Captivate scripting - change x & y position of object

[#1]

Hi all,

I am asking this because I would like to know if this is technically possible in Captivate 9...

What I would like to do is to have a button with a script on it so that when you click it an object

on the screen (this could be an image or a flash SWF object etc) moves from one point of the

screen to another. For example, it could be in the top-left hand corner and when you click the button,

it moves to the bottom right hand corner.

I know you can make one object on one part of the screen invisible by hiding it and making an identical

object elsewhere visible by showing it to give the illusion that it has just "moved" but I am wondering if

a script is possible where I can just move the same object.

Thanks in advance.

Keith

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[#2]

This is a script I used to incrementally move an object by 10 pixels right and down. If you change the number (10) it should work for you.

var obj = document.getElementById( 'Image_1c' );

var posX = parseInt( obj.style.left );

var posY = parseInt( obj.style.top );

obj.style.left = ( posX + 10 ) + 'px';

obj.style.top = ( posY + 10 ) + 'px';

[#3]

Hi, Thank you for your reply.

How EXACTLY do you implement the above script in captivate?

Thanks

[#4]

Choose Execute JavaScript as the action on your button. Put the script in the script window and make sure the dropdown selection is current. The items in bold are the name of the object you want to move and the numbers are where you want it to move relative to where it is. Whatever you object name is you may have to append a "c" to the instance name.

var obj = document.getElementById( 'Image_1c' );

var posX = parseInt( obj.style.left );

var posY = parseInt( obj.style.top );

obj.style.left = ( posX + 10 ) + 'px';

obj.style.top = ( posY + 10 ) + 'px';

[#5]

Hi,

I have tried it but it doesn't seem to work

Thanks

[#6]

Hi,

Have you got a working example?

Thanks

[#7]

Not that I can share from my current work location.

What type of object are you trying to move?

What is it's name?

Can you post the code you are executing?

[#8]

hI,

var obj = document.getElementById( 'Image_1c' );

var posX = parseInt( obj.style.left );

var posY = parseInt( obj.style.top );

obj.style.left = ( posX + 10 ) + 'px';

obj.style.top = ( posY + 10 ) + 'px';

Image_1c is a FLASH swf file but I have tried this with a bitmap image and changed the name of that to Image_1c.

Would it be possible for me to send you the Captivate file?

Thanks

[#9]

This won't work for Flash output. You are going to need to use Lilybiri's solution or else have two of the swf files. Hide one then show the other in a different position.

[#10]

So, I have to use an image file such as a PNG. correct?

Thanks

[#11]

If you are publishing to HTML5 it can work. If you are publishing to swf it will not.

It doesn't matter what you are trying to move a swf, png, smartshape, you cannot get a reference to the element because it is inside of the swf, in HTML5 the elements are all accessible with code because they are in div or canvas elements.

[#12]

How do you apply javascript to a text caption. Adding a c does not seem to animate it only the shape of the box animates leaving the text at its location

[#13]

You can trigger any effect, also a motion effect using either directly with that button, or with an advanced action. If you don't need to do anything else with that button, the first approach will do what you want. At least: if you know the exact location where the object has to end. Motion path can be edited on the stage.

[#14]

Most of the time if you just use the element name (e.g "Image_1") it won't work the way you want it to, your best option is to check the object name within cp-frameset if you inspect on a browser while previewing it. Basically by adding the prefix "re-" and suffix "c" in your script, it works every time for me.

As an example:

document.getElementById("Image_1")

would become:

document.getElementById("re-Image_1c")

[#15]

TQ Very much...at last..itss work

[#16]

Hi Hashim, have you got a working sample of this? I´m struggling to move buttons around when a button is clicked but it doesn´t work at least in html5 preview mode with or without "re" and "c" (why is captivate so awfully undocumented?). I think I´m missing some javascript syntax like add "cp." somewhere. Thanks!

[#17]

Well, I get it to work in a blank project adding the "c" suffix.

var obj = document.getElementById( 'objetoc' );
var posX = parseInt( obj.style.left );
var posY = parseInt( obj.style.top );
obj.style.left = ( posX + 10 ) + 'px';
obj.style.top = ( posY + 10 ) + 'px';

But I have no luck with the button, It seems that the object isn´t really an object and javascript just move the picture of it, not the click box (and the rollover and down states).

[#18]

I kept doing some tests and the winner is... THE CLICKBOX!!

Is the only clickable object I can move properly. The button and the smart shape button lost their action area, but the clicbox moves arround keeping its functionallity. The trick is that you must move simultaneously the object itself and the "re-objectc" thing.

Hope it will be useful for someone.

var obj3 = document.getElementById( 'cajaclic' );
var posX = parseInt( obj3.style.left );
var posY = parseInt( obj3.style.top );
obj3.style.left = ( posX + 10 ) + 'px';
obj3.style.top = ( posY + 10 ) + 'px';

var obj4 = document.getElementById( 're-cajaclicc' );
var posX = parseInt( obj4.style.left );
var posY = parseInt( obj4.style.top );
obj4.style.left = ( posX + 10 ) + 'px';
obj4.style.top = ( posY + 10 ) + 'px';

[#19]

Bad thing is that the click box can NOT be used in Fluid Boxes projects.