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Sure thing ... screen shot below. Where do I look to see what padding has been set? It isn't showing up under style or options for the object properties. (Sorry for not having ready answers to what should be easy questions - an instructional designer originally created this file for me, and then moved on from that position; now I'm 4 IDs and 3 versions of Captivate later, and it's quite a breadcrumb trail!)
These objects seem to be images? Those images have been created with a size whichis bigger than the ellipse, hence that big bounding box which is the real cause of your issues. I wrongly supposed those were shapes, in that case the bounding box would have touched the ellips. You could try to crop the images so that this is the case.
As for the hit area padding, select a drop target;
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I'm using 10.0.0.192 (2017).
I made the drag-and-drop with the interaction tool. I did see that the destination mapping arrow snapped to the center of each target (as expected). Now I don't know how to get back to the view with the arrows, though, to show you that they really did point to the centers of the targets. Below is the screen cap of the slide. The ovals on the codon dictionary table are the dragable elements, and the row of boxes across the top are the targets.
Ah, and here is the snap property screen with one of the targets highlighted...
Okay, I tried shrinking the targets a little bit and spreading them out, so now the bounding boxes don't overlap. At first, I thought it was significantly improved: I still had to drop a little to the left of center in order to get the shape to land on the target, but close enough!
But then, I kept going down the row, and it got even worse. One of the boxes behaved the opposite of the others, and I had to drop slightly right-of-center (no big deal), and then the second-to-last target would not work at all. I've pasted a screen cap and video below, showing that (1a) the target bounding boxes don't overlap, (1b) the malfunctioning target is a target, and (2) the mapped object won't land on the 2nd to last target, no matter where it's released.
In my frustration, I tried deleting the interactive altogether and starting over: I re-mapped everything and reset the action attributes, and ... exact same behavior. I noticed when I was doing this that the drop object bounding boxes were much larger than the objects themselves. Would the overlapping cause problems on the drag item side of the equation? and if so, how do I get rid of the excess bounding box area? There is no way I can spread the targets out far enough to account for the excessive margins on the drag item boxes.
For reference, this interactive was working after making it with an earlier version of Captivate. I only set about editing it because the interactive wasn't html5 compatible, so this is an issue with the newer version of the drag-and-drop tool. These exact same shapes were working fine with the old widget.
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Sure thing ... screen shot below. Where do I look to see what padding has been set? It isn't showing up under style or options for the object properties. (Sorry for not having ready answers to what should be easy questions - an instructional designer originally created this file for me, and then moved on from that position; now I'm 4 IDs and 3 versions of Captivate later, and it's quite a breadcrumb trail!)
These objects seem to be images? Those images have been created with a size whichis bigger than the ellipse, hence that big bounding box which is the real cause of your issues. I wrongly supposed those were shapes, in that case the bounding box would have touched the ellips. You could try to crop the images so that this is the case.
As for the hit area padding, select a drop target;
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