How to hide TOC during movie loading

Report · Oct 13, 2009

Hi All,

Is there a way to hide TOC (rendered outside of the main clip) during movie loading? I wanted TOC to appear either as the whole clip is loaded or when the first slide is opened.

Any suggestions, please?

Thank you

Andy

Report · Oct 13, 2009

Hi Andy,

The best option what i could think of is to set the style of the TOC to overlay. Doing so would not show the TOC until the user clicks on a button.

Follow these steps:

1. Project -> Table of contents.

2. Check "Show TOC" checkbox.

3. Press the Settings button

4. Under style, select the Overlay option.

hope this solves your issue..

Regards,

Manish

http://blogs.adobe.com/captivate

Report · Oct 14, 2009

Thank you, Manish

Not exactly what i am looking for... I know the overlay option, but it is not a good idea to make TOC appearing on click, because many people will not notice it.

Are there any widgets to manipulate the TOC?

Report · Oct 14, 2009

I have just tried to do this today actually but was unsuccessful.

I wanted to disable the possibility of the user to navigate from the TOC before the entire course had loaded. I have some information on the first slide that I want the user to see, but now they can just skip by clicking a link in the TOC before all the content has been loaded.

Initially I thought that the variable cpLockTOC could be used to atleast disable the TOC interaction since the decription is "Enables/ disables user interaction on TOC". However, no matter what I tried it didn't work.

I tried to set the variable directly in Captivate on the first slide, but the TOC is actually loaded before the first slide so that was unsuccessful.

The I tried to set the variable through JavaScript from the HTM file, but that didn't help either.Navigation through the TOC is still possible even though the course haven't finished loading yet.

I can manipulate the TOC from within the Captivate movie by embedding some special Flash "animations" / Widgets I have. These can send commands to the TOC and for example open / close the TOC if you are using the overlay mode. They can also hide / show the standard overlay button, which isn't exactly pretty. I'm pretty sure that I could make a Flash file that would hide the TOC completely when run from within Captivate, but it won't help me because the content in the Captivate movie isn't loaded until after the TOC has loaded.

Manish - what is the function of the cpLockTOC variable? Isn't it to disable/enable the users interaction with the TOC alltogether? If so can this variable not be set from the HTM file on load?

/Michael

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