Question
highlight boxes and layer order bug in v2
Hi all
As I told my coworker today, Capivate 2.0 isn't quite leaps-and-bounds better than Captivate 1.0, but it is still a significant improvement in terms of workflow. However, over the last week I've encountered several bugs that are... well... bugging me.
The most perplexing issue is highlight boxes and layer order.
I created a simple slide containing a background, one caption, and a highlight box (reversed to gray out rest of screen). I moved the caption layer on top of the highlight box layer so it stays readable. I previewed my movie and saw the highlight box on top of the caption! What?! I double-checked the layers and saw it was set up correctly... caption on top of highlight on top of background. I locked the layers and previewed again... no dice. I saved the file and quit Captivate. When I reopened Captivate, I was suprised to see that my highlight box layer had been moved to the top position, and the caption had been moved underneath the highlight box! BUT... what's stranger is that the layers were both still locked! (Remember, I had locked them when they were in the proper layer order). So Captivate saved some changes (layer locking, minor text edits) but not the layer order. Weeeeeeeird, and highly annoying.
This is happening on multiple slides in the project (ALL highlight boxes get moved above the captions, probably about 9 boxes on about 6 slides). It doesn't happen consistently in every Captivate project, only sometimes.
If you need a visual, my layer order shoud look like this:
3: Caption (layer is locked)
2: Highlight box (layer is locked)
1: Slide background
It keeps getting rearranged to
2: Highlight box (still shows layer as locked, but wrong stacking order)
3: Caption (still shows layer as locked, but wrong stacking order)
1: Slide background
Also, I noticed that F11 and F12 don't work reliably as keyboard shortcuts in a demo. They conflict with IE's built-in "F" commands. F11 will maximize the browser window, not control Captivate. I can't find any workaround, whether using Javascript, Actionscript, or anything other than some serious Microsoft hacking. It works (most of the time) in Firefox.
Anyone else encounter and solve these issues?
Otherwise, I'm enjoying C2 (even though they still have that weird robo demo logo [rd], which makes no sense branding-wise...)
- philip
PS - I'm using both Win2K and WinXP systems (work PC is Win2K, home PC is WinXP) with the latest Captivate 2 trial download (our purchasing dept has submitted the paperwork...)
As I told my coworker today, Capivate 2.0 isn't quite leaps-and-bounds better than Captivate 1.0, but it is still a significant improvement in terms of workflow. However, over the last week I've encountered several bugs that are... well... bugging me.
The most perplexing issue is highlight boxes and layer order.
I created a simple slide containing a background, one caption, and a highlight box (reversed to gray out rest of screen). I moved the caption layer on top of the highlight box layer so it stays readable. I previewed my movie and saw the highlight box on top of the caption! What?! I double-checked the layers and saw it was set up correctly... caption on top of highlight on top of background. I locked the layers and previewed again... no dice. I saved the file and quit Captivate. When I reopened Captivate, I was suprised to see that my highlight box layer had been moved to the top position, and the caption had been moved underneath the highlight box! BUT... what's stranger is that the layers were both still locked! (Remember, I had locked them when they were in the proper layer order). So Captivate saved some changes (layer locking, minor text edits) but not the layer order. Weeeeeeeird, and highly annoying.
This is happening on multiple slides in the project (ALL highlight boxes get moved above the captions, probably about 9 boxes on about 6 slides). It doesn't happen consistently in every Captivate project, only sometimes.
If you need a visual, my layer order shoud look like this:
3: Caption (layer is locked)
2: Highlight box (layer is locked)
1: Slide background
It keeps getting rearranged to
2: Highlight box (still shows layer as locked, but wrong stacking order)
3: Caption (still shows layer as locked, but wrong stacking order)
1: Slide background
Also, I noticed that F11 and F12 don't work reliably as keyboard shortcuts in a demo. They conflict with IE's built-in "F" commands. F11 will maximize the browser window, not control Captivate. I can't find any workaround, whether using Javascript, Actionscript, or anything other than some serious Microsoft hacking. It works (most of the time) in Firefox.
Anyone else encounter and solve these issues?
Otherwise, I'm enjoying C2 (even though they still have that weird robo demo logo [rd], which makes no sense branding-wise...)
- philip
PS - I'm using both Win2K and WinXP systems (work PC is Win2K, home PC is WinXP) with the latest Captivate 2 trial download (our purchasing dept has submitted the paperwork...)
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