Failure Text for Darg and Drop

Question

I have programmed a drag and drop option in the Captivate 6.1 version. It works perfectly. But now, I want to have a failure text display for the wrong attempts. I have selected the 'Failure Caption' under the ACTION properties. But still the failure caption is not displayed for wrong clicks.
Is there a way or other settings to make this display?
Thanks,
Soumya

Answer 1

Here's the scenario: The user is trying to complete a software simulation. In the simulation, the user needs to drag and drop an object to a particular place. When the user correctly drags and drops the object, the simulation will progress to the next slide.
In order to create this functionality, would I have to create an "incorrect" drop zone for all the areas of the screen outside the "correct" place?
To further clarify,
Here's what we've done to simulate this...
Create an image of the component and set it to be the drag source.
Create a four highlight boxes, set to be drop targets.
One highlight box is set to accept the drag source and to take no action when the drag source reaches the drop target.
The other three highlight boxes are set to not accept any objects and to show a "failure caption box" when an object is dropped there.
The Correct Answer is set for the drag source to reach the correct drop target.
The Action for this drag and drop interaction is
On Success: Go to the next slide.
On Failure: Continue (have also tried go to previous slide)
Attempts are set to 3.
Auto Submit Correct Answers has been tested both selected and deselected.
These are the issues we are seeing...
The user cannot fail the interaction. If the user places the drop source in an incorrect drop target, the user receives a failure notice. If the user does this three times, the simulation should progress through the rest of the screen (or to the previous slide, depending on the failure programming). It does not. The user can "fail" the drag and drop interaction as many times as they want and nothing will happen.
The three "extra" highlight boxes are a workaround we are trying to get the failure message to appear when the user drops the drag source in a space not the desired drop target. Ideally one could set the "Action" to...
On Success: Go to the next slide.
On Failure: Continue
Attempts: 3
Select the Failure Caption box
     ...and the user would see the failure caption when they place the drag source in the wrong spot>after three incorrect attempts the "On Failure" action would take effect. (at least this is what happens with click boxes...)
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