Left-click, drag, release into next slide or continue

Report · Sep 05, 2016

Hi,

I checked the forums for this interaction and am not successful.

It's a complex interaction that simulates software that lets you drag to zoom in an area.

Any thoughts? I haven't attempted to program this yet and I've been to enough forum postings to be familiar with Lily's drag & drop technique and Rod's Event Handler widget.

Thanks.

Report · Sep 05, 2016

Having something happen with a left mouse click or on mouse up isn't going to be the issue.

I think your main problem is going to be trying to replicate the boundary box that gets drawn but such an interaction.

Report · Sep 05, 2016

Hi,

Thanks for responding. I've given up on trying to figure out the draw boundary line animation that goes with the zoom. I think I can still get the point across with the left-click, drag and continue to next page algorithm.

Any ideas on how to do this within Captivate 9 without the use of custom widgets?

Report · Sep 05, 2016

It may not be that difficult.

You actually need the action to happen ON Mouse UP when the user releases the left mouse button. You're in luck! Captivate interactive Shape buttons and Click Boxes actually DO perform their action ON MOUSE UP, not ON MOUSE DOWN.

Report · Sep 06, 2016

Thanks for the response. I'll go ahead and give that a try. So, the move would be to Go to next slide on the ON MOUSE UP action. This means that the user would left-click, hold and drag an object and on release go to next slide. All this would happen in a drag and drop interaction, then? I think I would like to try setting a target area on the stage for the mouse click to come off before going to next slide...do I even have to do drag and drop (because the mouse click up will execute an advanced action no matter what...)?

What say you? Thanks again for the advice Rod. I wasn't aware of the functionality in the interactive Shape buttons (the interactive shapde would be transparent, yes?).

Report · Sep 06, 2016

I don't really see what benefit there is in using a Drag and Drop interaction. That won't help you to create a bounding box effect. You don't need a drag and drop interaction just to hold down the left mouse button, drag it sideways and then release the mouse button to execute its assigned action.

Yes you can make Shape buttons transparent by setting Opacity to 0%. But a Click Box will do it just as well.

Report · Sep 09, 2016

Great! I'll give that a go. As I mentioned, the bounding box is not important. The skill to be shown is the click, drag and release. The next slide will be the zoomed in image.

I won't use the drag and drop interaction.