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Anonymous
November 19, 2010
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Clearing text boxes on review

  • November 19, 2010
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Good morning,

I am using CP5 and have an exercise where the users must enter text into text entry boxes.  I have the textboxes set up to not validate user input and to not retain text.  When the simulation completes, I have added a "review example" button that uses an advance action to jump back to the same slide.  What I have noticed is that the text in the first text in the text entry box remains.  However, if I jump back one earlier screen and completely re-enter the slide, the text disappears.  Is there a way to clear the text if you restart a slide?

Thanks,

Eric

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    Correct answer Lilybiri

    Sorry for my delay!  I had holiday-itis.  I have reposted and the link should work now!

    http://coventry.mzinga.com/content/ss/temp/WCMS_help.cptx

    Eric


    Hi Eric,

    Think I have a solution. I have read somewhere (but cannot explain) that the 'jump to...' can be jumping to the second frame of a slide instead of the first frame. And your first Text Entry Box is sitting on the first frame. This explains why I started to search by playing with the timing. This is what I did (I will use your ID's of the different objects on slide 2, would have been easier if you had labeled them - I'm a labeling freak, see blog post Some reasons for labeling...):

    • postponed Text_Entry_Box_6 to start at 0,1 sec (user will not see that), but because of the timing, had to repeat this for
    • Text_Entry_Box_7 to start 0,1sec later and
    • Text_Entry_Box_8 to start 0,1sec later and
    • Click_Box_68 to start 0,1sec later (if you want to be perfect, same timing for Text_Caption_326,  Text_Caption_156 and Image_194
    • Text _Caption_155 has to stay 0,1sec longer (because the user has to see it until pausing of Text_Entry_Box_8)

    Hope this makes sense, please label your objects next time

    Lilybiri

    PS: I checked it and it seems to work over here, try it out and let me know please?

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    Anonymous
    November 22, 2010

    Anyone?  Help!

    Lilybiri
    Lilybiri
    Legend
    November 22, 2010

    Hello,

    Can you check in the Advanced Interaction panel/view (Project menu) if there is a score attached to those Text Entry Boxes? If yes, it is considered to be part of a Quiz. And you have to get out of the Quiz scope (as you mentioned before that slide) to have the result of the attempt removed.

    Lilybiri

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    Anonymous
    November 22, 2010

    Lilybiri,

    Thanks.  I checked and none of those text entry boxes are inlcuded in the quiz.

    It appears that the only time the text is not being removed from the screen is when I used the replay button that I added at the end of the simulation.  The replay button is an advanced interaction with a "jump to" the same slide command.  However, if I use my back button and go back one screen and then enter the simulation, the text is cleared.  So, it seems that Captivate is not really restarting the whole slide by the advanced action.  I also tried to disable the text box on entry and move it's starting point .5 secoinds in.  However, it does not reactivate.

    So, I am having trouble finding a way to clear the text if I use a advanced action that tells captivate to replay said slide.

    Eric

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