Cap2 - Cannot Mouse Drag (extend) items in the Timeline

After Audio has been added to my Captivate file I can no
longer use the mouse to adjust the length of items (captions,
mouse, slide) in the timeline. If I select the item and use the
SHIFT + RIGHT ARROW it will adjust the length. I cannot use the
mouse. I'm WAY faster when I can use the mouse.
Is this a bug? When will it be fixed? This is happening on
every single one of my files, consistently.
Thanks,
Steve

Hi sslack88
I was just now looking at one of my Captivate movies and I
think I may have possibly noticed the behavior you are speaking of.
Here's what I did:
Setup:
Create a blank movie with a single slide. Add three text
caption objects. Adjust the total slide time to perhaps 6.1
seconds. Drag each of the text captions so the end is at 6 seconds.
Now nudge the total slide time back .1 second so the captions are
each ending at the slide end. (I didn't simply drag the captions to
the end of the slide time, as when each would reach the end of
slide time, they would automatically anchor to the end of the
slide)
Now, I simply positioned the mouse pointer at the end of one
of the captions and attempted to drag to increase its display time.
Nothing. End of the caption time refused to budge. I tried the same
in Captivate 1 and could drag freely. So I think I now understand
the issue.
But I may have a workaround for you!
Instead of positioning the cursor and simply attempting to
drag the end of the object to increase the display time, FIRST drag
it slightly to the LEFT to DECREASE the display time. Once I do
this, I can then freely drag to the RIGHT to INCREASE the display
time!
Hopefully this helps... Rick

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