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Anonymous
December 12, 2016
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Advanced Captivate Geek Question: Changing Caption Colors

  • December 12, 2016
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I want to change the caption color in my button:

YOU MUST ANSWER THE QUESTION BEFORE CONTINUING.

I need a solid color button with a specific RGB value. Since I can't input that, here's my proposal/theory:

I want to create a BMP file and place it in the captions folder so that I can use THAT for my button.

I see in the folder of captions that there are BMP files and FCM files, each with the same name. I don't know what the FCM files are for

I want to create a BMP file with the precise color I need for my button and then place it in this folder.

Do I need to create a FCM file too?  Do I need that? How do I do that?

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    Correct answer Lilybiri

    That is very strange, because it really looks like the Hint Shape Style.  What you indicated in the screenshot was not a button, you always talk about a button, but this is a feedback message like the Retry, Success and Failure messages. You can find them in the master slide used for this slide. I see a Review area, which means you are talking about a quiz slide. Quiz slides are different, those objects are embedded in the master slides, you cannot select them in the timeline but have to select them in the master slide (to change the look for all quiz slides) used for this type of question (there are 4 master slides depending on the type).

    Couple of questions:

    1. Which version of CP are you using (full version number)?
    2. Which theme are you using, please?
    3. Can you check in Preferences, Defaults if this option has been checked (which is not by default in CP9 from which this screenshot is taken):

    You can change the look of a specific object within the Object Style Manager. Look in the category Quizzing, either for Smart Shapes (if that is the choice in the Preferences) or for Captions. The feedback message which you showed is the Incomplete caption/shape which uses normally the caption/hint style. You can define a new style by cloning that style, give it a name, change its color and set that style as default style. If you change the existing Hint style, you have to be aware that it is used for quite a lot of messages, not only for the Incomplete message on the Quiz slides.

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    Lilybiri
    Lilybiri
    Legend
    December 12, 2016

    I was smiling, because you are talking about a text caption but the screenshot shows a shape as text container? The default setting is indeed to have shapes (which are much more flexible than captions). From its colorI suspect it is the feedback with the 'Default Hint Shape Style'. (check the style in the Object Style Manager) Why do you want to revert to that legacy work flow for buttons?  Shapes can be formatted in Captivate: you can fill them with any image, solid color, gradient, texture. You can choose any 'form' of shape, format the text. For the captions you need to use an external graphical application, and yes, you need to create both an image and a fcm file. For shapes you can change the margins in Captivate.

    Since you asked for captions: first change the Preferences, to replace the shapes by captions. Use one of the existing captions as example, especially the fcm file. If you google you'll find some old tutorials about creating a custome styled captions. Or maybe someone else will offer you a link. I haven't done it since many years, my apologies. Shapes are vector-based, another advantage.

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    Anonymous
    December 13, 2016

    Yikes!

    I'm a tad confused.

    The screen shot and object are shown to be "Default Hint Caption Style" in the properties panel in the Style Name box at the top.

    That's where I got the data from. It's also called the "Incomplete Caption" way at the top of the panel.

    I want to have the

    YOU MUST ANSWER THE QUESTION BEFORE CONTINUING

    button in a different color but I can't choose an RGB combination or anything other than appears in that selection of choices from the dropdown.

    What I want is that button to be a color of my choosing. 

    I guess I was trying to be too clever in my first response.

    What's the fastest, easiest way to change the color of that button?

    Lilybiri
    LilybiriCorrect answer
    Legend
    December 13, 2016

    That is very strange, because it really looks like the Hint Shape Style.  What you indicated in the screenshot was not a button, you always talk about a button, but this is a feedback message like the Retry, Success and Failure messages. You can find them in the master slide used for this slide. I see a Review area, which means you are talking about a quiz slide. Quiz slides are different, those objects are embedded in the master slides, you cannot select them in the timeline but have to select them in the master slide (to change the look for all quiz slides) used for this type of question (there are 4 master slides depending on the type).

    Couple of questions:

    1. Which version of CP are you using (full version number)?
    2. Which theme are you using, please?
    3. Can you check in Preferences, Defaults if this option has been checked (which is not by default in CP9 from which this screenshot is taken):

    You can change the look of a specific object within the Object Style Manager. Look in the category Quizzing, either for Smart Shapes (if that is the choice in the Preferences) or for Captions. The feedback message which you showed is the Incomplete caption/shape which uses normally the caption/hint style. You can define a new style by cloning that style, give it a name, change its color and set that style as default style. If you change the existing Hint style, you have to be aware that it is used for quite a lot of messages, not only for the Incomplete message on the Quiz slides.

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