In Captivate 7, how can I track which rollover captions are viewed on a particular slide?

Question

I have a slide with multiple rollover captions. I'm trying to figure out a way to track which captions are viewed so that when they have all been viewed, they can advance to the next slide for a quiz. I would also like to show a check mark next to the ones viewed so the user can see which ones are left. I'm not opposed to using check boxes instead of the rollover captions, but then I'd have to figure out a way to get the captions to appear when checked and then disappear. Is this possible?

Captiv8r · Accepted Answer

Could you elaborate on this part: trigger an action that could increment a variable.

Sure. The Slidelet has two parts. The rollover area (the trigger) and the slidelet area (what displays when the trigger is rolled over or clicked)

So you click to give focus to the rollover area and look at the properties panel. Specifically, the Actions area. There, you should see an ability to "Execute Advanced Actions".

So you would define an action that would increment a variable (to let you know the area was moused over) and also perform a show of an image of a check mark. (or whatever type of image you want to use to indicate it had been moused over)

You might look at the link below if you need some guidance on advanced actions

Click here to view

Cheers... Rick

Lilybiri · Answer

Rollover captions have no event, that could trigger such an action. It could be done with rollover slidelets, which have a rollover event that can trigger an action. However slidelets can be a bit tricky.

A check mark? In the caption? Could be done with a glyph, from a character set that has a check mark, if you can put it in a variable that you display in the caption. Start with an empty variable, change its value by the same action that counts the rollovers. Just checked quickly with Webdings, and seems to work.

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