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Stimpski
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March 3, 2015
Question

Text caption height in responsive project is not automatically resizing

  • March 3, 2015
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Hi all,

I have a Captivate 8 responsive project in which a text caption is not behaving properly. When I get down to smartphone-sized screens the width of the text caption reduces with the width of the device. But, the height of the text caption does not increase accordingly to fit the content. The text just gets cut off at the bottom.

I've tried the Auto height setting for the object size, but this scales the text down within the boundaries of the text caption. I would like to maintain the size of my text and have it grow down the screen the way plain text does in an HTML page.

I also do not want to set my text caption height to 100% because I would like to stack objects beneath the text caption.

Any help or advice is great appreciated.

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4 replies

stacyr7919679
stacyr7919679
Participant
June 28, 2016

Does anyone have an update or solution for this?  I am using Captivate 9 now and am still experiencing this issue. 

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jay fresno
Inspiring
November 22, 2015

I found Stimski's suggestion to turn on "Auto Size Captions" to be helpful, if I'm using text captions. However, most of the time I'm using Smart Shapes as text captions and that preference setting doesn't seem to change Smart Shapes that have text in them.

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_mcd
Participant
April 23, 2015

Hi

Did this ever get solved?
I'm interested in creating projects like Stimpski which are 'deep scrolling'.

Content which works the same way as that created by the Adapt eLearning framework ..

https://community.adaptlearning.org/pluginfile.php/808/mod_scorm/content/1/index.html

Is this even possible with Captivate 8 ?

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StimpskiAuthor
Known Participant
March 17, 2016

I still haven't solved this

barbara_a7746676
Community Expert
barbara_a7746676Community Expert
Community Expert
June 28, 2016

Have you tried setting up separate object styles for that break point. Each break point can have a different set of object styles. if all else fails you can always manually position.

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cntdmds
Participant
April 10, 2015

I also have the same problem. So far, I don't see how we could manage to use the Responsive project feature that Captivate offers. Nothing good comes out of it. Is it just me or what? Anyone as succeeded in creating something reliable?

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    StimpskiAuthor
    Known Participant
    April 12, 2015

    Hi cntdmds‌,

    There's a setting buried in Preferences > Defaults > Autosize Captions that changes all text captions in your file. This has enabled my responsive layouts to work better in Captivate.

    Re: creating something reliable: I'm in the midst of creating a large responsive e-learning course. It's been a really steep learning curve and a very frustrating one. I believe a reliable course can be created, but it's a hard journey. (My largest problem is my smart position markers don't stay at their assigned places, but I think I'm on track to solve it... perhaps.)

    Yet to see if this whole responsive Captivate adventure will be worthwhile. I hope Articulate adds a responsive capability to Storyline.

    Cheers.

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    cntdmds
    Participant
    April 13, 2015

    Thanks a lot Stimpski for your reply!

    I'll take a look at this option see if it works for me!

    Have a good day!

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