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jjohnsonace
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July 26, 2012
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popup with clickable controls

  • July 26, 2012
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Hi,

I would like to do the following:

1. Put a button on a slide. When clicked, it displays a popup.

2. The popup has a Close button. When clicked, it closes the popup. The popup does not close unless the Close button is clicked.

Is this possible?

Thanks,

Joe

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Correct answer Lilybiri

OK.  I see what you mean.  Yes using Display for rest of Project would also work and mean you just had one object.  But it also might mean that it would get in the road on certain types of slides (e.g. question slides or simulations).

Since this is a Static widget, you could also just add it to the relevant Master Slides and set it to be on top of all other objects?


Hi Rod,

Sorry, but the user is still on CP4, no master slides if I remember well.

Lieve

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Lilybiri
Lilybiri
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July 26, 2012

Which version do you use, please? And I suppose rollover caption is not an option, because it is a lot easier.

Can be done:

  • create the popup (is what?), add the close button in the wanted place and hide everything in the Properties panel
  • for the close button you create a first standard advanced action that does close all what is in the popup (if there is only one object, could be done by a simple action, but then the playhead will move on)  AND the close button as well
  • create the button on the slide and make it trigger another advanced standard action that shows the popup objects and the close button

Have a look at this video where I explain the difference between a simple and a standard action:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3nKi-DB6Fw&feature=plcp

Lilybiri

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jjohnsonaceAuthor
Known Participant
July 26, 2012

Hi Lilybiri,

I am using Captivate 4.

I want to be able to give the user a navigation feature that lets them jump to any slide. I am not great in Captivate, but I know how to make one button that goes to a slide, but in this case, I want to have about 10 buttons that go to slides. And...I want a "Nav" button that opens the 10 button set.

So...I want to somehow "group" those ten buttons into an object that I can show or hide.

Your question "create the popup (is what?)" gets at the the heart of my problem. I know how to create rollovers, but my customer does not want a rollover...he wants the visibility of the object to be controled by a click...not a rollover motion. So, if I can't use the rollover slidelet object...what object can I use to hold ten buttons?

I tried to insert the GoToSlide.swf widget only to get an error message saying that I needed to install FlashPlayer 8. Well...I have FlashPlayer 11 so I would think that if 8 would work...then why not 11?

I am frustrated.

My slides already have a widget that I downlaoded from the internet. This Widget pauses the slide. This is good since my presentation does not actually "play". Rather...the user clicks thru it at her own pace. So I amespecially frustrated that I already have an operating widget, but cannot insert a standard widget for the GoToSlide.

I appreciate any insights you have on this,

thanks,

Joe

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jjohnsonaceAuthor
Known Participant
July 26, 2012

I found one answer to my complicated problem.

Adobe has addressed the conflict between Captivate 4 and Flash Player 11. The fix is basically a totally new Captivate EXE file. You download it and replace your existing EXE. Then the problem of not being able to insert widgets disappears.

So...now I have the GoToSlide widget working in my presentation.

My next question is How do i edit the widget so that it says something other than "Select Slide" as the default choice in the drop down?

Thanks,

joe

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