Convert Interactive Training Simulations into Demostration

sazzam, I apologize. The "he, she, or it" comment was a joke and not a very sensitive one. Please pardon the very bad humor.

My comment about including your email in the body of a post was to protect you from malware which reads the text of documents looking for email addresses - just a warning, and I certainly wasn't mad or upset at you, just worried that someone else might do you harm.

Have a great day!
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I know your'e not mad at me DilbertG. It was never a real concern ... just my less-than-completely-understood sense of humor.

Keep the rubber below the glass and remember to accelerate into the curves.
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Thanks Larry. No we are not mad at you or anyone for that matter. All of us are trying to solve each others problems. And yes you are right, sometimes we try to find such shortcuts which are fast, and easy but may not be right. A bad habit, and good you pointed it out to all of us. Thanks for that.

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HI Guys,
Regards Rick's comment - so did I. Use the "Apply to All", that is. And as I said (as Rick said), it doesn't work - or at least not reliably enough to say this is the "fix" you are looking for.

Regards this entire thread, I have a problem with all of your varying suggestions (naturally). You are all correct, and you are all incorrect. There is no single way to handle the problem presented by " sazzam", because he or she (it?) didn't give us enough information to establish one-single-correct-way to handle this.

BTW, sazzam, we don't do personal email - sorry, but that would defeat the entire purpose of these forums ... the sharing of problems, solutions, and ideas. So you will have to reconcile yourself to coming back for the answers. Also, sazzam, it is considered bad policy (security-wise) to insert your email address in the body of your post - the spiders are already forwarding it to their malware masters.

Here's why everyone is wrong: What needs to be done depends largely on factors that were not made available to us. For instance, if, as some folks do when inserting click-boxes or buttons, the object and slide times are set to very very short periods (a trick so the developer can use the "Continue" action without the user waiting until Sunday for movement to the next slide) ... then simply changing attributes on the buttons or click-boxes won't work - the movie would progress so rapidly without the "pause" enabled that it would become functionally useless. There are other things we would need to know to offer a single "right" (or a "fastest") solution - but that should give you an idea of what's wrong with offering a cookie-cutter solution, as you all have. Yeah, I know, once again I've made everyone mad - but at least if you are mad at me, you are not upset with each other.

Thanks - and have a great day folks!!
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Hi Rick,
You dont need to edit each and every click box, because Apply All will come to our rescue for that. Also yes the Report to quiz should also be De-selected, but that should hardly matter, because in demo you will not have result slide or question slide.

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I find deleting every interactive object a tedious job, specially if you quite a lot of them. I will probably do following to reduce my effort.

1. Click boxes --- De-select hint, failure and success captions.
De-Select pause project untill user clicks.
De-select pause for succes/failrue caption
Apply-all.
2. Buttons --- De-select hint, failure and success captions.
De-select pause-after option
De-select pause for succes/failrue caption
Select transparent-buttons
Make transparency to 100%
Make frame border to 0
Apply-all.

3. Text Entry boxes ---- Unfortunately these needs to be deleted, because it always pauses the movie.

4. Mouse ---- Captivate remembers the mouse movements you did while capturing, even though it does not show it when you have assessment or training mode on.
So just selecting the Show mouse for slides will show the mouse with actual movements, unless you have altered the slides manually.

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Simply delete the interactions....Clickboxes to be excact.

Or.....record a Captivate movie of your simulation.

A more easy solution will be in properties of click boxes, select the option, dont wait for user response. :)

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The easy way is to go onto every slide and delete all clickboxes and anyhting else that provides feedback.