Sorry, but currently there is no compatibility between the new Captivate and the classic Captivate. However, you should be able to run a copy of the classic version as well for those times when you need to update old projects. ... View more

Both Free and Paid versions are available. The free version will leave you with a watermark logo and you're not supposed to use it commercially but the pro version will grant commercial business use and all the e-learning tools. ... View more

I made a switch to ActivePresenter from Captivate after about 20 years and the transition was almost seamless. ... View more

That's fair. I just know I have tried launching projects right off the eLearning Community and had to wait a ridiculous amount of time for them to open. Early on I often just closed it thinking it didn't work and one time I left the tab open to do something else and finally it appeared. If you don't have a server to place the project - you might look into something like Amazon's AWS Free Tier ... View more

Shot in the dark here but how long did you wait? I have tried launching many a "New Captivate" project that others have posted in the community and have literally waited minutes before it appeared on screen. ... View more

@OzBassist - if you haven't done a trial of ActivePresenter - you might consider taking a look.   ... View more

If you wish to reuse the script across multiple buttons - you can substitute variables for the numeric values and pass in different values for each button. See the code below.   // place this code as an onEnter action // declare the variable to hold the starting frame var frameStart; // This function will serve to back up a project // The function will take three parameters // numFrames will denote the number of frames to back up each execution // totalFrames will denote the total overall frames to be backed up // freqTime will be the timeframe that we move back by the numFrames variable function backUp(numFrames,totalFrames,freqTime) { setTimeout(function() { cpCmndGotoFrame = cpInfoCurrentFrame - numFrames; if (cpInfoCurrentFrame > frameStart - totalFrames) { backUp(numFrames,totalFrames,freqTime); } },freqTime); }   Now you could have three different buttons with minimum code.   // Capture the starting frame var frameStart = cpInfoCurrentFrame; // call the function // 1 frame at a time // a total of 25 frames // every half second backUp(1, 25, 500); ---------------------------------------- // Capture the starting frame var frameStart = cpInfoCurrentFrame; // call the function // 1 frame at a time // a total of 10 frames // every half second backUp(1, 10, 500); ---------------------------------------- // Capture the starting frame var frameStart = cpInfoCurrentFrame; // call the function // 1 frame at a time // a total of 25 frames // every 50 milliseconds backUp(1, 25, 50);   Adjust the values as needed to achieve the desired effect. Be sure to keep the function itself in the onEnter action so that they can keep a proper scope. ... View more

Here is how I edited my file. Right between cpInit();  and  initialized = true; Feel free to add a different solution in this location if you desire.     ... View more

There are many who advocate for Review My eLearning. I have not used it myself so cannot speak from experience but it may be another avenue to look into for you. https://www.reviewmyelearning.com/   ... View more

@Lilybiri - I am aware. I am simply saying I am unaware of a way to set the default location. Right now... the idea that it was moved accidentally seems the odds on favorite.   If  they were to close out of the project and re-open it - or even just refresh the browser - It should go back. That could help confirm or deny the thought. ... View more

It has always been centered for me - I have not yet seen/discovered a way to change that by default. ... View more

If you have your own built-in navigation - do you need the playbar? I believe you can simply drag the playbar where you like (four corners or bottom center) The learner can - in the published project... ... View more

Great news! Now to figure out what to do with your extra time on a Friday! 🙂 ... View more

If you want to hide them both... and... there are no other objects on the stage with Button appearing in the name... try this You'll notice the first part is the same - to grab the current slide ID and array of objects. What changes in the second part is that we filter for 'Button' instead of 'Caption' Then - instead of simply hiding the first one (newArray[0]) - we cycle through the whole array and hide them all.   setTimeout(function() { slideID=$(".cp-frameset").attr("id"); myArray=cp.D[slideID].si; },500); setTimeout(function() { const filtered = (col) => myArray.filter(i => i.n.includes(col)); const output = filtered('Button'); newArray=output; for(i=0;i<newArray.length;i++) { cp.hide(newArray[i].n); } },1000);       ... View more

Do you have a way to distinguish the buttons apart from other objects on the stage? Like we had with "Caption"? A regular smart shape and a smart shape turned into a button keep the same name so we cannot separate them based on ID unless you changed the names. ... View more

Glad to hear that this worked for you. I appreciate the follow up. ... View more

I am not 100% sure of the plan here but from what I can tell - it sounds like we have two captions on a slide and want to hide one of them at the start with the ability to show it on the click of a button. Are these two separate smartshapes with text?   Here is what I might do using JavaScript - and it is best to implement this up front so that as you replicate the captions (smartshapes) you also replicate the JavaScript that is attached to them.   In essence - you make the caption a button with two states one blank (default) and one with the hint. Clicking the button will change the state but since the JavaScript is the exact same for all instances of the button - you don't have to do the little updates save for the change of the hint text itself.   Basically - this is the code    var thisBox=$(event.target)[0].id; cp.goToNextState(thisBox);   The nice part about this code is that it does not matter what the name of the object is. Clicking the button would grab the name of the object for you and then use that name to go to the next state of the button like a toggle.   Hopefully that helps somewhat. It is probably the least complicated JavaScript solution I can think of for this scenario. ... View more

Great thread - both of you! ... View more

Even better is that I don't need to use a JavaScript solution anymore! They have listened and reinstated the autoplay - and it works!! It is off by default on a new project. I had to admit that I didn't notice this menu until it was pointed out. So small...     ... View more

A couple shots for example I have a small graphic sized the way I like on mobile.   When I switch to desktop - it is too big.     ... View more

Fixed size makes perfect sense in some cases. I will offer up navigation as an example. I know that you and I both prefer not to use the built-in playbar - and instead - opt to create our own navigation.   Even with a responsive project - I maybe don't want some things to scale because they are appropriately sized on phone, tablet, or desktop. If I size a next button for mobile - I don't want it to become super huge on desktop and likewise, if I size it just right for desktop, I don't want it too small on mobile.   Consider the following image - I think I should be able to have a simple Next and Back navigation system as shown such that the bottom container keeps my two buttons fixed while the rest scales and moves appropriately. I cannot do this simple thing.     But there are times when I may not want other blocks to adjust the same way. Maybe I just want the container to adjust it's height and width rather than everything in it as well. Things rearrange in the container and the container grows in length to accommodate but my text and images don't unless they would be larger than the width.   So my 400px wide image remains 400px on a 1600 w desktop and on a 600 wide tablet but only scales when we go to a phone at 380 wide.   I am cursed with the ability to make webpages responsive while fine tuning the behavior of each object on the screen individually if I so choose. I seek similar from my authoring tool. ... View more

I had a simple image that I wanted to put on the screen. It was only like 50 w x 65 h Adding it automatically stretched it across the width and cut off the top and bottom so that my 50 w x 65 h was more like 50 w stretched to 1200 and only the middle 20 h of the pic was visible but stretched to like 200.   It took me several days to figure out how to have a simple image that should easily fit on my stage appear normal. Even in a responsive project - I want certain things to have a fixed size regardless of the items around it. ... View more

You can have a single image per slide but doing it is not intuitive by any means. General process as I have discovered it. 1. Insert image media block (Not Image Grid) 2. Click on the "container" (not the image or the text) 3. Deselect caption and subtitle (only image should remain) 4. Select the image  5. Go to Image Source and click the little folder icon 6. If you have an image on your PC select system 7. Browse for and select image of choice. 8. Select the "container" (not the image itself) 9. Under Alignment and Spacing you can play with the content width and padding as desired to size the image as you want.   That whole sizing thing is awful - would much prefer just keying in the dims I want. ... View more

Yeah - video not so hot when you switch to portrait view...   Not sure why eLearning Community has to be so much different than here... I submitted a logic puzzle a couple weeks ago for my game and puzzle series and it still isn't approved.   All the students who post there for their homework assignments - I hope they aren't marked late when they fail to appear on time. ... View more

I don't care for all the blank space either - particularly on desktop. Big obstacle there - however - is scaling a video all the way to full screen could cause it to be overly pixelated.   Whenever I created something that I needed to scale - I tried to make according to the larger size requirements. Generally speaking - I can scale down and keep it looking good better than I can scale up and keep it looking good. Less of an issue if you're working with graphics and have SVGs at your disposal.   I have v12 on my computer but I have not played with it a great deal since I really don't need/want it for anything. I mostly play with simple things, get frustrated, and go back to work. In my environment, it is not a production-ready application. ... View more

Regarding the square idea I personally would much rather have a project that filled my screen as much as possible with small bars top/bottom vs square and a huge bars side/side or all on one side. That said... I seems plausible to me that if you crafted/configured the responsive authoring tool to always scale 1:1 based on the shortest side and with the remaining width/height - "responsively" fill in with the TOC - it could work.   Me: I am a non-responsive creator all the way and, like Lieve, - I will simply choose to scale if needed. I've made some projects intended for mobile and in those cases, I simply picked dimensions for the stage appropriately, put less on the screen, and made buttons a little more "fingertip friendly", etc.   I, too, will be sticking with 2019 until the non-responsive side of version 12 is complete. Extreme loss of flexibility in responsive authoring - in my view. I hear lots of hype about Rise... Lots of people excited that Adobe now has something to sort of match that if I can really say that... I don't author with Rise, so cannot speak about it directly, but I am very unimpressed with courses I have taken as a student that were made with it. ... View more

I think making things in Captivate is great! I think what I am getting at is that if you do create things outside of Captivate such as a video or PowerPoint - consider leaving them outside of Captivate and uploading them to the LMS as separate artifacts.   Certainly - there are times I have created a video and embedded them within Captivate - but I try to minimize that where I can. In the case of an LMS - I use multiple tools and upload them separately. If I create a PDF document it is uploaded on its own rather than embedded within a Captivate file. If I need to make a change to the PDF I change it and upload the revision. If I embed that PDF in a Captivate project... now I have to update the PDF and the Captivate file and upload. My preference would be to find a way to creatively present the information of the PDF natively in Captivate if possible.   In the case of a standalone project - no LMS - I will embed whatever is needed.   Obviously - context dictates much of how I might go about things but I focus heavy on interaction with Captivate and fewer slides breaking up deliverables into smaller chunks. I like this because if my learners are trying to plug away a little bit at a time they can make visible progress by completing 3 of 10 objects rather than constantly being somewhere in the middle of one big one.   One of my favorite sayings - "Mile by mile, it takes a while. Inch by inch, its a cinch." Tough to take the whole staircase at once, but one stair at a time I am confident I will get to the top.   Now I am rambling but I hope you get the gist of what I am driving at. ... View more