Hover text on playback bar

[MJPettitt]

Hi,

I'm trying to change the hover text on the playback bar buttons. I'm using Captivate 7 and I've tried messing with localization options via Flash but as the intructions were for Captivate 4 I've had no luck. Any suggestions?

Thanks

[Lilybiri]

Have a look at: http://blogs.adobe.com/captivate/2010/11/playbars-demystified.html

I know, it is old, but think it still will be the work flow you need.

[MJPettitt]

I have tried this but to no effect.

[TLCMediaDesign]

I believe you'd have to edit or create a new playbar in Flash. The playbar templates are in the Templates/PlaybackFLA/AS3 folder. I'm sure there would be much more editing if you'd need an HTML5 version, but that could also just be done in the javascript, but then you'd have to edit the JS after each publish.

[MJPettitt]

Hey,

Thanks for your help. Still not really able to solve this. Is anybody able to give me any more details?

Cheers

[TLCMediaDesign · Accepted solution]

You will need to open a playbar in Flash and save as a new name if desired. The tooltips are in the localization MovieClip. They are in an array:

var pbcBtnTips_ENU:Array = new Array("Rewind ",

          "Back ",

          "Play ",

          "Pause ",

          "Forward ",

          "Closed Captioning ",

          "Audio On ",

          "Audio Off ",

          "Exit ",

          "Information ",

          "dummy for scratch bar ",

          "Table of Contents ",

          "2x Fast Forward Speed ",

          "4x Fast Forward Speed ",

          "Normal Speed ",

          "Print");

Change the tooltips text and export the movie to C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Captivate 7 x64\en_US\Gallery\Playbars\AS3. Make sure the skin editor points to the file you just created.

[MJPettitt]

You are a hero, thank you!

[TLCMediaDesign]

You're welcome. Could you please mark the correct answer so others may benefit also. TIA.