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matthewd1987
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November 19, 2015
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Button Captions

  • November 19, 2015
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Hi,

I'm building eLearning for software training. I'm building a screen that has a screen capture of the software system, and want to have clickable highlights that provide feedback for each highlighted area clicked.

I'm using a button with a caption. Question is, how do I make the caption stay on screen until the end of the slide ( which is when the user clicks the Next button).

Its driving me nuts.

Thank you

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    Correct answer Lilybiri

    I essentially need to achieve a screen with a graphic. Graphic has multiple highlight boxes. User clicks each highlight and a different feedback/caption box appears and remains on screen. When complete, user clicks a Next button to proceed.

    Ideally I would like each feedback/caption box to disappear/reappear each time a highlight box is clicked, but I'm not sure if that's too time consuming.

    I'm after the easiest way to achieve this


    My approach would be this;

    1. Replace the duo highlight box + transparent by a shape button with the look of a highlight box. Why two object when one can do the trick? Moreover a shape button can have any form whereas a highlight box is always rectangular. Have all the shape buttons pausing at the same time.
    2. Create the feedback text containers and hide them in output, will label them Tx_one, Tx_two.....
    3. Group the feedback texts in Gr_Text
    4. Create a shared action that will be triggered by the Success event of each shape button:
      1. Hide Gr_Text          the group (bold) will be a parameter
      2. Show Tx_one        the text container will be a parameter
    5. Apply this shared action to each shape button and choose the right parameter. The first will always be the same, only the second one will have to change

    That shared action can be reused on each slide where you want to have a similar set up (group will need another name, each name has to be unique). Shared actions can easily be used in other projects as well.

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    RodWard
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    RodWardCommunity Expert
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    November 19, 2015

    I'm assuming when you say "using a button with a caption" you mean the button's On Success feedback caption, correct?

    If so, you have the option of timing the feedback caption to appear for the duration of the slide so that it remains visible for longer.

    Alternatively you could turn off the button's own feedback captions and have the button SHOW other hidden captions when it is clicked.  That way those captions will remain visible until either the end of the slide or some other action is taken to hide them again.

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    matthewd1987Author
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    November 19, 2015

    Thanks for the response.

    Yes correct. Its a transparent button. On Success = No Action. Display = Success checkbox checked (Captivate 8).

    Could you please provide guidance on doing your two options?

    Cheers

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    matthewd1987Author
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    November 19, 2015

    I essentially need to achieve a screen with a graphic. Graphic has multiple highlight boxes. User clicks each highlight and a different feedback/caption box appears and remains on screen. When complete, user clicks a Next button to proceed.

    Ideally I would like each feedback/caption box to disappear/reappear each time a highlight box is clicked, but I'm not sure if that's too time consuming.

    I'm after the easiest way to achieve this

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