Multiple selection images for questions

Hi Lieve, 

HotSpots are a little less limited that what you describe. 

1. The "Allow Clicks Only on Hotspots" option prevents users from clicking outside of defined hotspots, so the space outside of hotspots CAN be made inactive!
2. You can create one hotspot for each image (both correct and incorrect images) and decide in the PI of each hotspot if it represents a good answer or not.
3. the Correct caption would show only if the set of correct images are chosen when the Submit button is ticked.

So when you say that "User wants them to click on several images, some are correct, some not. Cannot be done with hotspot, because any space outside of correct hotspots is considered incorrect", this is actually not the case (sorry). 

Use shape buttons made from the images as I talked about, no need to add a score. Just cheat on Captivate:

• Uncheck the option for Incorrect message for all the shape buttons
• For the correct images, edit the Correct message, so that it is a congratulations or something similar
• For the incorrect images, edit the Correct message, so that it tells this was a failure.

The meaning of Correct, Incorrect for interactive objects is that Correct shows up when clicking on the object, Incorrect shows up when clicking outside of the object. However since you want them to click on a certain number of correct images, you'll need user variables to track if the button was clicked and to check if all correct images were clicked.  I will label those variables v_one, v_two...v_last (you didn't mention the number) I suppose you want to hide the Next button until the user has that number of correct clicks? In that case:

1. For the incorrect image buttons, choose No action
2. For the correct images you'll need a conditional action with two decisions:
   1. First decision 'Always' is a mimicked standard action
        IF 1 is equal to 1
           Assign v_one with 1                 default value of the variables is 0 - Boolean - when clicked it will be 1
      
   2. Second decision 'CheckIt'
        IF v_one is equal to 1    AND
            v_two is equal to 1   AND....
            .....
            v_last is equal to 1
      Show Bt_Next