Running a tool natively inside Captivate

Thanks for the advice folks. I realized that this was a higher end issue...my thoughts are that we would somehow have to integrate a scoring tool inside of our software in a future build (like maybe 10 versions down the road somewhere)...until then Captivate it is!

> No, I don't believe so. The person whose actions you are trying to capture
> would need to have Captivate installed & choose to record what they where
> doing.

Plus there's no embedding feature like OLE, ActiveX or DLL that would enable
you to put the application into Captivate either.

If you really need this, you should consider a couple of other things, but
both would be considered 'high tech' solutions compared to Captivate.

Director has screen capture abilities, either natively, or through
third-party plugins. But this would be screen-shots, not screen recording.
It is possible to also embed documents (Word, Visio etc) using ActiveX or
other methods. With director you can 'watch' what the user does with the
mouse and you should be able to detect any input.

However, like I said, this would not be easy.

Easier to do, but still requiring effort, would be to use Flash or Director
to emulate or simulate the features you want the user to attempt to use.
Captivate can do much of this, but I'm picturing that you've already found
some limitations that you were hoping to conquer.

HTH

Steve


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No, I don't believe so. The person whose actions you are trying to capture would need to have Captivate installed & choose to record what they where doing.