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Variable names display problem

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December 4, 2009
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I have three transparent text captions that are set to display from slide 1 through to slide 32 (using the option "display for rest of project").

The variables I am displaying are:

In the header:

$$cpInfoProjectName$$ - displays the name of the lesson module.

$$cpInfoCurrentSlideLabel$$ - displays the name of the current slide.

And in the footer:

Page $$cpInfoCurrentSlide$$ of $$rdinfoSlideCount$$ - displays the current slide number and the total number of slides in the lesson.

The problem is that the variable names display long enough to look somewhat unslightly. It might be for about 1/3 of a second but it is long enough to screen capture (attached just in case I am not clear enough in my description) this appearance before they resolve into their values.

This is rather annoying, since a student will see this occur for every slide.

Is there anything that can be done to fix this? Perhaps using a text caption is not the best way to display these variables?

Hmm... I wonder if creating a small persistant flash insert would be better?

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Russ_E

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Shawn,

I had the exact same issue with my page numbering showing the variable names briefly before updating.

Tried a couple ways to get around it but this is what has worked best for me.

Create a rectangle with captivate's new drawing feature. Make it the same as your page background color and place it as the top layer to hide your text caption. Now just have it fade out at the beginning of the slide to give Cp enough time to catch up and fill in the values.

This effectively hides any ugly variable names and also gives the illusion that you are doing a fancy "fade-in" of your page numbers or whatever you are showing. Quick, easy, light-weight and does the job.

Hope that helps.

Russ

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Hi Russ

I've recommended the same approach.

Weird how the behavior is different and you don't see the brief flash if you use AS3 though.

Cheers... Rick

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I had the same issue. During an eLearning Guild webinar was told to change the publish settings in Preferences to AS3, and the "variable flash" went away. Not sure if you can publish to AS3, but thought I would mention as this is a really quick solution.

W

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I have seen that aswell Shawn. It seems like the variables are a bit slow to be populated with the correct value and then it will show the $$variable_name$$.

A Flash component would solve it and it won't take more than 5 minutes to make them all.

/Michael

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Lilybiri

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Hi Shawn,

Never have seen this myself, but tried to reproduce your issue. I only see that the value changes when entering a slide, but cannot see the name of the variable. I include my (small) test, knowing that my eyes are perhaps too tired and not of the best quality. Can you see the variables in this test? Just a small question: what is the frame setting of your CP-file. This was made with the default setting of 30fps. I kept everything default, even the Anti-alias transparent captions is activated (normally I deactivate this).

Lilybiri

TestVarCaptions.zip

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