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Anonymous
September 16, 2008
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COMBO KEY MADNESS

  • September 16, 2008
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I am putting together a CBT in which I am going back and forth between two applications. The problem is that to access the the second application, the user is required to hit a combo key of ALT + F1 in the first application. When I recorded the CBT, Captivate generated a click box for this action. Basically, the user can hit ALT + F1 or click inside the box to move the slide forward. I don't want the user to click. I want the user to use the combo key. Is there a way to turn off the click option? I hope that makes sense. Also, if a user has ALT + F1 set up for say a third application on their computer unrelated to the CBT, will the ALT + F1 open that application as they are doing my CBT? Thanks. Your help is greatly appreciated.
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    Correct answer Captiv8r
    Holy Toledo, Mary! (Sorry, couldn't resist)

    Anyhoo... I just tested this and it seemed to work. Edit your Click Box and click the "Click Box" tab. (It should be the one that opens by default, but just in case...)
    Click the Select keys... button.
    DE-select the "Allow mouse clicks" check box at the top of the dialog.
    Place a check mark in the "Alt" check box.
    Select F1 in the list of available keys.

    As for whether this will affect any other applications, I'm going to say "It depends". I assigned Alt+F1 as the shortcut to open Windows Notepad. Sure enough, Windows kept interpreting the key sequence and it never would advance the playback until I reset my shortcut for Notepad. I also tested RoboScreenCapture and configured Alt+F1 as the capture key. Again, RoboScreenCapture intercepted the key sequence when it was open. Once I closed it things were fine.

    Perhaps other apps will behave differently. This is just what I saw in my brief experiments.

    Cheers... Rick

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    Captiv8r
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    Legend
    September 18, 2008
    Holy Toledo, Mary! (Sorry, couldn't resist)

    Anyhoo... I just tested this and it seemed to work. Edit your Click Box and click the "Click Box" tab. (It should be the one that opens by default, but just in case...)
    Click the Select keys... button.
    DE-select the "Allow mouse clicks" check box at the top of the dialog.
    Place a check mark in the "Alt" check box.
    Select F1 in the list of available keys.

    As for whether this will affect any other applications, I'm going to say "It depends". I assigned Alt+F1 as the shortcut to open Windows Notepad. Sure enough, Windows kept interpreting the key sequence and it never would advance the playback until I reset my shortcut for Notepad. I also tested RoboScreenCapture and configured Alt+F1 as the capture key. Again, RoboScreenCapture intercepted the key sequence when it was open. Once I closed it things were fine.

    Perhaps other apps will behave differently. This is just what I saw in my brief experiments.

    Cheers... Rick
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    Anonymous
    September 23, 2008
    Thanks, Rick. I'll give it a try!
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