If you have limited time, look for any Flash animations and recorded typing text first.  Whenever I've had issues with corrupted projects those two object types have been the ones that caused it. ... View more

If you wanted to make this question a little more interactive, you could use a drag and drop widget to have the learner drag and drop the three boxes onto a target as a way of 'selecting' them. http://www.infosemantics.com.au/catalog/widgets/question/wdgt_dragAndDropLite_AS3 Once all objects are on the target, you can have the question submit automatically to trigger jumping to the next slide or question. It's not exactly what you were asking for, but you did ask for alternate suggestions and workarounds. ... View more

Another option is to turn a transparent caption into a button by adding an Event Handler widget to the slide and pointing it at the text caption using the Item Name. http://www.infosemantics.com.au/catalog/widgets/interactive/wdgt_event_handler_01 The Event Handler widget turns almost any Captivate screen object into an interactive object.  Click and Double-click are only two of the mouse events you can use to trigger Success or Failure criteria. ... View more

Since you indicate number 1 was easy for you, here are some suggestions for the other items: 2. Question screen, that has 4 options say one, two, three, and four and the requirement for this question is user has to use TAB key to select any option on clicking ENTER key feedback for the option appear (depending it right or wrong) This is known as a Multiple Choice question and usually displays radio buttons.  In Captivate, after selecting one of the option buttons, the user must click the Submit button to have the answer evaluated and marked correct or incorrect. As for using the TAB key to move from one option to the next: If you create a Multiple Choice question you will find that hitting TAB repeatedly will cycle through all objects and options on the question slide, including the buttons on the playbar. You can configure a Shortcut key for any button, including the Submit button on a question slide.  So you could configure this to be the ENTER key if you wanted to make it possible to Submit the question by clicking ENTER. You can configure the text in the Success or Failure captions to provide feedback to the learner about their response.  Search the Captivate help files for Advanced Answer Options. 3. Question screen but here I don’t need radio or check buttons, what I need is simple text options with rollovers to select. You'll need to provide more information about what you want here.  Your description is a little vague.  What do you mean by "text options with rollovers to select"? 4. Feedback screen, how to connect all these question to provide feedback as there are statics screen in between question screens. If you are referring to Quiz Results, these are shown on a Quiz Results slide, as long as you configure your Quiz Settings to display it.  Search the Captivate help for information about "Preferences".  Captivate keeps track of all the questions in a project automatically and will calculate the overal scores and statistics for the modules to display in the Quiz Results slide.  You don't need to worry about "connecting" them.  Captivate does that for you. Hope this helps. ... View more

Welcome to our community. People usually log questions here when they have attempted some task in Captivate and have experienced issues.  This is not a forum designed to offer training (though quite a few of the contributors here work for companies that provide Captivate training). Your post doesn't indicate whether or not you have tried to achieve these four outcomes and ran into difficulties.  I'm sure you're not asking for someone to do this work for you.  So how far did you get so far on your own? ... View more

You are correct that the cpQuizInfoTotalProjectPoints and cpQuizInfoPointsscored are effectively READ-ONLY variables.  You cannot change them via Advanced Actions in Captivate.  They might however be modifiable via an AS3 widget.  You can embed AS3 code in the widget that will execute when the Captivate SWF is running to perform all kinds of tasks.  They're very powerful, but creating them requires you to know how to program in ActionScript 3.  Even if you were already an AS3 programmer, you'd also still need to know quite a bit about the inner workings of Captivate to understand its internal structure and find out how to access the variables in a way that didn't break something else. For information on how to program Captivate widgets, the best information is found on the Widget King blog:  http://www.infosemantics.com.au/widgetking/ It has blog posts about creating question widgets. Please note that the information here is largely targeted at people with existing AS3 skills wishing to transfer them to Captivate.  It's fairly complex. As far as adding JavaScript functions to Captivate content:  You would need to modify the HTM templates that Captivate uses when it publishes out to web content.  The HTM pages have quite a bit of JavaScript already (to handle the possibility of using a right mouse click) but if you turn on SCORM quiz reporting, Cp uses totally different templates that have all the JavaScript code to hook the lesson into the SCORM API to communicate with the LMS.  If you already know how to write JavaScript code, most of this will be understandable.  If you don't already know JavaScript, don't wade in and start changing anything. You're more likely to break something. The long and the short of it remains:  Doing the kind of sophisticated scoring modifications you are talking about will require that you (or someone you know) has programming ability. ... View more

Can I ask a question here: Why have you opted for requiring the user to click something to get this feedback if all you are going to do is display a text caption?  Why not just use rollover captions instead? You can trigger pauses in Captivate movies by adding buttons, clickboxes, and interactive widgets.  But as soon as you start clicking things on a slide, you progressively move through the objects that are adding pauses until you reach a point where there's nothing left to prevent the slide from continuing to play. Using mouseover as the mechanism to display information gives you a lot more freedom because it doesn't trigger the movie to continue playing. So is this approach an option for you? ... View more

I don't think you could do this in the same lesson without a lot of fancy AS3 widgetry underneath the hood.  It would not be easy. Your quickest and easiest way to implement such an idea is simply to have two versions of your course, one with English and the other in German,  Then you have a landing page that offers the learner the option (clickbox or button) to select their preferred language.  Clicking one or the other will branch them to open the relevant lesson. Where you may encounter problems with this is when you are using an LMS.  If you have both English and German lessons packaged together in the same course, the LMS will think the learner has only completed half of the total lessons.  In that case, you are forced to have two entirely different courses packaged as an English SCORM and a German SCORM.  The user would then be selecting their preferred language in the LMS, not in the Captivate lesson. ... View more

OK, back to basics: Create a blank presentation with one slide, no captions or preloaders or skins, publish, upload to LMS and confirm whether or not it plays. If yes, start adding objects, beginning with a text animation.  Then publish upload to test.  Find out whether or not all Captivate objects and trimmings are accepted by your target LMS/webserver combo. If the LMS doesn't go black screen yet, copy a single slide from your problem lessons into this (so far successful) lesson and test. Keep going this way slowly until you can replicate the issue after adding something. I realise this will take a lot of time, but it's the only way I know to find tricky issues like this. If you can replicate the issue at step 1, and it plays OK on you PC locally but not on the LMS, it's got to be something in your LMS settings that is choking on something in your Captivate content.  Watch out for the fact that many corporate systems use a lot of proxy caching to save bandwidth.  So you may find you're actually looking at old content even though you've updated it.  Mark each new iteration with a callout displaying which version you are on so that you can be sure it's not cached. If you replicate at step 2 as soon as you start adding text animations, somehow your patch hasn't taken.  But you should still be able to replicate the same issue on your own system if you are on Flash Player 10.2. If you replicate the issue at step 3 or later, there's something in one or more of your slides, possbly corrupted elements, that has caused the issue. Hope this helps. ... View more

You can learn how to create widgets from the articles on this blog: http://www.infosemantics.com.au/widgetking/ More info about widgets here: http://www.infosemantics.com.au/widgetfactory/info Alternatively, if you were wanting to hire a widget developer to create a custom-built solution for you, then you need to have an appropriate budget to pay the developer for his/her time:. Some info about rates here: http://www.infosemantics.com.au/catalog/widgets/Custom_WDGT_DevService/about And here: http://www.cpguru.com/freelance/ A longer list of widget developers can be found at the bottom of this page: http://blogs.adobe.com/captivate/2010/11/drag-drop-in-adobe-captivate.html ... View more

You could use transparent GIFs for the Expand/Collapse buttons to effectively hide them and train people to just use the TOC button on the playback bar to open/close the TOC.  I sometimes wonder why we bother with the Expand/Collapse icons at all. ... View more

Flash might be valid, but is Flash with AS3? Also, how does it deal with Flash files that need to reference other local files by filename?  I think you may find that uPerform (like many Content Management Systems) renames files on import, which will break links. ... View more

Are you using the Publish option to FTP files direct to a server? Before you blame Captivate, try changing your publish destination to some local folder on your own machine and check whether the JS file gets published as well. You may find that something is intercepting the JS file (e.g. Antivirus software) when you publish directly to the server location.  I find sometimes I have to publish locally and then manually copy or upload to get JS files to be accepted. ... View more

You could use this widget to create a drag and drop question:  http://www.infosemantics.com.au/catalog/widgets/question/wdgt_dragAndDropLite_AS3 ... View more

Have you tried clearing your Captivate cache and republishing those lessons that refuse to run? ... View more

Steve, I take it you've already confirmed this black screen error has nothing to do with the recent Flash Player 10.1 issue with Animated Text in Cp5? ... View more

The kind of thing you're talking about doing would be possible if you had ActionScript 3 skills. It's not something I've seen successfully done with Advanced Actions. ... View more

This is a long shot, but: Have you tried clearing out the Captivate cache? Edit > Preferences > Global >  General Settings > Clear Cache button. I've noticed some really weird Cp5 issues when the cache gets to a certain size. ... View more

Does the uPerform doco indicate that it supports AS3 content?  I haven't used it for a couple of years now but I don't think it did back then. Also, from memory, uPerform is designed for you to upload single files that don't reference other files to play properly.  So (when I used it) it was more designed for creating courses where you uploaded content like PPT, PDF, or Word docs to create a 'course'. You may be quite correct that uPerform sees the file as an SWF and immediately uses a default player to display the content. ... View more

I think you may find that you need to have a more sophisticated On Success action set up for each clickbox. Could you give us a bit more information about what it is you're trying to accomplish? What do you want to happen when you "disable" an option? How have you set the number of attempts?  Infinite or a finite number? Using clickboxes will pause the movie slide. How have you prevented the slide from continuing to play so that the user still might have a chance to click the other option and find out that it's disabled? ... View more

Since you mention that email is involved, I'm wondering if the "issues" are related to the way people are trying to view the content at the other end. Are you sending them these files as individual email attachments?  If so, are they trying to view them by double-clicking the HTM file when it's still attached to the email?  If so, try asking them to save all attachments out to a folder somewhere on their hard drive and then go in to launch the HTM file. Alternatively, have you tried zipping all the required files and then attaching the zip file to the emails.  Then make sure they don't try to view the content by just double-clicking the zip file, opening within Winzip to view.  Make sure they go the extra steps to save the zip out to a folder, then unzip all contents, THEN try launching the HTM.  Also ensure that virus software at the other end hasn't disabled things like the JavaScript file that must be bundled in with Captivate content.  I've seen this file get stripped out by antivirus email filters, meaning that the content doesn't play. If you are sending these files to people, have you tried sending them to yourself on another computer or email client to check that you can get it to work for yourself? Just a few suggestions. ... View more

I think you'll find you need to have Flas CS3 or better (CS4, CS5) to work with AS3. Alternatively, you can download the free app FlashDevelop and use that for editing and compiling ActionScript code, as long as your code isn't buried inside the FLA as framescript. Get it here: http://www.flashdevelop.org/wikidocs/index.php?title=Main_Page ... View more

Try this: Save your project as a different name in a different folder. Go into your publish settings and change the title to what you want it to end up as. Publish to confirm that it now shows the correct title. Do Save As again, but this time save the project file back to it's original location and filename. Now publish again to see what the title becomes. Let me know what happens. ... View more

OK.  Understood.  I was just thinking that it might be worth the experiment of  trying one of your projects getting upgraded from Cp3 to Cp4 and then Cp5 to see if the issue remained. Happy to help out if you want to contact me offline.  I have Cp3, 4 and 5. ... View more

HI Rhonda, Did you upgrade these files directly from Cp3 to Cp5 or go via Cp4 first? I also observed and reported this issue during the Cp5 Pre-release Program when upgrading Cp4 files to Cp5, but thought it got fixed. Rod ... View more

Not sure if this is any use to you, but some Captivate question widgets also have the ability to AutoSubmit when the question's Success criteria has been met. For example, the Infosemantics Drag and Drop Lite question widget has Preference settings that enable the user to select a couple of ways that the question will submit automatically.  You can then have the On Success action in Captivate set to jump to the next or another slide, meaning that the user doesn't have to click anything. Widget details here: http://www.infosemantics.com.au/catalog/widgets/question/wdgt_dragAndDropLite_AS3 ... View more

I have also experienced some issues with Cp5 losing the connection to my USB microphone  (a Rode Podcaster). I suspect that the audio drivers are not detecting Captivate, or vice versa.  Either way, this is definitely a bug. ... View more

Have you tried republishing the movie as AS3 and Flashplayer 10? Flasplayer 8 was nowhere near as efficient at decoding SWF content. If all your users are on FP 10, publish to FP8? ... View more

If you want your files to load quicker, make them smaller. I've found that different people working in the same company can have widely differing experiences for load times for Captivate (or any other type of ) multimedia content. The intermittent nature of the apparent load times can be due to local or server caching of the multimedia files.  If someone else has recently viewed a large file, the web proxy may have cached it so that the next person seems to get it almost immediately.  This can make the actual issue (large filesize and poor bandwidth) harder to diagnose. There's a nice little shareware app called Charles that enables you to find out exactly what your local bandwidth is when downloading or playing streaming content such as Captivate output.  I had one client that swore blind he had good ADSL bandwidth to all users so the bandwidth wasn't the issue.  Using Charles to observe stats on the download we found his ACTUAL bandwidth was something barely better than an old telephone modem. People forget that available bandwidth fluctuates wildly depending on how much other stuff is happening at the same time on the network. ... View more

Sound to me like you might have something corrupted in your project.  In the past when I've had this issue (thankfully very rare) I've use a process of elimination to find the issue.  Just take a copy of your project and delete all slides in the first half then try publishing.  If it now publishes OK, your issue was somewhere in those slides.  Otherwise try deleting all slides in the second half, etc.  Progressively work your way down by deleting more and more stuff until you find the actual slide or slides that seem to be responsible. If you can get down to the actual slide with the issue, try copying over elements from that slide to a new slide and then delete the old slide.  If the issue remains, try deleting objects on that slide until it works. Objects that seem to have been responsible for more that their fair share of issues for me are Flash animations using AS2 in projects that were AS3.  And the worst of all seem to have been slides containing some recording of text being typed on screen. Hope this helps. ... View more