Comments for Captain Captivate

Comment on Captivate 3 Tip: Using a Highlight Box as a Cover by Saskia

Saskia — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 11:17:01 +0000

Excellent tip!! Thanks

Comment on Captivate 4, FLVs and the TOC by captivatehero

captivatehero — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 02:34:19 +0000

Aaron-

Unfortunately, there are no skins that have no scrubber and audio control - you have to take both. As far as I know those skins are part of the Captivate complied application and there is no way to add skins.
You could try using a Flash animation with a custom controller, but that going to lead to a massive amount of testing in Captivate.

- The Captain

Comment on Using Variables in Captivate 4: A Simple Page Counter by captivatehero

captivatehero — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 02:13:36 +0000

Ellie-

You could write an Advanced action that performs a calculation on the total number of slides and your current slide.

1. Create a new User variable called percentageComplete and set it to 0
2. Write and Advanced Action the divides cpInfoCurrentSlide and rdInfoTotalSlides and set it to the value of percentageComplete.
3. Display the percentageComplete variable in the text caption with the following code:

$$percentageComplete$$%

4. You will need to run the Advanced Action on each slide to get this to update. Also, any branching will cause this to act inconsistent.

I hope this helps.

- The Captain

Comment on Captain Captivate Store by captivatehero

captivatehero — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 02:08:28 +0000

Laraine-

You may have to use custom variables to keep track of your course progress depending upon the structure of your course. You could write an Advanced action that takes the current slide number and adds a value on to it - thus giving the impression that you are progressing through the modules.

- The Captain

Comment on Captivate 5 New Features Webinar by captivatehero

captivatehero — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 02:04:36 +0000

Odds are I’ll be recording this and posting later.

The Captain

Comment on Using Variables in Captivate 4: A Simple Page Counter by Ellie

Ellie — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 22:04:54 +0000

I am trying to have the progress bar show a percentage of completion. Can you help me with the variables?

Comment on Captain Captivate Store by Laraine

Laraine — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 17:00:36 +0000

The page counter works fine for one module. But what if your course is 8 or more modules, how to you make the counter increment appropriately? Is this possible?

Comment on Captivate 4, FLVs and the TOC by Aaron

Aaron — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 21:28:12 +0000

Hey Captain,
I am using captivate 4 and streaming .flv in my project. The students taking my course cannot have the ability to fast forward the video. So i use the clear skin 1 skin in the flash video properties and this fixes this problem. But it creates another problem, the users cannot adjust the volume. For some reason the flash player skins start the video at half volume, even the ones that have the volume control. Is there a setting that i can have the video start at 100% volume? Is there a skin that doesnt have a scrub bar but does have the volume? Can i install more skins for the flash video player?

Thanks,
Aaron

Comment on Captivate 5 New Features Webinar by gavin

gavin — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 02:50:17 +0000

Dang! reached capacity already. will it be available on demand afterwards?

Comment on Captivate 5 New Features Webinar by Chris P

Chris P — Fri, 28 May 2010 17:56:09 +0000

Will you be recording the webinar? I can’t attend on June 11, but I’m very interested in hearing what you have to say.