Using the Timeline A major addition to Captivate is the Timeline. In many respects, you can regard the Timeline as a visual timing edit …
Previewing a Captivate File Having made all of your changes, you will most likely want to see the fruits of your labor. Here’s ho …
Transitioning from Demo to Simulation Mode The second part of this tutorial is where you say to the student “OK, now you do it. …
Adding a Navigation Button to a Slide Without something to hold the playhead in place, the user will see the text for a couple seconds …
Adding a Capture to an Existing Project Now that the transition slide is completed, you can concentrate on creating the simulation. Be …
Enabling User Input with Text Entry Boxes Text entry boxes are a great way to test knowledge. In Captivate, you not only provide the te …
Publishing Your Captivate File Captivate enables you to publish your file in a variety of forms ranging from executables that can be pl …
The New Restrictions There are two areas where a Macromedia Flash movie can retrieve other documents from a URL: Movie loading: A Macr …
Security Restrictions for Data Loading This section describes the only change that can prevent existing Macromedia Flash content from w …
Security Restrictions for Cross-Movie Scripting Cross-movie scripting occurs when one Flash movie loads another Flash movie using Movie …
Security Restrictions for LocalConnections A LocalConnection object allows two Macromedia Flash movies to communicate with each other, …
Location of Shared Objects and Settings The SharedObject class allows Macromedia Flash movies to create persistent, cookie-like data on …
Debugging Security Problems As we mentioned earlier in the section Security Restrictions for Data Loading, you can diagnose data-loadin …
Macromedia Captivate has proven itself as a tool for providing elegantly simple interactivity for product or software demonstrations. I …
Setting Up Your Captivate File First, you will start by building a Captivate quiz. For another example of how to create interactive qui …
Configuring the JavaScript Next, you will modify the HTML file that Captivate produced. The JavaScript in this file creates the e-mail …