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DavidLHayden
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February 5, 2016
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Mouse start point for slide in wrong location, can't be moved?

  • February 5, 2016
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Hi everyone,

   I'm getting back into Captivate after a while away and I thought it was possible to move the starting point of a mouse but can't seem to do it.

   I'm using Captivate 7. The slide sequence is moving over to the scrollbar, scrolling down, then moving back to the left to click on a link. For whatever reason on that third slide, the mouse trail starts back up in the upper left corner. I suppose it is possible there was an extraneous slide in-between the scroll and the problem slide that I deleted that's causing the problem, I don't recall.

   If I move the 3rd slide above the scroll, I can use the "Align to Previous Slide" for it to start where it should, but I can't get it to stay there when I move back, and if I try that alignment after the scroll slide, it puts it in the same upper left corner.

   I poked around the Web and saw some mention of clearing a cache, so I did that, but it didn't help. I looked through forum posts and didn't seem anything that was helpful on this topic. 

  Any ideas or suggestions?

Thank you!

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    Correct answer Erik Lord

    Since the second (scroll) slide is animated (full motion), there's no actual mouse layer, right?

    So the third slide doesn't have a starting point.

    Try...

    'Show Mouse' on that second slide and place it at the end of the timeline with a super-short length, so it very quickly appears where the full-motion mouse ends-up.

    If that doesn't work well, take a still shot of the last frame of the motion slide and make it a new slide 3, 'Show Mouse' and the mouse should stick in the position you place it (i.e. overtop the place where the mouse ended on the previous motion slide).

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    Erik Lord
    Erik LordCorrect answer
    Inspiring
    February 5, 2016

    Since the second (scroll) slide is animated (full motion), there's no actual mouse layer, right?

    So the third slide doesn't have a starting point.

    Try...

    'Show Mouse' on that second slide and place it at the end of the timeline with a super-short length, so it very quickly appears where the full-motion mouse ends-up.

    If that doesn't work well, take a still shot of the last frame of the motion slide and make it a new slide 3, 'Show Mouse' and the mouse should stick in the position you place it (i.e. overtop the place where the mouse ended on the previous motion slide).

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    DavidLHaydenAuthor
    Participant
    February 5, 2016

    That actually led me to an even more brilliant solution than your answer!

    Because there wasn't a mouse, clicking on "Show Mouse" let me add a custom Mouse trail. Then I just unchecked Show Mouse so it wasn't visible, and the 3rd slide went to where the second slide ended up. It was just a question of syncing up the end of the 2nd slide mouse trail to where it ends in the animation.

    Thank you for your help!

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      DavidLHaydenAuthor
      Participant
      February 22, 2016

      I came up with a tweak on Erik's suggestion that actually helped out in a couple of situations. I just created a 1x1 pixel cursor, so even though it flashed for 1/10th of a second, it was virtually noticeable. Not sure if that is what he had in mind originally, but it made for a better user experience than the standard pointer popping up, however briefly.

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