Drag and Drop Functionality

[Jeff Alu]

I'm trying to achieve a very specific type of drag and drop functionality as follows:  No Submit buttons, or buttons of any kind.  The user drags and if the answer is wrong, the dragable piece immediately returns to its starting position.  If correct, it sticks.  Is this possible?  I'm using captivate 9.

Thanks,

Jeff

[Lilybiri · Accepted solution]

Pretty simple. Drag the Submit button off the stage. You can also select Auto Submit (not really necessary).

Select each Drop target, open the Object actions on the Format tab. Uncheck 'Accept All' and indicate only the correct drag sources. This has to be done for every Drop target.

[Jeff Alu]

Thanks Lilybiri, this works great.  I really need to do the Lynda.com tutorial on Drag and Drop.

One problem, the audio that I had cued up on success when clicking the original submit button no longer plays when all three drag and drops are correct.

Jeff

[Lilybiri]

Did you check Auto Submit?

[Jeff Alu]

Yes, Auto Submit Correct Answers is checked.

[Lilybiri]

What do you exactly mean by "the audio that I had cued up on success when clicking the original submit button no longer plays"? Did you create an action for the Success event? How is that action looking?

[Jeff Alu]

Hi Lilybiri, what I mean is that I have an "On Success:" Play Audio set up.  For whatever reason, this audio is no longer playing once I have successfully dragged the three drag sources to their correct positions.  They lock into position just fine, but the audio doesn't play at that time.  The attached image shows my setup:

 

[Jeff Alu]

I figured out the reason why my audio wasn't playing...I had "Type: Sequence" selected in the "Set Correct Answers" dialogue, which meant I had to drag and drop in a specific order.  I changed it to "Combination" and now it works fine...

Thanks,

Jeff

[Lilybiri]

OK, sorry, was so busy... Another user had problems with understanding that Sequence vs Combination. You never got a correct answer for Sequence.

[Jeff Alu]

No apologies necessary!  You have been such a big help!

Actually I did get a correct answer, but only if I did them in the correct order.  So sometimes the audio would play.  But I couldn't figure out why it would only work some of the time.  I figured maybe it was some kind of timing error until I remembered the sequence thing. 

Jeff