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Tom Connelly
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February 21, 2013
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Typing asterisk-protected password characters in software simulation.

  • February 21, 2013
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I'm doing a software simulation in Captivate 6, one portion of which involves typing a user ID, and then an asterisk-protected password.  The recording shows the user ID being typed character by character. However, the asterisks in the password field do not display character by character, but in a single shot. Meanwhile the audio outputs the typing for the password character by character.

Am I doing somethingwrong?

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    Tom ConnellyAuthor
    Participant
    February 22, 2013

    Vish,

    Thanks very much. Your reply was helpful.

    Tom

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    vishhere
    Participating Frequently
    February 22, 2013

    Hello Tom,

    This is done for the security reasons. Captivate captures every key stroke and there is a possibility to know the keys pressed if we do this. What you could do is to create a text animation involving the asterics and place it on the slide. Hope this helps.

    Thanks,

    Vish

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    MihailG
    Participating Frequently
    February 22, 2013

    Most of the time software simulation takes screenshots of the screen and when Captivate determines dynamic changes on the screen - starts to record video part. (that's pretty nice thing to reduce output video size)

    I don't really know, what the triggers to start video recording are (scrolling, typing or something like that), but it works not always properly. I had some troubles, while software simulation of Virtual Machine (Captivate didn't record dynamic actions in about 50% chance or even more). I think, it doesn't matter if it's asterisk field or not, but you always have the opportunity to re-record password typing part.

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    vishhere
    Participating Frequently
    February 22, 2013

    Hello Mihali,

    Which version of Captivate are you using? While capturing the simulations, captivate would switch to FMR (Full-Motion-Recording) mode while doing actions like drag-n-drop, draw, move the objects around, click and drag etc.

    If you are observing this behavior please let me know.

    Thanks,

    Vish

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    MihailG
    Participating Frequently
    February 22, 2013

    This was version 6.0. And speaking of typing sometimes it was recorded successfull (with video of typing process), sometimes like screenshots, sometimes not recorded at all (if i haven't click intentionally to force Captivate to make screenshot). I know, that captivate hardly can iterate with VM, but sure it can determine, when i'm typing something.

    Btw, i hardly can undrestand your excuses about security reasons. Noone asks captivate to remember keys, that are pressed. Why not just record the screen while typing?

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