Captivate 9 Smart Shape Objects/Buttons

Report · Sep 20, 2017

Hi All,

I created a menu and used a shape as a button. I created action scripts to disable and enable these buttons. For example, the consecutive button would be disabled until the user viewed a slide, once the user returns to the menu then the consecutive button would be enabled. Everything worked as it should with the action scripts when previewing the project. However, after I published the project and uploaded to our LMS, the buttons would not work and only stayed disabled. I do not understand what changed if everything works fine when previewing a project Captivate and then after publishing the buttons would not work. Any ideas?

Thank you,

Report · Sep 20, 2017

Are you using Actionscript or is it the wrong term and you point to advanced actions? Those actions will be converted on runtime either to Actionscript (SWF output) or JavaScript (HTML5 output). Which output did you publish to?

When you tested in Preview, which preview method was used? Especially if you talk about a non-responsive project this is important. For such a project all preview methods except Preview HTML5 in Browser are Flash-based.

Report · Sep 20, 2017

Yes, Actionscript. I published as HTML5. I previewed in web browser and within Captivate as well which I believe is .swf. My workaround was to use click boxes instead. Any ideas? Sounds like if I publish as a .swf, I would not have this issue?

Report · Sep 20, 2017

Sorry, will leave you to an AS expert, because I always assumed that AS is the programming language for Flash output, not for HTML5 output where you would need JavaScript. Why do you prefer to use AS instead of advanced actions? Click boxes and buttons are both interactive objects, that have two events attributed to them.

As for Preview: F11 is Preview HTML5 in Browser and F12 is Preview in Browser. Which one did you use?