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jkulsick
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October 10, 2011
Question

Object grouping options other than slidelets?

  • October 10, 2011
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Hi all, new user here:

I've been using Captivate 5 for a few months and am running into an issue.  I have had success using the rollover slidelets to group various items together and use the slidelet timeline to arrange them as needed: usually this consists of a flash animation demonstrating the actions, simplified text captions outlining each step, and detailed audio narration to elaborate on the actions.

What I do not like here is that the user needs to keep hovering over the rollover box.  I dislike the "stick slidelet" fix because it stays there the entire time and it is possible to pause the flash video while the text captions and the audio continue on, fouling the whole thing up.

My questions are these:

- Is it possible to group or create a timeline for a specific group of objects outside of a rollover slidelet?

- Is it possible to trigger a slidelet to become visible and play through a standard button click as opposed to a rollover slidelet?

- Is it possible to time items as part of a conditional/dependent chain i.e. show the video, start the audio, display text caption #1, and then only show text caption #2 when the flash animation/audio reaches a certain point?  I know I can attach the narration directly to the flash animation but the user can still pause that while the text captions continue on.

Thank you in advance!

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Lilybiri
Lilybiri
Legend
October 10, 2011

Hello and welcome to the forum,

No Grouping for the moment in Captivate, but I wonder if you need grouping for what you are describing?

Isn't it all about timing? And do you need to have everything on the same slide, you could also navigate to a slide with a button or an advanced action.


Perhaps I'm misunderstanding your questions but your last item is clearly just about timing objects on the timeline, not? Why do you use rollover slidelets for that goal? You can give the objects that you want to group the same timeline, start at the same time and have the same duration. Why is that not an option?

If you want some objects to appear on a button click, make them invisible in the properties panel and create a standard advanced action, to be attached to the button, that will show all the objects.

I will be happy to help you, but then I have to know what exactly you want to achieve.

Lilybiri

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