North Texas Captivate User Group

Exploring Captivate 4

Bring your insights and questions about Captivate 4.

When: Wed., March 25th, 6:30-7:30

Where:
Mary Grimes Education Center
1745 Hutton Drive
Carrollton, TX 75006 (next to the stadium)
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Our host is Tom Schaeper.  (Thanks, Tom!)

Other agenda item: The passing of the managerial mantle.

Host: Leslie Bivens (NEC, 114 & 161 in Irving, additional details coming)
Topic: Captivate and audio best practices; narrative styles for scripting and text captions
Format: everyone bring your best samples to share

 The address for tonight’s (6:30-7:30PM) meeting is 6536 N State Highway 161, Irving 75039-2402.

 There are two buildings: the 5-story NEC structure (with 3-story annex), and the 9-story AAA structure. The meeting is in the NEC building. Park in the south lot and come in on the south side of the building (facing 114 and under the NEC sign). The taller of the two buildings is AAA - you don’t want that entrance.

 
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Date/Time:Tuesday, July 8, 2008 6:30-7:30 PM
Host: Dawn Fichtner - ReachLocal, Inc.
Topic: Captivate 3 process workflow discussion
Discussion Leader: Leslie Bivens
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The Captivate DFW Group is back in action! Changes to this site are coming soon. In the interim, check out our 2008 Meeting Schedule and make plans to attend!

That was fast!

Here is a link to the press release.

Is everyone upgrading to CP3 or are you completely satisfied with the current release?

More to come…

Walt

Copying and pasting clipart from Powerpoint into Captivate is a quick and easy way to add images to your project. However, there are two things you need to remember:

1. Open the copied image in Captivate and change the transparency layer from black to white. The WMF image copies with a white background but the images transparency property is black. The image background is transparent in the development mode but not when you publish it.
2. The WMF format is not editable in Captivate. If you want an editable image, use Snagit or some other screen capture utility to grab the image before importing it into Captivate.

If you are the “try before you buy” type, here is your chance to check out most of the Adobe Creative Suite 3 products and editions. Click here to view the available trials.  You can download individual applications, or order a trial DVD of a suite for $10 U.S.

Philip Hutchison (pipwerks.com) has written a great tutorial showing how to use Actionscript within Captivate SWFs to communicate with a Flash container. The tutorial includes diagrams, samples, and source files. Read about it here.

When the Advanced Interaction screen is open and you click an interaction (button, entry text, etc.), the selected interaction is highlighted on the storyboard menu. This is an easy way to verify which object’s parameters are being set, when you have more than one interaction on a page.

Cannot select a Menu item in Captivate 2:
After using Captivate 2 for some time, I noticed that the Captivate menu sometimes will flash instead of displaying when you click on any of the menus. I had been saving a closing my project until I got this tip from Walt Stewart. When the menu will only flash and not allow you to make a selection, open the project library and click any of the library objects. The menu will now remain displayed until you select an option or click somewhere else on the screen.