recorded slide to be inserted and click OK. Screen Capture screen window appears.

In Responsive Project, click Mobile view. The solution to the color degradation issue is to increase the Video Color Mode to 32 bit before recording the lesson. It’s a simple process. Branch Aware is new in Captivate 6. Unlike other new features like HTML5 support and Themes , Branch Aware has gotten little attention and few people understand what the option does.

According to Adobe: “Use Branch Aware to calculate the final score based only on the questions in the branch that users have viewed. For example, consider that a project contains a quiz that branches into two modules that in turn contain a quiz. If a user reaches the module with three questions and 10 points each, the total score is considered as 30 points.

If this option is not enabled, the scores are calculated on the total number of questions in the project and not the module that users actually viewed. I don’t know about you, but I find Adobe’s description of Branch Aware to be confusing. Not to be deterred by Adobe’s description, I set out to play with the Branch Aware feature and figure out what I could and couldn’t do if I elected to use the option. I created a simple project that is Branch Aware.

You can download it here. The lesson has 12 questions. To establish the branches, I not only needed to select the Branch Aware option, I also needed to set my question Actions properly. After the last question in each branch, I jumped the learner to the QuizResults slide. If I hadn’t set the last question in each branch to jump to the QuizResults slide, my question numbering would not display correctly. Once a learner takes my quiz, the QuizResults screen will display the appropriate scoring for the branch that the learner took.

Even cooler? If the learner chooses “Review Quiz” once reaching the quiz results slide, the learner will only review the relevant part of the quiz. I was also surprised to find out that you can still require that the learner answer all questions within a branch.

I tried everything I could think of to mess up the scoring results, but my lesson reported properly each time. The bottom line is that Branch Aware is one mighty cool feature. Give it a try and I think you’ll agree. We teach two live, online Captivate 6 classes. Personally, I think TEBs offer the highest level of interactivity you can add to a lesson without the need for advanced programming skills. The assumed default usage of a TEB is short bursts of information entered by your learner.

However, there are instances where you might want the learner to type a sentence or two to simulate the use of a word processor or a text field where multiple lines of text are acceptable. In the image below, I previewed a lesson and typed a fairly long sentence into a TEB. Notice that once I reached the right side of the TEB, instead of wrapping to a second or third line, the text continued to move right.

I’ve published a ton of eLearning lesson using Adobe Captivate, and I have seen the Publish dialog box more times than I can count. Sometimes I get tunnel vision when working in a tool I’ve used for so long and often fail to notice when tiny little options are added to a dialog box.

If you hadn’t noticed the option in the lower right of the Captivate 6 Publish dialog box, join the crowd. The Scalable HTML content option is off by default, leading me to believe is wasn’t necessarily a good idea to use it. I was curious what the option would do, so I enabled it and published a SWF.

When the lesson opened in my web browser, the value of the option became clear. If you record a lesson at x, and the learner’s display is large, the x will float horizontally in the browser window. If the learner maximizes the web browser, the x lesson keeps its original size, and continues to float the learner will see more white space to the left and right of the lesson. However, with Scalable HTML content enabled in my test project, the published SWF always resized to fit my browser window proportionally , no matter how big or small I made my browser window.

I was concerned that the quality of the SWF would suffer if I made my browser window too big I have a pretty large display. I was pleasantly surprised when the lesson continued to look pretty good, even when I maximized my browser window. By Lori Smith. I love Adobe Captivate’s variables and advanced actions. One of my favorite strategies when working with complicated branching and quizzing in projects is to turn off the playbar on key slides via the variable cpCmdShowPlayBar assign with 0 to turn off, 1 to turn on.

I’m guessing that more than a few fellow Captivate developers have used this feature over the years because Captivate 6 has added a brand new quiz feature allowing the playbar to be hidden during a quiz.