Tab feature not working in Adobe Captivate Project

Report · Jun 19, 2017

Hi.

I need help in publishing an Adobe Captivate 9 Project for work.

It's an interactive training module and there are parts of the training that require the user to press Tab to continue to the next slide/part.

However some of the Tab interactions are not working.

I have done the following with my project settings:

- I have unchecked the Seamless Tabbing option when publishing, and I've checked the HTML file that 'SeamlessTabbing' is 'false'

- In Publishing Settings I have selected 'Restrict keyboard tabbing to slide items only' and I've unchecked 'Enable accessibility'

Despite this, any actions are require you to press Tab do not work and you will end up Tabbing out of the project and into the browser's address bar.

Any advice on how I can get this to work would be much appreciated.

Thanks.

Dave

Report · Jun 20, 2017

Are you by chance publishing to HTML5? If so, you'll find that none of the things you tried will work. We had the same problem with our interactive software simulations. I suggest you contact Rod or Tristan Ward at InfoSemantics (http://www.infosemantics.com.au/ ). They modified one of their widgets for me that prevents the Tab key from jumping out of a Text Entry Box where Tab is the shortcut key.

Report · May 03, 2018

Thank you. I am having the same issue. I'll see if I can contact Rod or Tristan Ward.

Report · May 06, 2018

Hi Dave,

CpExtra has a feature related to this. If CpExtra is installed into your version of Captivate, you can create a variable called xcmndPreventTabOut

Then as an entry action on the relevant slide you can assign xcmndPreventTabOut with the name of the text entry box which needs to detect the tab key.

For more information on xcmndPreventTabOut here is the relevant CpExtra help: http://www.infosemantics.com.au/adobe-captivate-widgets/cpextra/help/command-variables/mouse-related...

Tristan,