Tube Fill Gauge

[rynotrain]

Hi Awesome Cp People,

Would someone be so kind as to direct me to a resource to help me build a tube fill gauge?  I'm basically filling the tube as users make correct choices across a 5 slides where users can go to any of the 5 slides in any order.  Trying to accomplish this with javascript (making the height of the fill object go up as correct choices are made).  Any quick direction would be great. - Ryan

[Lilybiri]

Do you mean something like the stars appearing in this movie when an answer is correct? I used advanced actions, you'll need a browser supporting Flash player to see the embedded SF:

Playing with Numbers - part 1 - Captivate blog

[rynotrain]

Not quite.  Tube fill, pill fill, or by way of any other name, it looks like this attached where tube fills as users choose correctly across multiple slides.  Attempting to do this without 50 different separate objects and instead use js to change the height of the filler color.

[rynotrain]

[Lilybiri]

In a multistate object it is very easy to change the height, but go ahead with JS if that feels to be easier to you. The object can be timed for rest of project (as I did often), thus being used over many slides. I have clock rotatiing examples, shape fill exampels etc.

[rynotrain]

Understood.  Can you point me to a shape fill example? 

[Lilybiri · Accepted solution]

You would need more states, but here is a rough example on the second slide:

Game

Sorry, it is in Dutch

[rynotrain]

I get it....this will be interesting....if only one of the advanced action was x/y h/w change, but I guess that's what states are for.  Thanks for the help.

[Lilybiri]

You could use effects, but then you would need multiple images, because you cannot apply an effect in a state.  I am sure that this can be done with JS as well, but I love to push Captivate's advanced/shared actions to the limit.

[rynotrain]

I know it. Albeit cleaner and probably easier, I think this can be accomplished with a combo of states, objects, variables, conditional actions. I’ll let you know how it turns out and share once complete.