Questions of the Week

I'm preparing a Captivate training presentation that consists of slides with several fields that need to be explained to my customers. The lessons include a voice-over that explains each of the fields. However, our team has concluded that along with the voice-over, if the customer chooses to, he should be able to view the field description as a pop-up. This text caption/pop-up should appear when the user clicks on that particular field.
 
I am planning to use a click box for this purpose. However, I am unable to write a JavaScript that will work. Can you please help me with this?

 

Answer:

You can certainly attach JavaScripts to Captivate actions (buttons, click boxes, etc.). However, it seems to me that you're describing events best handled by Captivate's Rollover Slidelets (Insert > Rollover Slidelets). Using Slidelets, you can essentially insert a slide within a slide. The Slidelet can contain text captions and/or images and animation. And you can set the Slidelet to include navigation. I'd give Slidelets a try before resorting to JavaScripts.

 

 

I'm importing music into my first slide and would like to do it for a portion of my second slide before I start talking.  I would like the music to fade out on the second slide, but I can't seem to get it to do that.  I've increased the fade out time to 2 seconds, but it still just sounds like the music is getting cut off.  Any suggestions?

 

On the resulting Audio Editor, you can lower the volume for the audio on the slides as you choose.

 

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