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December 9, 2016
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Captivate 9, Is that possible to give scroll event on Scrolling Text widget

  • December 9, 2016
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Hi,

I am working on captivate creating courses. In the courses there are notes for user to read, I would like user must read those notes and I would like to make next button activate on scroll of "Scrolling text widget". So is there any event available in captivate?

Please let me know if you have any hint

Thanks for taking time

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Lilybiri
Lilybiri
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December 9, 2016

Scrolling text is a static widget, which means that it has no 'events' like is the case for interactive objects. Moreover scrolling itself is natively not an event in Captivate. You can find a list with all events in this blog post:

Events and (advanced) Actions - Captivate blog

There are some exteral widgets (by InfoSemantics) that allow to create extra events, but I doubt very much that scrolling in another widget will be a possibility. Since I'm not a JS expert at all, have no idea if this would be possible with JavaScript.

RodWard
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RodWardCommunity Expert
Community Expert
December 9, 2016

It wouldn't be an easy thing to do.

In any case, the use case revolves around the concept that Instructional Design is somehow assisted by removing navigation options and thereby forcing learners to look at information whether they wanted to or not.  To me this is a flawed concept.

If the content buried in this scrolling text field is interesting they will readily look at it.  If the information is somehow essential make the reasons obvious.  Then you can leave the navigation buttons in place where they are and the learners can have the freedom to navigate as they choose.

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