North Texas Captivate User Group

When my Captivate 2 files are launched from the LMS/CMS, they are presented with minimal browser chrome - no browser toolbars, no buttons, no address bar, etc. However, when you preview in Captivate, it presents with full browser chrome. I have been searching for a way to preview my projects directly from Captivate so that they appear the same way our CMS presents, with minimal browser chrome, and finally came up with a solution, using a little bit of embedded JavaScript in a special slide at the beginning of my project.  Solution and explanation below the fold…

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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.

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.

From Paul Dewhurst’s site:

One of the Problems Captivate used to have was that if you used transparent captions then the text in the published movie would look blurred, In captivate 2 you can fix this problem and have nice crisp text all you need to do is select #C0C0C0 as the highlight colour and highlight part of the text (you can select just one character) this makes the text in the published movie display nice and crisp and the highlight is transparent