Customize look of Interaction widgets

Is there a way to customize the new Interaction widgets in Captivate 7? Our client doesn't like blue but all the widgets have a blue style.

I don't know which Interaction you are using but have you cursored down under themes after selecting one? There are several different colors. There is also a custom button for changing some things.
HTH
Dave

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Interactive widgets on master slide

My understanding is that interactive widgets cannot go on master slides. Is this because they don't work or don't work consistently?
A co-worker of mine made this widget https://acrobat.com/#d=9N0LRqiAhOpCfzJB5mCUIg
The idea was to have play/pause functionality in a widget on a master slide. It works quite well in one Captivate project, but not another (both are Captivate 5 projects). It's a bit of a mystery.
If anyone wants to take a look, give it a try, or comment, I'd like to hear your input.

I'm not either. This widget does work, but sometimes you have to click it twice and we can't figure out why.
In the meantime, I am using the play button on the skin, but my preference would be something a little more customizable.

Using Google GWT to create (Dashcode) widgets for iBook Author I would like to embed interactive widgets in iBooks using iBookAuthor. The widgets in question started life in Java but GWT has allowed them to be converted to javascript and to run on web pa

I would like to embed interactive widgets in iBooks using iBookAuthor. The widgets in question started life in Java but GWT has allowed them to be converted to javascript and to run on web pages (for example, http://softoption.us/content/node/437 scroll to the bottom). In theory, iBookAuthor can bring in most html5, and much javascript. The technique is to wrap the html in a folder, with 2 extra files, a plist and a default png and then change the extension of the folder to ‘.wdgt’. This is the technique for making Dashboard widgets for the Mac, and Apple even have the Dashcode software to do it. So what you really do is to make a Dashboard widget, then iBookAuthor can import it. So far, so good. And some folk have been doing this, for example http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/2/prweb9242432.htm http://www.panophoto.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=64&t=10417&p=158330#p158423 However, if you start with GWT and create a single page with one button and a Hello World, compile it, and get the WAR file (I use Eclipse here)… the Safari browser and others will run it properly (even on an iPad). Then if you wrap it, a proper Dashboard widget is created, which runs properly on a Mac. Then if you go to iBookAuthor and put a custom widget in the Text, then drag it in. It is accepted by the text and shown as being there. However, if you use Preview to look at it on an iPad, it is gone (or was never there in the first place). Anyone any ideas on this? [And iBook Author seems to give no warnings.] The widget is at https://dl.dropbox.com/u/46713473/Test6.wdgt.zip I have bells and whistles that I’d like to get into an iBook!
Thanks for any insights.
Martin

I do have a little to add, which might help someone. Indeed, opening a blank page and dragging the widget straight in seems good in difficult cases. But, actually, I was also able to insert successfully from the Toolbar especially to blank pages. So, it may have been something to do with the columns and stuff like that. Anyway back then the insertion would show in iBooks Author but not in the Preview on the iPad. I moved on to actual Google Web Toolkit output javascript. Basically I had three at hand to try: a Hello World with a button which went straight it, one of moderate complexity, (for example with a built in Lisp interpreter), which also went straight in, and finally a more complex one that initially was rejected by iBook Author. Author complained that there was an unsupported media file (of course, Author does not tell you which one it is, that would be too easy). [Remember, this was a proper working Dashboard widget which could be installed on a Mac]. Among other things I had read remarks about .gif files. When looking through the GWT war directory at the actual javascript etc files, I noticed there were two gifs there one called ‘clear.cache.gif ‘ and a second one called ‘0F89659FF3F324AE4116F700257E32BD.cache.gif’. (Now, there is obfuscation so the numbers here may be different from case to case.) The clear.cache.gif did not seem to be anything special. But the other one is an animation. It is three little boxes that twinkle (rather like a waiting spinning cursor). So, I opened that file and saved it to itself (that picks the top frame of the animation and saves only that, leaving you with an unanimated gif). The resulting widget drags and drops into iBooks Author (and seems to work properly at a quick glance). So, if you are having trouble with ‘unsupported media files’ converting animated gifs into unanimated gifs might help in some cases.

Web Interaction widget not working.

I am having an issue with the "Web Interaction" widget. When I enter a link, the link shows a 404 error and does not display. however I have tested this link in multiple browsers and operating systems and have verified it to work in all of them. Any reason why it isn't showing in the widget?

Hi,
Regarding Web Analysis- I believe- It's a problem of JRE.
- Just remove/uninstall the JRE from your Currently installed Programs. You may want to reboot the m/c
- Open Web Analysis Studio in the Web browser. Now, since it can't find JRE, it'll set up the relevant JRE for you & you may continue using Web Analysis.
- Please note- Unless you've changed to a different one during configuration, Web Analysis operates on 16000 port.
Check the following regarding Workspace-
- Your service may be down, thus, throwing Network error
- You may've to re-configure Workspace. Start the service & wait for few mins. before opening Workspace.
- Natesh

Interaction (widgets) in masterslides

Hi there,
Can anyone tell me if it is possible to use interaction widgets in masterslides?? I'm trying to insert a 'dropdown' interaction into a masterslide.
Thanks for your help!
Greetz
Bart Sijm
Netherlands

Thanks for your help again!
So if I understand it correctly I can only insert a drop down menu WITH variable input in the masterslide? It is not possible to insert a 'template' dropdown menu in the masterslide, which i can fill in in the normal slides?
For my project I want to place a dropdown menu on a standard place in the masterslide. But every dropdown menu in the normal slides needs to have different input. I was hoping that would be possible in Captivate 7...
Greetz!
Bart Sijm
Netherlands

Web-object interaction/widget does not appear in published slideshow

I added the web-object interaction/widget using my notes from the instructions in the relevant Lynda.com video (as the Captivate 7 User Guide makes no mention of the web page widget, web-object widget, web object widget, web-object interaction, web-page interaction, web page interaction, or webpage interaction).
The web-object interaction, or web-object widget (or whatever you choose to call the thingie that should provide the user of the published project slideshow with direct interaction with a web page from within one of the slides), it sometimes works in preview; may have worked once when published; but otherwise does not appear on the slide.
On its not appearing in either the published HTML document or the SWF file:
--I had a Continue button on the slide, and tried removing that.
This did not help.
--Because the web-object interaction/widget automatically sets the slide's action on entrance to "Pause," I tried setting it to "No action" (thinking that the slide, being pause on entrance, might never get to the web-object widget/interaction).
This did not help.
--I thought that perhaps navigating in the slide show with various "Jump to slide" settings, I would watch it without navigation.
This did not help.
Any help will be appreciated.
Jeff

In the published folder, I noticed a SWF called stagewebview. I guess this file has got something to do with Web Object interaction. When we link to published HTML file, this SWF is getting called automatically. But in your case since you are linking to published SWF file, the web object interaction SWF is not getting called. So, is it not possible for you to link it to HTM file?
Sreekanth

How to Use an Image to Customize the Static Button Widget

Can I just get someone to help me figure out how to use an image to customize the static button widget, please?
I have tried using several different types of images, but none of them seem to actually change the appearance of the button.
Thanks!
Laura
Captivate 5.5

I tried to use the tools within the widget itself - it offers you the opportunity to use an image (see screenshot below).
I also opened it in Flash and tried to replace the images for one of the button styles there w/ my own, but in re-publishing the SWF from there I broke the widget. When I attempted to use the edited widget, there were no customization controls available after I inserted it (see screenshot two below).

Default settings in Interaction Widgets

Does anyone know of a way to remove a button from an Interaction widget in Captivate 6? This is a fantastic new feature but there seems to be no way to edit a default setting with respect to the number of button tabs. Buttons can be added but not removed, and that's it??

Sorry, never mind. I found it. Once again, Adobe makes things so obvious. For anyone searching, click on Tab and a will appear to the left. Click it and voila, the Tab dissappears.

Reducing tabs in the interaction widgets in captivate 6

Hi can someone tell me how to reduce the number of tabs in the interaction widgets. I am always presented with 4 with an option to increase when what I want to do is remove one or two of the buttons instead. Can someone please help as this is limiting the usefulness of these interactions for me. Thanks.

With the exception of the Process circle, for Accordion, Tabs... you can delete a label: go in edit mode for that label (double-clicking) and you'll get a big minus sign next to it that will allow to remove:

Localize interaction widgets in captivate 6

I'm using an English installation of Cp6 and would like to incorporate some of the standard captivate interaction widgets into lessons for high school students. However these lessons will have to be fully in Dutch and all of the widget parts need to be localized. The foremost parts (strings) can be edited into the right language from the design mode. But there are still some parts that can not be changed; for example in the word search interaction (see picture). Since the fla sources are not available to me these strings can not be changed. My question now is if I obtain a license for the Dutch version of Cp6 will i also get a fully translated set of interaction widgets? Or are there other work arounds I could use?
TIA for any answer!

There is no Dutch version of Captivate and localisation has never been considered very important IMO. Have been complaining already a lot about that. There are no Dutch TTS, translation of the TOC is cumbersome and translating those interactions is not possible. Please, add your voice to me and other international users (Dutch is also my native tongue) by entering feature requests. Only the requests that do get a lot of support will make it in future versions.
Lilybiri
My workaround is to add instructions in Dutch, either with a previous slide, or with a text caption or using Voice Over

Captions in Interactive Widget not displaying fully on the iPad in preview

Hi
I am using the Interactive Widget with overplay captions. They appear fine in iBook but only show the first 2 lines of copy on the iPad?
Any tips on how to tweak this to work the same on the ipad?
Thanks!

Found the answer:
Tip: If your labels are longer than a few lines, you can select “Show descriptions in sidebar” in the Widgetinspector to display them in an overlay on the widget’s left side.

Looking for a widget...

Hey everyone,
I was looking for a widget that related to fundraising in the sense of like a big thermometer that fills up as you get money. So ya something that allows me to keep track of money towards a certain goal...
Anyone?
Thanks
erik

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Who'd like to test a new Drag and Drop Interactive Widget?

It's taken about 6 months of every spare minute we could find but we're finally ready to do a round of Alpha testing for our new Drag and Drop Interactive Widget for Cp4 and 5. This post is to ask for a handful of volunteers to test the new widget over the next week creating drag and drop interactions in both Cp4 and Cp5.
If you've already tried our well-known Drag and Drop Lite Question Widget, but were a bit frustrated by the limitations that the quiz question format placed on your creativity, we think you'll be blown away by what this new Interactive Widget can do. It does everything the current question widget does, aside from the aspects that are unique to question types (Review Area, Retake Quiz, etc) plus a whole lot more. Due to the extra functionality, this widget has twice as much code as our last one.
Some of the features:
You can have as many widgets as you want on a single slide and each can be addressing a different drag and drop scenario.
You can reference the same drag and target objects from different widgets to create different.
Since they are interactive widgets, you can use the widget success/failure criteria to trigger Advanced Actions. This opens up a lot of possibilities for game interactions.
You can score each widget differently so that OnSuccess they will each report different scores for dragging the same objects. This means you can have Conditional Scoring and more than one correct answer for a given problem.
You can set one of the widgets to have its Preferences be used for all widgets on the slide so that you don't need to set all widget preferences individually, thus saving a lot of time.
You can set Preference Priority for each widget to configure which widgets will have "right of way" if there is a potential conflict in preferences. For example, if one widget wants one type of snapping behaviour on an object but another widget wants the same object to snap differently, the widget with the higher Preference Priority will dominate.
You can nominate other interactive objects (including clickboxes or other widgets) to act as Submit button and Clear button to create a simulated quiz question.
Since this widget is an Interactive widget, it also has the same advanced Pausing override behaviours we built into our Event Handler widget (http://www.infosemantics.com.au/eventhandler) So you can have users stay on the same slide playing with the drag and drop interaction for as long as they like without progressing to the next slide until they want to.
Plus other stuff I can't think of right now.
If you decide to volunteer to participate in this Alpha testing, please don't use this widget for any production Captivate projects you may have. The Alpha and Beta versions of the widget will be time-bombed to stop working after a couple of weeks so that we don't have buggy versions running around later.
As I said at the beginning, we only need a handful of testers, we need people using either Cp4 or Cp5, and you need to do this testing over the next week so that we can then address any issues you find and release a debugged Beta version for more testing.
Anyone wanna play?
If you do want to volunteer, send me a private message on this forum with your email address so I can send you a widget and instructions. We'll only be taking the first dozen or so people that are willing to contribute time and feedback.
Cheers,
Rod Ward

Hi Sandy,
If you hover the mouse over Rod's avatar, there is an e-mail address visible. For a private message; double-click on his avatar and you'll find the button private message in that dialog box,
Lilybiri

How Can I Remove Tabs That I Added in a Learning Interaction Widget?

Hello, I inserted a "Tabs" Learning Interaction widget into a Captivate 8 project I'm working on. Adding tabs is easy enough by simply hitting the plus button. But when I want to remove a tab, I can't for the life of me determine how. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks

When you double-click on a Tab button in the Interaction Properties, you'll see a minus sign that will allow you to delete that tab. Beware: you need a minimum of at least 2 tabs, maximum is 5 tabs.

Captivate 8.0 interaction widget pictures are distorted

All images get distorted when adding them to any interaction widgets (even when I upload them in 100X150 in size).
(BTW: I'm currently using the subscription version.)

Just logged it as a bug, I know the size by heart and with your help discovered that in the latest version of the learning interactions the indication is (again) wrong: both need a image that is a square. It doesn't have to be precisely 150x150 but must have a width/height ratio of 1/1.
I know that in the first release of those interactions, a similar faulty indication appeared for the Timeline interaction, was corrected in a patch. Now it is wrong both in Tabs and Timeline. Only the Accordion interaction needs a 1.5/1 for Width/Height. Sorry about that, I am just a user...

Customize look of Interaction widgets

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