I received an email from a Captivate developer last week wanting to know if it was possible to create click boxes into any other shapes than the boring old squares or rectangles. Interesting question, and the answer is: "Nope." When it comes to click boxes, the shape of the box has always been rectangle or square.
Bummed out? Don't be. In Captivate, things aren't always black and white. While click boxes cannot be made into complex shapes, you can accomplish much of what you can do with a click box by using a Rollover Slidelet instead–and Rollover Slidelets can be redrawn on the fly into complex shapes.
Insert and Reshape a Rollover Slidelet
To insert a Rollover Slidelet, choose Insert > Standard Objects > Rollover Slidelet.
Upon inserting the Rollover Slidelet, you will have two objects on your slide: the Rollover Slidelet and a Slidelet.
To make the Rollover Slidelet behave like a click box, right-click the Rollover Slidelet and choose Properties. On the Rollover Slidelet tab, select Navigate from the "If the user clicks inside the Rollover Slidelet" area. Then you can click the desired navigation from the On Click drop-down menu.
If your goal is to make the Rollover Slidelet behave like a click box, you'll probably want to ensure the Slidelet doesn't appear on the slide when the customer clicks the Rollover Slidelet.
Right-click the Slidelet and choose Properties.
On the Options tab, deselect Visible (remove the check mark from the box) and then click OK.
And that's that… ummmm, except for the complex shape part that was what you were trying to create all along. To take care of that final chore, simply right-click the Rollover Slidelet and choose Edit Points.
Drag the points around to suite your needs–or your shape. When you click outside the shape, the Rollover Slidelet will take on the its new form.
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