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Yuri_Peixoto
Yuri_Peixoto
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May 5, 2009
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Hide the mouse in some slides.

  • May 5, 2009
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Hello, folks!

Here I am, again, with news about my trip with Captivate options. First of all, my chief agreed that the best way is to left the 'lesson' only with demonstrations of drawing, and after the lesson, put the student to practice with the software.

For the ones that don´t understand what I´m talking about, read this.

Now, I finished (well, editing/retouching phase) my first lesson, and have some issues to correct:

  • I recorded some assessment slides, to put the student to click in some options in the screen, and the mouse is appearing in all the time. There is some way to really hide the mouse, in the presentation? I don´t want that the mouse appear when the student is the one that have to click in some box, or type something... I just want that the mouse appear in the moments when I´m showing something in the screen... This is possible?
  • In some slides, my text caption boxes are 'fading" (become very opaque at the end of the timeline), while waits for the student to click in the clickbox? I don´t know what exactly is happening...

Well, for now, is this. I will come with more, when I go to finish the lesson.

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Correct answer Lilybiri

Well, this so was my problem! I don´t use the same width-height ratio, when I do the rescaling, and I 'unmark' the 'Mantain aspect ratio" button.

So, if I understand correctly, I can make my screen captures using a bigger resolution that use the same aspect ration that my students, like 1024x768, or 1240x1024, and rescale afterwards, to avoid the scroll bars problem? Hmmmm....

I´m falling in love with this program.


Indeed, please keep this button 'Maintain Aspect Ratio' activated.

Captivate is indeed wonderful software for e-learning. If you ever tried to achieve a training in Flash, similar to what you can achieve in CP (as I did a long time ago...) you have to fall in love with this program. I hope to have been of some help.

Lilybiri

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Yuri_Peixoto
Yuri_PeixotoAuthor
Known Participant
May 5, 2009

Well, forget that pair of doubts!

Some moments of navigation in the menus (and in searh sites) give me the answer of what I have done wrong: the text caption boxes are with "fade in and fade out' effect, and I found the menu option to hidden the mouse.

And some more doubts appear!!!

I want to generate a full screen (without title bar) lesson, to give the student a more vivid feeling of interaction. Well, I put the output option full screen, and the title bar really disappear... but.. there playback controls (that are stretched at the bottom of the screen) are not appearing... there is a way to corret this?

There is a way to hide the playback controls in some slides?

And, my last, at the moment: the logo of our enterprise is a .wmf with a transparent background! Well, in the edition, it appear really transparent, but if I publish my project, a white square appears, enveloping my logo?

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

Lilybiri
Lilybiri
Legend
May 7, 2009

I'm not able to answer all you questions. Hiding the playbar can be done by using the system variable cpCmndShowPlaybar. Create an action to assign the value=0 when entering the slide where you want to hide the playbar. Changing the value to 1 will bring back the playbar.

You can hide the playbar for the whole of the project if you create your own buttons on slides where you want the user to advance to another slide by clicking the button.

If there is an object 'mouse' on the timeline, you can delete it just as any other object.

For images I mostly convert them to PNG24 (even the vectorbased ones) because this format seems to give the best results.

Perhaps these ideas can help you?

RoboWizard
RoboWizard
Inspiring
May 7, 2009

Hi there

Just one clarification on something Lilybiri said

Lilybiri wrote:

...If there is an object 'mouse' on the timeline, you can delete it just as any other object....


Mouse movement is simply an attribute of each slide. You togge it off or on. So even though you are deleting it from the Timeline, you are really just turning it off for that slide. You may just as easily turn it back on. It's a non-destructive action.

Cheers... Rick

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