Project Charm

[chrismay_at_delta]

Just watched the keynote from Adobe eLearning World 2021. The new version of Captivate, code-name Project Charm was quickly demoed. It looks like the interface has been majorly updated/changed. I'm not sure if I have ever seen an application get such a drastic change in one go. I'm not saying Captivate didn't need it, but we all got used to the way it was.

I hope the demo was a very simplified demo - I did not see a lot of the advanced features we use on my team. I hope they are still there.  

I'm also curious if there are changes to the Captivate player code. We use the JavaScript API and widgets very heavily. I hope we do not have to re-work all those for this new version.

It looks like creating responsive eLearning migh be a little easier in this new version.

What did everyone else think?

[craig_kasnoff]

You are such an optimist : )

[Russ Lickteig]

Well....will this be the week???

[WheatAtWork]

I'd love to be in on this. I was on the Captivate beta team for the Mac version a million years ago, for version 5. And I used to develop widgets for it. I have heard some good things about Project Charm, and I'd love to get a chance to beta test it. 

[Lilybiri]

Really? Version 5 never was released as Mac version.... maybe a typo?

[WheatAtWork]

Captivate 5 for Mac was released. It was also part of eLearning Suite 2. Here's a news item about it: 

http://www.photoshopsupport.com/photoshop-blog/10/cs5-05/captivate-cs5-elearning-cs5.html

[Lilybiri]

My apologies, my memory was wrong, told me Mac version was with release 5.5 or 6. Please ignore my comment.

[WheatAtWork]

No problem. 2010 was a long time ago. 

[Russ Lickteig]

Anyone hearing any Project Charm news?  

[craig_kasnoff]

Any day now (choose your planet : )

[Stagprime]

JavaScript humor, anyone?

if (v_charm == "announced") {
setTimeout(delay, 31536000000);
}

else {
    cp.alert("The program could not be found.","Project Charm");
}

function delay() {
    cp.show("charm");
}

[sharonhuston23]

Here's my solution:

var today = new Date()
var waitNoLonger = new Date('April 1, 2022 01:00:00');
if (today > waitNoLonger) AND (charmAnnounced == false){
	buyStoryline();
}

[Stagprime]

Dare I say that was very "articulate"?

[Russ Lickteig]

I suck at JavaScript ( which is in part why I use Captivate ) but I know enough to understand your messages.  Brilliant!  

[craig_kasnoff]

Well Charm may not be released anytime soon but the wit of this community has certainly been released : )

[chrismay_at_delta]

Well this just came to my inbox. Never saw an invite to join the testing... 
Must still be beaming the invite to Mars...

[miguelp93670367]

Nice, thats good news, keep us updated pleasee!!

[Greg Vose]

Hmm. So you were in the private beta? The one we are waiting on is the public beta, which was announced in September of 2022. It is a little odd that it makes reference to the fairy godmother thing that was part of the hatching egg but gets the beta type wrong as private rather than public.

Perhaps you got out your copy of Photoshop and decided to mess with us all? 😉

[miguelp93670367]

Hi,

i recive a mail with new details of proyect charm! 

i wanted to share it with you guys.

[etm1000]

I got the same message. 

[andrewg76970232]

Are you still waiting? It's been another 3 months, and no-one is talking about testing Charm

[Paul Wilson CTDP]

It seems many misunderstand the word private.

[andrewg76970232]

Except that I'm talking about the public beta they mentioned

[andrewg76970232]

The public beta which was supposed to be available months back. 

[Paul Wilson CTDP]

There was no date given for the public beta.

[andrewg76970232]

Well actually, when Charm was announced in November at the eLearning event, it was said "the public beta will be available this year". While that may not be a specific date - it was 'this year' e.g. 2021. 6 months have passed since then so it's not unreasonable to assume its several months late.

Maybe instead of swinging in here with smart comments about how people 'do not understand the word private' - maybe realise you're talking to another eLearning professional who attended the eLearning expo and has been following updates. Including comments from yourself on several threads hinting that Adobe are late with this.