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November 5, 2008
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Can info button be removed without causing problems with playbar width?

  • November 5, 2008
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I'm using Captivate 3 and my project has the BlackGlass playbar situated in the bottom left of the slides with no border. I'm currently displaying it with just rewind, play/pause, mute and the info button. With those buttons the playbar is very small and compact, ending just after the info button, looking vaguely like this:

<__[Rewind]_[Pause]_[Mute]_[Info]__>.

This is what I need (other than info button) as I've got my own controls appearing next to it on the slide.

I've been into the fla file to remove the info button (deleted it from library), but have found that once I've done this, the bar then displays with a long strip of the black background to the right of it, like this

<__[Rewind]_[Pause]_[Mute] ___________________________________ >

which covers my controls and prevents them from working.

Is there a way to get rid of the info button without the playbar doing this?
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    Correct answer jbradley88
    Maybe try leaving the Info button in the FLA but making it 1pixel wide with no border?

    If that doesn't work, you should stop by Paul Dewhurst's RaisingAimee website. For those who provide a donation, he has a section on his site with all his modified playbars available for download:

    http://www.raisingaimee.co.uk/index.php?option=com_docman&task=cat_view&gid=28&Itemid=36

    Regards,
    John

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    jbradley88Correct answer
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    November 5, 2008
    Maybe try leaving the Info button in the FLA but making it 1pixel wide with no border?

    If that doesn't work, you should stop by Paul Dewhurst's RaisingAimee website. For those who provide a donation, he has a section on his site with all his modified playbars available for download:

    http://www.raisingaimee.co.uk/index.php?option=com_docman&task=cat_view&gid=28&Itemid=36

    Regards,
    John
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    Anonymous
    November 6, 2008
    Thanks John
    I set the movie clip to 1 pixel as you advised, with the colour set to Alpha 0% and that did the trick.

    This left just the problem of the tooltip, which was a bit tricky-as all the small buttons share the same movieclip for showing tooltips (pbcButton), so removing the revelant script from the info one also took out the rewind and mute tips. To get round this, I copied the info button to a new flash file where I altered pbcButton and gave it a new name.
    I then copied the new version back into the playbar file.

    So now the info button is invisible, produces no tool tip and does nothing when clicked (deleted onClicked script), the only sign it's still there is the mouse pointer changing to a hand should users hover over the exact pixel-which is too small an issue to bother with.
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    Anonymous
    December 13, 2008
    Here's a step-by-step procedure to completely eliminate the Info button in Captivate 3. Though the Aluminum playbar is used as an example, this works for all playbars.

    1. Copy C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Captivate 3\Templates\PlaybackFLA\Aluminum.fla.
    2. Paste it in folder C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Captivate 3\Gallery\PlaybackControls\SwfBars.
    3. Open C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Captivate 3\Gallery\PlaybackControls\SwfBars\Aluminum.fla in Flash.
    4. In the Actions layer of Scene 1, select Frame 1 and press F9 to open the Actions window.
    5. Insert this code at the top (or bottom):

    pbcBar_mc.pbcInfo_mc.onRelease = null;
    pbcBar_mc.pbcInfo_mc.useHandCursor = false;
    pbcBar_mc.pbcInfo_mc._width = 1;
    pbcBar_mc.pbcInfo_mc._alpha = 0;

    6. Press Ctrl+F12 to generate the Aluminum.swf file.
    7. Press Ctrl+S to save the .fla file.
    8. Exit Flash.
    9. Open your Captivate 3 project.
    10. Select Project > Skin.
    11. Select the Aluminum playbar.
    12. Click OK.
    13. Press F12 to preview your project in the browser.
    14. Notice that the Info button has now been completely eliminated.
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