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Mike_B_2008
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June 26, 2008
Question

Moving Position of Mouse

  • June 26, 2008
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I am relatively new to Captivate. I have a few movies that were recorded in Captivate. I have a few slides that show clicking the scroll bar along the right side of the screen. When I edit the slides and try to move the position of the mouse, I find that I cannot put it as far right as it had been when it was captured. As a result, the cursor looks like it is clicking the area just left of the scroll bar. I have found that if I change the mouse pointer, some are smaller and allow me to position further to the right, but I have a few places where that isn't far enough. Is there a way to move the position. It seems like Captivate has a fixed page boundary and nothing can extend off the edge of the page.
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webbo1968
Inspiring
June 30, 2008
Mike,

this is one of the frustrating things about Captivate, is that you cannot position the mouse freely, as it remembers the position of the mouse from the last area recorded.

A work around is to import a small mouse pointer as a separate image and copy the background of the slide with the problem and paste the background into a new blank slide. then import the mouse pointer image, although you will not see it move, but it will be whee you want it to be.

Just search mouse pointer in google images for a small .gif or .png. You could also flip the image to have it point to the right and not the left which would reach right to the right hand edge of the slide.

Lee
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Liquid_Andy
Known Participant
July 15, 2008
I agree with Lee. It's painful. One other way is when you realise you've got a mouse pointer on the scroll bar on the right and want to edit it, copy the mouse object first. If you want to pop it back to where it was hide the original and then paste the old mouse back in - should go exactly where you want it.

Just tried it to prove I wasn't talking through my hat and discovered a strangeness. You can copy the mouse from the timeline (using Ctrl-C) and then hide it. When you come to paste it back though (Ctrl-V) it pastes back the entire slide as a new slide.

For what it's worth try it out but make sure you save your work first.
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