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Lisa31013337pg2c
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July 17, 2023
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Cp 12 All New Captivate: Using the HotSpot Widget

  • July 17, 2023
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Hello, Cp12 Community!

 

Has anyone experimneted yet with the HotSpot Widget? I cannot quite figure out what it is meant to do - it seems as though you choose the number of "HotSpots" to place on an image, and then when a user clicks or hovers on a HotSpot (which in the default setting looks like a littel bulls-eye target), something should happen. But as I am designing the slide, I find two problems and I wonder if they are bugs or if I am doing something incorrectly?

 

1) I can change the hotspot from a bulls-eye target shape into some generic icon from the Assets, but when I try to import anything from my computer to use as a HotSpot shape, nothing is available to me. How do we know what type of file we are able to use so that we can customize the HotSpot shapes? Or do you think this is a bug?

 

2) I would think there needs to be an interaction that we define, for when the user hovers or clicks on the Hotspot buttons--but when I select the button in order to work with it, the "Interaction" editing pane is simply not availalbe to me. It is greyed out and only the "Visual Properties" editing pane is available to me. Do you think this is a bug? Or am I missing something?

 

Many thanks for your input. I would like to hear others' opinions before I submit a bug report. I have indeed found legit bugs on some of the widgets that the engineering team has appreciated, but since I am still a very new user, I want to make sure that I am not just being silly... 😉 Thank you!

 

-Lisa

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    Lilybiri
    Lilybiri
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    July 17, 2023

    I wonder when the real CP12 experts will get here?

    Just one small tip: the icons category in the Assets are normall SVGs. Do you have SVGs on your system?

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    Lisa31013337pg2cAuthor
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    July 18, 2023

    Lilybiri, good question! The more I think of it, the sillier it is for a software to be released without even a user manual!

     

    Thank you for the hint about SVGs. I have a Macbook Air and I have inDesign, and it won't export an SVG. I also tried exporting a PNG and PDF to see what the options were, and SVG is not one of them. Darn! Would I have to use Illustrator? I cringe because although I have access to the Adobe Suite, I don't know how to use Illustrator and my head is already exploding, trying to learn Cp12! 

    Lilybiri
    Lilybiri
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    July 18, 2023

    InDesign is a desktop publisher, it doesn't need that type of export. I have been teaching ID (as well as PS and many more apps).

    To export to SVG I use Illustrator indeed. In CP2019 you can edit in AI from within Captivate (roundtripping). It is not that hard if you start from an existing AI image, could explain that in another blog but your term 'deflated' is still active for me. I am even amazed that SVG is not very well treated in the 'all new...' because in my logical (engineer's) mind a responsive project better use only SVGs whenever possible. Play with some of my games on my blog and you'll understand.

    https://blog.lilybiri.com/find-the-differences-game

     

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