I'm gathering from your description that you're trying to play this from your PC hard drive. These things usually work better when delivered from a web server and with the HTML and JS files also in the mix. Upload your content (all published files, not just the SWF) to your web server and try it from there. ... View more

If what you mean by "nothing displays" is that you're seeing a black screen, this issue has been resolved by applying a patch to Cp5. See this: http://www.infosemantics.com.au/node/191 http://blogs.adobe.com/captivate/2010/11/solution-for-cp5-content-not-working-with-the-latest-flash-player-version.html If this is not your issue, please supply some extra information.  What you've given so far is nowhere near enough. ... View more

Even if you weren't using it to generate the TTS speech, you're certainly using it to play it back. The other possibility is that this is related to CODECs. Maybe you should also be addressing the issue to the TTS software supplier.  They may have already seen the issue and found a fix. ... View more

Have you tried updating your audio card drivers and installing the latest version of Java? Some other Cp5 issues have been solved by updating drivers and Java. Worth a try. ... View more

Were any of the projects in your Aggregator set created in a previous version of Cp (e.g. Cp4) and then upgraded to Cp5? If so, you may have a glitch in an old TOC skin.  I've had some wierd issues with TOCs when upgrading to Cp5.  Usually I have to set up a brand new named skin in Cp5 and then apply that skin to all of my Cp4-5 projects to get rid of the issues. I've also noticed that although I can delete any skin I've created from scratch in Cp5, for some reason I cannot delete the skin that was brought in when I upgraded a Cp4 project.  The trash can icon is greyed out for the old skin.  So my gut is telling me that using that old skin is asking for trouble. Try an experiment: Create a new skin in Cp5 Apply the new skin to all projects in your aggregated set. Republish and aggregate. See if the TOCs now show duration as expected. ... View more

I think you need to report this as a bug.  If it's by design, it needs to be rethought. ... View more

There's no feature in Cp5 to import questions from MS Word or similar.  You can copy question slides from other projects, but you still have to create and format them in Captivate. Sorry. Get your Subject Matter Expert a license for Captivate so that he or she can create the questions for you and avoid the double handling. ... View more

For your practice questions, on the Quiz Properties tab, have you set General > points to 0, and on the Reporting accordion unticked the Report Answers box? Does that work? ... View more

The plain fact is that trying to record full screen isn't going to be the solution for you.  Even if your software looks better in FullScreen mode, you need to forget about having it maximised and use the Snap to Recording Window feature in Captivate instead.  That will eliminate the extra lines around the edges that you're complaining about. Record on a single monitor setup.  Run your larger monitor setup (1600 etc) so that you can set your recording window size to 1440 x 900 or however large it needs to be, and then snap your application inside that.Go back to dual monitors for the rest of the Captivate editing process if you want. Switch to FMR when recording your dynamic menus (press F9 to start FMR and F10 to stop it).  That's the only way you'll be able to capture what they look like. There are no perfect solutions and like the Stones said: "You can't always get what you want...but you can get what you need." ... View more

Have you considered NOT using extended monitors just while you are capturing?  If this set up is not working for you, plenty of people are able to use Captivate quite well to create software sims with just one monitor.  You can go back to your dual monitor set up once you've completed the capturing phase. I'm not sure I really understand your statement: "...the goal for this demonstration is to be placed within the (webbased) software it has recorded. Therefore it should have the entire window in it and everything should be well visible, even though the area in which the demo is placed is much much smaller than the actual recording window." Are you able to upload a screenshot of what you're trying to achieve, or at least what you're getting right now which is NOT what you wanted? ... View more

You might try saving the WAV file at a lower bitrate.  Try 16 bit audio. If you don't have an audio editor, try downloading a trial version of Adobe Soundbooth. ... View more

Okay.   That's what I was trying to establish.  You seemed to indicate that you might be trying to capture an application window that was maximised to full screen on monitors running high resolutions, but I wasn't quite prepared to believe it. I realise that you may only be starting out with using Captivate for screen capturing so I'm going to offer some suggestions that should make your life a lot easier. Unless you have an impelling reason for capturing at such large window sizes (e.g. you KNOW that all of your target audience WILL be using similar monitor resolutions, AND you cannot display the captured application at anything less, AND delivery bandwidth is NOT an issue) then I would suggest you aim for something much smaller.  You really don't need to capture at full screen.  There's no advantage to it, and as you've discovered, there are heaps of disadvantages.  You just cannot predict how the edges witll turn out consistently enough to enable you to go back and add more screens at a later date.  They just won't match.  This isn't Captivate's fault.  It's just not a good strategy to use. The better way to go is to decide up front what the MINIMUM practical size should be for your final output and then set your Captivate project up at those dimensions before you start capturing.  For example, even though I also run dual monitors at 1920 by 1200 pixels, I never capture at anywhere near that size.  If I'm doing tutorials to teach Captivate 5, I'll choose something around 1260 pixels wide by about 630 high and set my project to that.  Then I'll use the capture option to snap the target application into my project size.  So you make your application fit your project, not let your application or maximum monitor size determine how big your project should be. You need to remember that many people will not be using resolutions as high as yours.  If you build your tutorial too large, they won't be able to see all of it, and if it's too high, they won't be able to get to the playbar at the bottom to control the movie.  So one of the first things you need to get sorted BEFORE capturing anything on a project is who the target audience is, and what their minimum monitor resolution will be.  Then you still need to allow a margin for "browser chrome", browser toolbars or title bar, and cut it down even further on the height dimension to allow for the playback bar controls.  So even if you DO happen to have a target audience that are all on 1440 x 900, by the time you allow for all the things that cut into your screen real estate, you might find you need to capture at around 1420x800 or less. Is this making sense? ... View more

What is your actual capture size in pixels? You should be able to see this in Captivate 5 under  Modify > Rescale Project  as well as right down in the bottom right corner. ... View more

Do you have your monitors set up as Extended or Duplicated? What size are you capturing at (height x width in pixels)? ... View more

What you are asking for is that the system automatically captures the course results for a given user and also "knows" who the user is, so that they don't have to enter their personal details (or try to cheat the system by entering results on behalf of another user).  This type of functionality is called Single-sign-on, which means that when the user is logged into your network, their ID credentials are already recorded in the browser and can therefore be used to identify the user without requiring them to log in or give their name. The situation you are describing wasn't the use case that the Post Results solution was intended to fill.  You need a Learning Management System.  End of story.   Quite frankly, the new options that come with Captivate 5 for recording quiz results and displaying them via an AIR app were never meant to replace a full-blown LMS.  This functionality was only intended for people that did not have the wherewithal to implement more sophisticated solutions such as an LMS for some reason.  It's light-weight and simple to implement, but down on power.  It's the VW beetle of the e-learning world.  What you're asking for is a medium-sized truck with a diesel-powered engine and decent payload. You've indicated that you're already delivering your courses via an "internal server". So if this is a web server, my question is, why aren't you looking into something like Moodle as your solution? It's free open-source and very powerful.  It can also easily handle single sign on.  As LMSs go, it's a great solution for anyone that doesn't have much of a budget.  It's the Toyota Hino of the LMS world. ... View more

If DELL doesn't still offer the high-end 17 inch laptops you need, I've heard good things about Sony Vaio and even Toshiba. Maybe now that Captivate 5 is available on MAC you could even consider that too, unless you need to continue using Cp4. ... View more

Some LMSs have a specific order of priorities in the way they deal with course completion and pass/fail status. This is the way that SABA LMS works for one of my clients. Statuses are ordered from best to worst as follows: passed > failed > completed > incomplete. This can mean that if you have ANY scorable objects such as questions or interactive objects (clickboxes, buttons, widgets) in your course, the Pass/Fail status over-rides the Completion status of the course.  It means that if the person doesn't achieve a passing score, they are also counted as not completing the course.  Take out the scoring objects and you can get Completion.  Leave them in and Completion only occurs if the course is passed. Not all LMSs work this way.  Maybe yours does. ... View more

I've been using DELL laptops for Captivate development for the past 6 years without issue. I started with a DELL 9300  Inspiron 17 inch (which is still going well)  and now have two DELL Studio 17 inchers. I never use the DELL arrray microphones (those tiny holes either side of the camera) for recording audio.  The sound has too much background noise.  Instead I use either a Blue Snowball USB mic or a Rode Podcaster USB.  Both are on booms so that I can position them ideally when recording. I find this setup works perfectly for me. ... View more

Marek, Our newly updated Event Handler widget with options to Disable slide Continue and Reset Success/Failure criteria after Action might also be useful in combination with Lilybiri's Advanced Actions and Variables wizardry.  You don't need to use multiple clickboxes and counters to trigger these events now.  You can use a single widget that can be clicked multiple times. Read the updated doco here: http://www.infosemantics.com.au/catalog/widgets/interactive/wdgt_event_handler_01 to see if it might be of use. ... View more

As of just a few moments ago you have yet another option to achieve this effect using standard Captivate captions and a new version of our Event Handler interactive widget.  We've just released an updated version of the widget which adds a lot of extra functionality, including Right Mouse Click as an event option. http://www.infosemantics.com.au/catalog/widgets/interactive/wdgt_event_handler_01 The new features that will particularly interest you are some additional widget preference settings to permanently pause a slide and allow repeated clicks on interactive objects to trigger any number of sequential Success or Failure actions. I think this means you can now achieve your original objective by having multiple Event Handler widgets on the same slide with each one set to display Success captions when clicked.  If you set the widget preferences for Disable Continue and Reset Success/Failure criteria after Action, your users will be able to click away as often as they like to see the resulting feedback again and again without leaving the slide. You'll have to set up at least one interactive object on the slide (e.g. a button) with the action set to Continue, or Jump to another slide so that your users can progress to other areas of the movie. Does this help you at all?  If so, please mark this issue as Solved. ... View more

The simplest way I can think of to fulfil this type of use case is to just use a Hot Spot question to have the user mark the three boxes.  When they've marked them with an animation (by clicking in the boxes) they can click the Submit button (perhaps renamed as Continue) to move to another slide.  Captivate can evaluate the three boxes they've selected and branch to either a Success slide or a Failure one, depending on what you are trying to accomplish. It's not exactly what you were after, but apart from getting a custom-developed question widget to do this (which would cost hundreds of dollars), I can't think of another easy way off the top of my head. ... View more

Actually, thinking about your requirement a little more...I would suggest you look at purchasing this widget from Whyves: http://blog.flash-factor.com/widgets/interactive-label-widget/ I think you may find that it offers what you're after. You need to set the Success Action to No Action.  You are effectively using the widget itself as your captions. ... View more

Marek, Thanks for the compliment.  Glad you like the widget. As for your suggestions: Currently the widget only allows you to assign a drag object to one target, though you can have multiple drag items assigned to that target. Drag items can remain visible after being placed on a target.  Just ensure that the Hide Drag Objects After Drop preference is not ticked. We take on board all suggestions for improvements to the widget, but we just don't have a lot of time at the moment to make modifications.  This widget is the "Lite" version. We have in mind to create a more sophisticated "Pro" version later with some really fancy preference options.  But that won't be for a while. ... View more

I just tried this in Captivate 5 and had no difficulty changing the colour of the quiz answer caption including the letter A).  I just selected the caption and selected white in the Properties > Character accordion.  I just placed a green highlight box behind the answer text to simulate your background.  Was your question created from scratch in Cp5 or was it converted from a Cp4 project? ... View more

Does the project work if you manually copy a standard.js file from another project into the publish folder? Do you get a standard.js file created in the publish folder if you try any of the other publish options (e.g. SCORM or AICC output)? ... View more

I suspect your colleague did not save his .cp project file before publishing the movie out as an EXE file.  If he closed down Captivate without saving the .cp project file at least once, all you'd be left with is whatever he published from the project before closing it. ... View more

Try not using Audacity to create the final MP3s.  Use Audacity to do your editing and then save as high-quality WAV files instead, and then import those WAVs into Captivate 5.  Captivate will create MP3s at publish time.  You have the option to compress them as much as you like. Another thing to remember with Audacity is that previous versions of Captivate didn't like Audacity output if the bit rate was too high.  From memory I think you need to use 16bit, not 24 or 32. Memory is a bit foggy on the details but I do remember Captivate choking on the output if the bit rate was wrong. You should be able to get excellent quality audio out of Cp5.  I find it way better than Cp4 with or without editing in Soundbooth. ... View more

I think you may be approaching this incorrectly. As far as SCORM is concerned, a Multi-SCO object is one course.  You can set some objects as being for information only, but any scoring objects (SCOs) will need to be completed. What you want is that the course is regarded as completed and passed when only some of the SCOs are not completed. I would suggest you look into having these two "tracks" as separate courses.  If each track has multiple lessons, then each course is its own Multi-SCO. Use the LMS to govern which courses (tracks) are required for a given user to complete according to their role assigned in the LMS. ... View more

If uPerform doesn't support AS3, Captivate 5 SWFs can ONLY be published as AS3. Cp4 could publish as AS2. So that might be what has changed. ... View more