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Joseph_McDonald
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May 1, 2014
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How can you make closed captioning appear after clicking a button?

  • May 1, 2014
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Currently, this is how one of my screens operates.  The narrator speaks then a video appears.  The user clicks play to watch the video.  At the end of the video a Continue button appears.  When the learner clicks the Continue button the narrator speaks again, and the course continues.

The challenge comes in when I am using closed captioning.  Since Captivate is kind enough not let us create closed captioning for anything other than slide audio, does anyone know a work around which would allow me to get closed captioning to appear when the user clicks the Continue button?

Thanks in advance for your help.

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Correct answer RodWard

Ahh...I think you're referring to object-level audio.  You've set the audio perhaps on the Success caption of the button, or set the button action to Play Audio perhaps?

CC text only displays for the Slide audio, not Object-level audio or audio triggered by advanced actions.

So if you want text to display on screen as a result of your button action then you'll need to achieve that by having the text appear in a caption that gets shown by an advanced action.  Alternatively, if your audio is attached to the ON Success caption of the button, just use that caption to display the audio text.

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Lilybiri
Lilybiri
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May 2, 2014

Is it existing CC? You can toggle the system variable cpCmndCC from its default value 0 to 1.

Because your continue button probably has already an action attached, you'll need a standard advanced action to add this Toggle statement. Don't forget that contrary to a simple action, an advanced action will not release the playhead, maybe you'll need to add 'Continue' as statement.

Lilybiri

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Joseph_McDonaldAuthor
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May 5, 2014

Hi Lilybiri,

  The way the screen starts the CC is already turned on.  The CC area stays up the whole time so turning it on is not the problem.  My issue is getting certain text in the CC area to show up when the Continue button is clicked.  Right now some audio plays when the Continue button is clicked, but I can't figure out how to get the text to display with it.  Does this problem make sense? 

Thanks for your help as always.

RodWard
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RodWardCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
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May 6, 2014

Ahh...I think you're referring to object-level audio.  You've set the audio perhaps on the Success caption of the button, or set the button action to Play Audio perhaps?

CC text only displays for the Slide audio, not Object-level audio or audio triggered by advanced actions.

So if you want text to display on screen as a result of your button action then you'll need to achieve that by having the text appear in a caption that gets shown by an advanced action.  Alternatively, if your audio is attached to the ON Success caption of the button, just use that caption to display the audio text.

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