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June 1, 2015
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Adobe Captivate 7 - How can I create a Pop Up Window which I can use as an imprint, disclaimer or something else?

  • June 1, 2015
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Hello,

I have produced an e-Learning in Adobe Captivate 7, which consist of a vertical menue and a horizontal menue. The vertical menue on the left side of the screen is the table of content of the e-Learning. It consists of all the learning themes of the e-Learning.The horizontal menue is located on the upper side of the screen. This menue consists menue points like "imprint"and "disclaimer". They are textlinks / Hyperlinks. How can I reach, that it will open a Pop up window over the e-Learning after clicking of the menue point "imprint" or "disclaimer? The Pop up windows should have the same design as the e-Learning for itself.

Thank you for your answers!

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解決に役立った回答 Lilybiri

Hi Lieve, Hi Rod,

Here is my description of including the pop ups in my e-Learning:On each slide the same pop up should appears when the user is clicked on it. The pop ups should be closed by a cross like you know it from pop ups in the internet. The pop up should be opened in the foreground above the slide. The slide on which the user has clicked on the hyperlink to open the pop up ist still in the background. After clicking the cross of the pop up window the user Comes back to the slide.


This would be my approach:

  • Create all the objects for the popup on the first slide, group them (Gr_Popup) and time them for the rest of the project, Place Object on Top checked. Do not forget to include the X button, ,which should be a shape button because a normal button cannot be timed for the rest of the project. Since a shape is also a text container, this cannot be a problem.
  • Create an advanced action 'HideGroup' that you'll execute On Enter for each slide to Hide Gr_Popup, same advanced action can be used for the X button. You could create a shared action as well, with as only parameter the group. Depending on the setup of the slide, maybe it can be necessary to add the Continue statement for this action if used On Enter. No need for it for the X-button action.
  • Use another shape button for the 'to be clicked to show the popup' action. For this one you have the choice:
    • either on the main master slide (be sure to have master slide objects on top for the daughter master slides), since you don't need to control (Show/hide) this button by any action
    • or also on first slide and timed for rest of project
  • Create another advanced (or shared action) with statement 'Show Gr_Popup'

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RodWard
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June 1, 2015

Probably the easiest way to do this is by creating your 'popups' as rollover Shape objects placed on one of the first slides of your project and timed for REST OF PROJECT.  Then you set the rollover hit area of these objects to be positioned over the top of your hyperlinks so that rolling over the hyperlink will make the popup appear, but moving the mouse away will make it disappear again.  You can of course also use Advanced Actions and mouse clicks, but that's more complex and you don't sound to be an experienced Captivate user so far.

June 1, 2015

Thank you RodWard‌.

I have read that this will work with advanced actions but during my research in the Internet I didn't find some instructions. Can you nevertheless explain how to create this actions step by step? I prefer this solution instead of reoll over Actions...

Lilybiri
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June 1, 2015

Is it just being able to show the same popup on each slide when the menu item is clicked? How do you want it to disappear?  Do you allow the user to come back to the slide (maybe by navigation by TOC)? You will want to have the slide reset to its original setting I presume, which will need another advanced/shared action using the On Enter Slide event§. You have always to take into account every possible situation, before writing out the advanced (or shared action). On my blog you'll find a lot of examples of advanced/shared actions. But I will not upset Rod, he published a book about Advanced actions.

Shared actions are more limited in CP7 then in CP8, but this example (look at the movie) could offer you some inspiration:

Dare to Share - part 1 - Captivate blog