Cap8: Can you get mouse coordinates of where user clicked during viewing?

[Jefferbob]

Can you get mouse coordinates of where user clicked during viewing?

SWF creation in Captivate 8

Thanks!

[Lilybiri]

Certainly not out of the box with Captivate.

[Jefferbob]

I didn't think it'd be that easy, but what about something "outside the box?"

[BDuckWorks]

Even if you were able to capture the precise coordinates on one screen where a user clicked, any other user on any other device would return different coordinates.

Are you in a limited & controlled environment where everyone will use the same size device, with the same version of the os, and the same browser?

Captivate uses an object oriented, event driven approach, where interacting with an object (regardless of the coordinates it may be at for each user) will generate an Action. Captivate provides a tool set for generating objects: Buttons, Captions, Slides, Quizzes, etc. and having them respond to Events: 'success, failure, or continue' with Actions: 'go to the next slide,' ' return to quiz,' or 'jump to slide.'

Trying to track each mouse click and click location of the users will be overwhelming in a short amount of time. Can you share how you want to use this information?

[Jefferbob]

Thanks for the response. This will probably be helpful for people just getting started with using Adv Actions and interactive objects in Captivate. I've been using Cap since v3, and have around 20 years of OOP development experience. I'm looking at more of a multidimensional array of objects that will all respond to the same proc without creating 200 individual click boxes. Getting the mouse coords is the only piece I'm missing.