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Eilmer
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January 17, 2010
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Captivate 4: Delay in objects appearing

  • January 17, 2010
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I have some image objects I've imported to my library and placed on slides, with options set to appear after 0.0 seconds, with no transition. However, when I run the project (as a preview or a published SWF) there is a delay of about 1 or 2 tenths of a second before the objects appear on the slide. The objects are PNG and GIF images. I tried BMP and JPG images, just to see if that made a difference, but it didn't.

This problem didn't happen in Captivate 3. Is there a setting I've missed, or something else I'm doing wrong?

-Stuart

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    Correct answer Lilybiri

    Hello Stuart,

    This seems to resolve your issue in the example: the success action on the buttons in slide 1 and slide 2 are set to 'Continue', if you change it to 'Go to next slide' the blink seems to disappear. This is consistent with the actions on success for the other slides on the click boxes, where the issue is not there. Do not ask me to explain why, but seems to work.

    Hope this is also the case for you?

    Lilybiri

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    Lilybiri
    Lilybiri
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    January 17, 2010

    Hello,

    You do not have any slide transitions either? Do you see this while previewing (in Browser or not) or/and after publishing? Eventually: could you post a small example? Never really saw this problem in my projects, but there has been reporting about it in this forum.

    Are those objects manipulated on the slide (advanced actions, hiding/showing)? If not, merging them into the background will certainly solve the issue. But that is only a workaround.

    Lilybiri

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    EilmerAuthor
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    January 17, 2010

    Thanks for the response. To answer your questions: 1. No slide transition. 2. I see the problem in preview and after publishing. 3. Those objects aren't manipulated; in many cases they're there to modify the background. Merging them into the background is an option, but the background changes over the course of the project. If I have an object that's placed on the background, in some cases I can set it to last until the end of the project. If I merge, I'd have to merge it on each variation of the background.

    I'm attaching a sample. I can't show you the actual files I'm working with, because they are proprietary software screens for a client, so I've created an example. In the middle of the spreadsheet, the capture says "Welcome, Bill." I made a PNG file that says "Welcome, Sue," and I placed it over the original text, on each slide. The duration is "rest of slide," and it has no transition.I also mask the first two slides with a semi-transparent GIF file. It fades up up on the first slide. On the second slides it has the same duration and transition settings as the PNG file.

    Going from slide 1 to slide 2, both the PNG and GIF display a moment after the slide does. The PNG has that same delay going into slide 3. The odd thing is that it behaves correctly going into slides 4 and 5. I can't figure out why. This is my first project with Captivate 4. I did this kind of project a lot with Captivate 3. You say there has been reporting about this kind of thing in this forum?

    Thanks,

    -Stuart

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