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Marinamatic
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July 10, 2015
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Captivate more text to appear on one slide separate

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I am using latest Captivate 8 on win 7 and 8 bit 64 and 32.

I need to create a demo of captivate program and for that I used 2 blank slides and input text captions, 4 sentences and one object at beginning and quiz on the end with one of each question example. I want that text captions on beginning to appear on screen one after another with 2 seconds delay and that if user wants can speed up the text appearing by clicking anywhere on slide. On timeline I shifted the text captions as I want but when I click preview or publish project it only shoes title that is set to start with slide time delay 0 sec and only goes on next text caption if button PLAY is clicked, but I am hiding the playbar in final product. If the person clicks next it just goes on next slide, without showing the text captions on first slide.

When I click preview slide it works and shows as I want but when I click preview project that one slide stops at title and clicking next goes on next slide.

I want that text appears one caption per time, with delay. I want that user can speed up the text captions and objects by clicking anywhere on the slide,  I want that user sees NEXT slide button only after all the animations and text captions are shown ( I understand this will require advance action formatting).

In drag and drop option is it possible to object to return to original position if person drag them incorrectly to "reset slide"?

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Correct answer Lilybiri

You cannot combine your two requests: clicking on the slide would mean a click box covering up the whole slide, but you'll lose the functionality of the other shape buttons since they are below the click boxes. There you'll have to look for another way.

As for the shape buttons, at this moment they all pause at the default time of 1.5secs. You have to delay that pause at least until the last text caption has appeared. If you don't add audio (don't see any at this moment), have the pausing after the beginning of the third caption, and you don't have to make that slide duration that long since the slide will pause until the user clicks any of the buttons.

Speeding up cannot be done with a click box over the whole slide, tell me an alternative with a smaller interactive object. You could use micro-navigation, but from your questions I conclude that you don't have much experience with Captivate, micro-navigation is perhaps too complicated.

Micro-Navigation in Adobe Captivate - Captivate blog

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Lilybiri
Lilybiri
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July 10, 2015

About your first question, because this is a double question: can you please post a screenshot of the timeline of that slide? I suspect you have one or more interactive objects with pause(s). Speeding up is not done like with a movie control panel in Captivate.

D&D question: If you limit Accept to the correct drag sources, you can indicate to have the incorrect drag sources getting back to their position. Is that what you want?

Drag&Drop tips - Captivate blog

That link will get you to a blog post I created with tips for D&D

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MarinamaticAuthor
Participating Frequently
July 10, 2015

i have 5 buttons on each slide. ? leads to instruction slide, book leads to menu for each subject, arrows back and next and door is exit. I have titele and three text cations i need to appear one after another alone or by user clicking on slide to speed them up.

Lilybiri
LilybiriCorrect answer
Legend
July 10, 2015

You cannot combine your two requests: clicking on the slide would mean a click box covering up the whole slide, but you'll lose the functionality of the other shape buttons since they are below the click boxes. There you'll have to look for another way.

As for the shape buttons, at this moment they all pause at the default time of 1.5secs. You have to delay that pause at least until the last text caption has appeared. If you don't add audio (don't see any at this moment), have the pausing after the beginning of the third caption, and you don't have to make that slide duration that long since the slide will pause until the user clicks any of the buttons.

Speeding up cannot be done with a click box over the whole slide, tell me an alternative with a smaller interactive object. You could use micro-navigation, but from your questions I conclude that you don't have much experience with Captivate, micro-navigation is perhaps too complicated.

Micro-Navigation in Adobe Captivate - Captivate blog

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