Timing of Success/Failure Captions

[Fullernd]

The success and failure captions remain for the duration of the slide, so if I advance to the next slides, they remain displayed for the time period set for the "home" slide duration. This time appears grayed out in the options tab of the success caption. It doesn't seem to matter if I select "Pause for success captions" on the options tab for the Click box or what length I apply to the Click box. Changing the Next /Previous button settings doesn't seem to have any affect either. How do I make the feedback disappear when I click Next? The only thing that affects the duration of the feedback display is the duration of the whole slide.
Help!

[jbradley88]

If the user progresses to the next slide before the Failure/Sucess captions have faded out, the captions remain visible on the next slide until their full display period has elapsed.

Is this what you're experiencing? If so, I'm afraid it's a known issue with no "fix" available, at least in Captivate 2. I dunno if it's been fixed in Captivate 3.

Anyone using Captivate 3 who can comment?

[Fullernd]

I'm using Captivate 3 already. This practically makes the lesson unusable. I have a lot of user interaction throughout my lesson and once I added the narration, many of the slides are 20 seconds, which means the FB stays up for 20 seconds after I hit Next - through the next couple slides - and is joined by feedback from the next slides.
Any suggestions will be appreciated.

[jojolina]

Hi Fullernd

I am running Captivate 3 and can edit the display times of the success and failure captions independantly via the captions that appear. Based on this, I would assume that you have an installation problem. Try uninstall and reinstall and hopefully this glitch will vanish.

Cheers

Andrew

[Fullernd]

I found out that this is a bug in Captivate3.
DO NOT use the right click menu to "Select all" objects in your timeline and then select "Show for Rest of slide." This will permanently set the duration of the success and error captions to display for the rest of the slide and gray out the timing option on the captions. This duration will change with the slide duration, so when you add audio, you're really stuck with a LOOONG feedback. The only cure that I have found is to recreate the clickboxes and associated captions. If anyone finds a less painful cure, please feel free to share it.

[Captiv8r]

Hi Fullernd

I'm just going on gut feeling at the moment and I've not tested this. But have you tried returning the timing for the objects in your timeline from display for rest of slide to display for a specific time? I further suspect it could only be related to the object that produces the captions.

As I said, it's just a gut feeling, but may be worth looking at.

Cheers... Rick

[Fullernd]

Thanks for the suggestion, Rick, but I've gotten pretty creative in trying to get around re-creating all the feedback. I tried deleting the audio on one slide and selecting all and changing the timing to 3 seconds - no go. Changing just the clickbox - no go. Creating a new clickbox and then using the Apply to all click box to change all the clickboxes (this made my heart flutter as the hourglass came up, but it was just teasing me!) I'm going to try exporting the caption text to Word so I can copy paste the FB back in, but that's about all I can think of. Now if only I could export to Word..... the "busy" problem.