Captivate 6 Scalable Html Content not Working with Widgets.

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July 24, 2012
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I am going to bring this topic up over and over again unti it gets fixed. The problem is not web browsers. The problem is Captivate and Widgets. No Captivate project will scale properly that contains a widget. I have tested this over the years on Connect Pro, Apache Web Server, Wamp, and more. I have tried hacking Captivate with Widgets that Contain a NO_Scale line in the them and more. The project won't scale at all or if I manage to get scaling the sides and bottoms of the projects are cut off and view all of the module is funky. There has got to be a working solution to this. I have way too may project with Widgets so removing them is not a option. I do not have a standard base to work from for monitor size so a working scale function is essential. Widgets are one of the things that sets Captivate apart from the competition and with out them I just as soon use another program.

I was really hoping the new Scale Function in Captivate 6 would have fixed this but it did not.

Sorry If I am not coming off as polite. This is problems that has annoyed me for years.

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Xeon64Author

Known Participant

It appears that adobe has fixed a lot of the Stock Widgets to where they won't prevent the browser from Scaling. This does not help people like me who used a lot of Widgets from Adobe Exchange. That one line of Code, NO_SCALE, just really messes things up when these older widgets are used.

RodWard

Community Expert

Actually, the problem is with the widgets and the way they are coded, not with Captivate.

When this problem was first identified some years ago now, reqponsible widget developers were quick to release updates that resolved the issue. You just needed to swap out the old widgets with updated ones that didn't cause the rescaling issue.

If you're using lots of widgets, especially older widgets that were not updated in code, then you'll continue to have this issue.

My suggestion is to make a list of all widgets you use, test each one on its own in a project containing no other widgets, to see if it prevents rescaling, and if it does, replace or ditch the widget entirely. If you can locate the original developer, find out if they have an updated version you can use. If they don't, or they don't feel inclined to fix it (because there's no incentive to do so) then ditch the widget and find another solution.

When they first came out in Cp4, everyone thought widgets would take the world by storm and be very profitable for their creators. Neither has proven to be true. They are certainly very useful additions to Captivate functionality, but I think you will find that a lot of the widgets developed early in their history now have nobody supporting them.

Xeon64Author

Known Participant

Thanks for the repsonse. I only have one main widget that I use now. It is a Widget that allows scrolling text in Captivate. It has the scaleing problem and I have been unsucessuful at finding a solution other that learning how to make my own widgets which I image would take months of practice. I have contacted the developer for this Widget and really did not get the results I was looking for. He fixed the scaling issue but the way the browser window scalled was messed up.

Can anyone recommend a Widget Developer In the USA that I can contract with to make a scroll text widget for me that allows the browser to scale?

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