Recording Captivate 4 with WPF windows applications

[Upward1126]

Is anyone having issues recording captivate sessions using a WPF windows application. Specifically, I lose my ability to view data in any drop down control, although the data is there as I can retrieve it using the keypad. I have also had issues with the application locking after clicking on the drop down arrow. I have been assured by the development group that they have stuck to standard WPF controls, not any exotic third party controls. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

[Captiv8r · Accepted solution]

Hi there

Hmmm, this makes me wonder if WPF is what's used for presenting the Advanced Actions in Captivate. I say that because I personally had issues with capturing this area in Captivate.

One suggestion is to establish a remote desktop control from the PC with Captivate. You actually run the problematic application on a separate PC. You control it remotely from the PC where you have Captivate installed. Because it's simply a windowed application on the PC where Captivate is installed, you can usually overcome any incompatibilities between the application and Captivate.

Hopefully this helps... Rick

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[Upward1126]

Thank you very much Captiv8r.

Worked like a champ.

[shawninvancouver]

RDC with Captivate?

I didn't know that would work.

I posted a question a few days ago, wishing that there was a light version of Captivate. I have a constant requirement to capture software simulations in an isolated environment (aka VMware). The problem is that I need these environments to remain as prestine as possible. Installing Captivate, configuring IE 6 (in most cases) to accept an Adobe Flash download and install really changes the prestine VM environment.

If you are suggesting that I can use Captivate to capture software simulations by RDCing into the VM... that would be just perfect!

[Upward1126]

Exactly, and it works fine.

[cgbechtold]

I have been using Captivate 5.5 and it consistently crashes our WPF applications.

When I record via VMware, using automatic software simulation, it misses significant interactions.

Yesterday I installed a trial of TCS 4. Same problem with the WPF recordings.

I've resorted to Camtasia for the time being. MUCH more difficult workflow.

My suspicion is a conflict between WPF video layers and Captivate. The crashes are altogbether repeatable and predictable. Just not fixable.

Anything new since this thread?