html5 animations cover master slide objects

[kristiant44963151]

To avoid too many items on the timeline of eacg slide, I like to place buttons with universal functionality on Matser slides.

One thing is that you can't use custom states for shape buttons on Matser slides.

WHen i place an html5 animation on a slide, it will cover the buttons, even though I have set Master SLide Objects to be on top.

The sam thing happens if a place the buttons on top on a regular slide.

Is there any way to avoid this?

[Lilybiri]

Animations are on top of the stack, correct.

As for the shape buttons (normal buttons cannot be used on master slides): the alternative to have them on master slides is to put them on the first slide, time them for the rest of the project. It has the advantage that they will have an ID, so can be controlled by (advanced/shared) actions.

[kristiant44963151]

So there's no way to have buttons on top of animations?

The buttons I want to put on the Maaster slide are back an forward buttons.

By putting them on the first page and set duration for the project makes that functionality a bit hard to accomplish.

Or will the buttons know which slide they're on?

[Lilybiri]

Can you explain? If you put it on the first slide, timed for rest of project and always on top it is the same button (had only one ID, name) that will be on each slide. If you want to hide the Next button on the last slide, that is possible using the On Enter action. Same for the Back button on the first slide, which you can hide as well. That is impossible with shape buttons on master slides, because they do not have a name at all.

Why I like Shape Buttons - Captivate 6! - Captivate blog

[kristiant44963151]

I klnow.

But I'm thinking that if the forward button's action is set to Go to next slide, and the button is only on page one, will it not go to slide 2 every time it is clicked?

[Lilybiri]

Please, did you read that blog post?

Of course: since it is the SAME button and the action 'Go to Next Slide' is a general action, it will always execute that action on each slide. Are you new to Captivate?

[kristiant44963151]

No. I'm not new.

But quite new to placing a lot of objects on the first slide.

I will try this and see if it works.

OK. So, it works. But it still doesn't solve the problem with animations covering them.

[kristiant44963151]

I found a solution to the animation coverup. It seems that the button functionality remains although the graphics are hidden. So I’ll just put the button graphics into the animarion.

Kristian Taraldsen

Seniorkonsulent læringsteknologi, Læringssenteret

[Lilybiri]

Be careful when posting in this public forum: I just took out all your credentials, you don't want spam I suppose?

Be also careful with your 'solution': how did you test? Covering up an interactive object with a non-interactive object will allow to use the interactivity for SWF-output, but not necessarily for HTML output. Be sure to try it out with Preview in HTML Browser.

[kristiant44963151]

Thank you. ☺

[kristiant44963151]

Hi

It did work. The graphics showed in the animation, but the button functionality obviously lies on top of the animation. I placed some mouseover actions in the animation, but they were clearly covered by the Captivate buttons.

Interresting 🙂

[Lilybiri]

It is the interactive object that keeps its interactivity when covered by a non-interactive object. But I do know that this will not work all the time for HTML output at all! You will have to double-check, it is one of those annoying things you don't have to cope with in SWF-output.

[kristiant44963151]

It is an html5 animation (.oam) that will not work in SWF-output anyway,

I just did an html only publish. No problems detected.

[TLCMediaDesign]

Have you tried swf, I don't have any problems with an oam in swf.

[kristiant44963151]

The oam does not appear when I publish to SWF only.

[Lilybiri]

OAM works in SWF output as well, did you try?

Fine if the buttons are still functional, just warned you because it is not always the case. You have to try on all devices with all browsers.

Editing the ini file, as TLCMediaDesign pointed out,  would be a better idea to avoid those problems and have the buttons really on top of the stack.

[kristiant44963151]

I did edit the ini-file, but it didn't change anything.

When I publish the project as SWF only, the oam-file does not appear.

[RodWard]

Did you test it AFTER uploading to a web server?

[kristiant44963151]

No, I didn't. I will try that.

[TLCMediaDesign]

You can get the animation to layer correctly if you edit the C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Captivate 8 x64/AdobeCaptivate.ini

UseWidget7 = 1

[kristiant44963151]

What app should I use to edit the file?

When I use Wordpad, the app replies that I'm not allowed access to the file when I try to save..

[TLCMediaDesign]

Are you on a personal computer or a work computer?

If you're on WIndows 8 try saving the file to your desktop, then copy and paste the file to the location.

[kristiant44963151]

I'm on a personal computer with full admin rights.