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Fluid box resizing smartshape object

Explorer ,
Jun 25, 2019 Jun 25, 2019

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I made a smart shape turned into a button with an image fill (29 x29), and the fluid box is a height of 35px with padding of H-2 V-6px. When I drag the shape into the fluid box it resizes it larger (35x35). How do I keep the fluid box from resizing shapes or images?

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Community Expert , Jun 25, 2019 Jun 25, 2019

You'll have to uncheck it When you talk about padding was that in the button or in the fluid box?

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Jun 25, 2019 Jun 25, 2019

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Is Stretch to Fit selected n the Fluid box?

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Jun 25, 2019 Jun 25, 2019

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Yes I do (if you mean stretch to fit)

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Jun 25, 2019 Jun 25, 2019

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You'll have to uncheck it When you talk about padding was that in the button or in the fluid box?

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Jun 25, 2019 Jun 25, 2019

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on the fluid box. Can you add padding to a smart shape?

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Jun 25, 2019 Jun 25, 2019

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Try selecting the box in Properties to Maintain Aspect Ratio of the object.

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Jun 25, 2019 Jun 25, 2019

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Thanks, but it was already checked

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Jun 25, 2019 Jun 25, 2019

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Yes, is labeled 'margins' in a shape.. Can I see the Properties of the parent fluid box?

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Explorer ,
Sep 24, 2019 Sep 24, 2019

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I was originally worried that the image fill may have been stretched. Since then, I have learned just the shape is resized not the fill. 

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Community Beginner ,
Oct 14, 2022 Oct 14, 2022

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Hello all. Working in 2019.

I am having a similar issue - and I am new to fluid boxes so I find various things frustrating.

One of them is that, even when I untick "stretch to fit" - the smart shapes / buttons still stretch to fit when they are dragged into the fluid box!

 

And then in the position panel, I have the ability to edit only one of either height/ width - in this test case the height, and even though "maintain aspect ratio" is enabled, the button only changes height, and I am unable to change the width at all! So I am left with this long button.

 

Only way it seems then to change the shape, is to add padding to the fluid box, divide the fluid box, and add more objects to the fluid box.

 

Another thing then with the fluid box and shapes, is that they keep affecting each other's values - and it seems impossible to have a row of buttons with the exact same width and height, because changing one makes the others adjust ever so slightly.

Removing buttons from a row results in the remaining buttons stretching out more and more each time one is removed...

 

Is this a bug or is there some kind of workaround?

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Community Expert ,
Oct 14, 2022 Oct 14, 2022

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Indeed, using Fluid Boxes is not easy at all.  Although having a lot of expertise with Captivate, when those boxes appeared it took me 3 months to get familiar with their functionalities.

Try to avoid combining settings in the Position Properties panel with setting up fluid boxes. You may need a lot more fluid boxes to get the result you want. 

A text only explanation is not always relevant, please try to add some screenshots to explain exactly what you want, and what you have tried without getting the expected result.

 

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Community Beginner ,
May 02, 2023 May 02, 2023

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Thank you Lilybiri, and sorry for my super late reply...
I will need to delve a lot more into fluid boxes, but what I was working on as an option was rather replaced by the traditional device views for 'responsiveness', so I will rather not spend project time on fleshing out the question now with screenshots, etc.

Will get back to this thread when I have to face the complexity of fluid boxes in the future!

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May 02, 2023 May 02, 2023

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Indeed a long time, didn't remember this answer at all.

You are wise, acknowledging that fluid boxes are not as easy to use as the marketing people claim. I suppose by 'traditional' you mean that you have used a non-responsive project published with the option Scalable HMTL checked?

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