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spritc
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February 7, 2008
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Fading a Text Caption with a Click

  • February 7, 2008
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Hiya

I am trying to insert a Text Caption that says 'Please click the Save button..'. I would like this to remain on the screen until the Save button is clicked.. And then when it is clicked, I would like the Text Caption to fade away along with the Success Caption.

Even though it is set to Display For: Rest of Slide, it seems that this fade out doesn't work if the click ends the slide. Is this a bug or an oversight, or am I being a gumby again?

Cheers,
spritc.
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spritcAuthor
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February 9, 2008
Hi Rick

Sorry for the confusion. I am not making a question slide as such, but my own quiz with a question using a text caption and the answer using a click box. And yes I have the click box on the Save button of my CAD package.

I also came to the same conclusion as you did about duplicating the slide. And it works, although I need it to jump to two slides depending on success or failure, but it works. I also have to force the slide to have no transition, which may or may not cause me problems later.

So, even though it's a bit of a mission to work around, it gets the job done. Thanks mate - appreciate your help!

Cheers,
spritc.
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spritcAuthor
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February 8, 2008
Back to your reply to the initial question Rick, lets say I am creating a quiz and am testing if they can find the Save button!

Anyway I would like each question to be limited to 30 seconds, so I have set my slide to 30 seconds long. But I don't want the slide to remain for the whole 30 seconds once they have clicked, so I am forced to use the 'go to next slide' option.

It seems crazy that I can't do something as simple as fade out the caption text when the slide ends (by a click). Doesn't it?

Cheers,
spritc.
Captiv8r
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February 8, 2008
Hi there spritc

I suppose a lot of things might seem to be simple and obvious. But sometimes what seems simple and obvious just aren't.

Your last post asked:
Back to your reply to the initial question Rick, lets say I am creating a quiz and am testing if they can find the Save button!

Fair enough. But initially you appeared to be talking about a normal slide. Now you are talking about a Quiz. And when you said you were creating a quiz, this makes me think you are now talking about a question slide. Question slides aren't like normal slides. For one thing, you cannot insert a Button object on a question slide.

Anyway I would like each question to be limited to 30 seconds, so I have set my slide to 30 seconds long. But I don't want the slide to remain for the whole 30 seconds once they have clicked, so I am forced to use the 'go to next slide' option.

Question slides have a feature whereby you may limit to 30 seconds for the user to respond. Again, based on what you wrote, it appears you are using a normal slide.

It seems crazy that I can't do something as simple as fade out the caption text when the slide ends (by a click). Doesn't it?

On the surface, again it sounds simple. But you have to consider what actions occur when that button has been clicked by the user. Here's the deal. The slide is playing, the caption appears (fades in) and you have timed your slide for 30 seconds before pausing. You apparently have a Click Box object over an image of the Save button. Or is it that you have inserted a Captivate Button object that reads Save? Either way, if the action of the Click Box or the Button has been configured to "Go to next slide", it does just that. Whoosh (or possibly BAM!) The next slide immediately appears. Because the next slide immediately appears, there quite simply isn't time for that Caption to fade out of view. It simply disappears.

Hmmm, in thinking about this I may have a way to do what you want. Here's maybe what you could try. Duplicate the slide in question. Remove all objects except the Text Caption and configure the timing for perhaps half a second. Maybe a smidge longer. Configure the Text Caption so it fades out only. So if the user clicks, they see this new slide for long enough to provide the fading out of the caption, then the former "next slide" would appear. It's a bit of a kludge, but might work.

Cheers... Rick
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mdeyerle
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February 7, 2008
Thanks for the help, Rick. I'll play around with it a little bit more, and if I come up with a solution I'll post it here!
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mdeyerle
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February 7, 2008
Wow, thank you for the quick reply.

Unfortunately, the additional first page did not work, as the, I'll call it 'Introduction' page, seems to remember where the mouse was last and continue to display the rollover text, regardless of how you get to the Intro page.

And my first post probably wasn't clear - what I meant was that I tried changing the timing on the rollovers in hopes that I could find a solution.

Thanks!
Captiv8r
Captiv8r
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February 7, 2008
Hi again Melody

Sorry, there is really no workaround I'm aware of. I had tried that trick you mentioned and I've never made it work. Your post sounded as if you had some success and I was surprised, which is why I asked.

Actually, the Captivate Exchange area has a Jeopardy style game that someone created where they exploited this quirk.

Unfortunately, I'm unaware of any workarounds to offer.

Cheers... Rick
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mdeyerle
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February 7, 2008
Hello,

I'm now using Captivate 2 for the first time, and I seem to be having a similar problem.

On my first screen, I have 5 different rollover text areas, which I'm using as 'tooltips' Then, on top of these I have 5 different click areas which will move the user to a different slide. Problem is, when they come back to this first screen, the rollover text area will still be displaying (and will only go away if they hover on it, then leave the hover area).

I've tried a few different things -
Having a 'dummy' first-first page that automatically moves to the introduction screen.
Messing with the rollover area timing.

I am missing a really simple solution or perhaps a completely different way to approach this problem?

I appreciate all your help!

Thanks,
Melody
Captiv8r
Captiv8r
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February 7, 2008
Hi Melody and welcome to our community

So, did the additional first page solve the issue for you? I mean, aside from the timing change.

Can you expound on how it changed your timing? There is nothing I can fathom that would cause the timing to change.

Cheers... Rick
Captiv8r
Captiv8r
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February 7, 2008
Hi there spritc

If that's the behavior you want, you might be able to accomplish it by changing the button action. If you leave the button at the default, it should pause the slide, then simply continue play to the slide end. This would provide the fade out you are looking for. But most of us change that action from *continue* to *go to next slide*. And when we go to next slide, there is no time for the fade out to occur.

I'm thinking if you carefully set the button option to continue, then tweaked the timing so the caption faded out as the Success caption disappeared, you might get what you want. But there is no pat answer. It will probably take a bit of trial and error.

Cheers... Rick
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