Captivate 7 Simulation Recording Question

I'm using Captivate 7 to record a simulation requiring my learner to drag a message from one area and drop it into another. When I view the recording, all works well except the part where the learner is to actually drag and drop the message...that piece plays like a demo. Can a drag and drop simulation be recorded in Captivate 7 allowing the learner to drag the designated message to the designated area?

You will have to create that slide from scratch, could be done with the D&D
wizard. Dragging and scrolling during capture always results in FMR-slides.

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Example. With one click, print the Excel spreadsheet.
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Second question: if it is possible, how?
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To my knowledge only Question Slides may be part of a Pool. As you are talking about Animations, my guess is that it won't be possible because of the way the developers have structured Captivate and the Question Pooling feature.
Perhaps others have a different viewpoint.
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QUESTION: Captivate closes while recording

I am using Captivate 4. I am trying to record a training simulation of our web based application. When I reach the point in our application where you have to browse to a file to upload it, Captivate 4 stops recording and prompts me to save the project,which would be okay if I was done, but I'm not. Is there some type of setting I need to change. I've seen other Captivate projects that contain this same type of action, so I can't understand why mine won't record this action.
Thank you.

Hi there
Sure sounds like Captivate doesn't like something about what is happening, eh?
So here's a thought. You have captured all you need up to that point, no? I suppose I might then try adjusting Captivate so it's in Manual recording mode. This is similar to driving a stick shift. Try launching the recording process and at that point Captivate should produce the first screen capture but that's it. Assuming it doesn't close on you, proceed very slowly. It will be up to you to press the Print Screen key to force a screen capture for each screen change. Hopefully that will allow you to continue and grab the remaining screens.
If for some reason that doesn't work, the only other option to try would be a Full Motion Recording (FMR) and record that specific segment using FMR.
Cheers... Rick
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Adobe programs dont work with Captivate to capture/record

Hi there.
I've had problems with Captivate capturing screen recording from Adobe Premier cs5, where it would not show any of the video which was being edited. I figured this was just the video issue and worked around it by just not showing the video preview for the small thing i was demonstrating, it wasnt a big deal if it was just isolated to this.
Next I was using Adobe Photoshop and setting up a little demo on how to fill objects. Captivate did not pick up the cursor, it shows a ugly black box.
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If anyone knows any delevopers for captivate on here, can they PLEASE look at this right now as im slapping myself wondering why this is the case and how im going to plan to do all the simulations half with camtasia and half with captivate on Adobe products we use at my work.....
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http://www.blcstudents.com.au/tutorials/wp/?page_id=35 its at the bottom of the page.
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Ben.

Just out of curiosity, are you able to modify the mouse cursor AFTER doing the captures once you're back in Captivate editing them?
For example, are you able to select the mouse for the slides where it added this wierd square cursor, then choose the normal arrow cursor from the Properties tabl > Options accordion?
Or are you able to delete the mouse from these same slides, and add it back again, and then select the cursor you want?
Have you found that there is nothing you can do to change this particular cursor on these slides?

Captivate 4 Automatic Recording does not record application

Windows 7 64bit, Captivate 4.01. Run as Administrator. Create Project>Software Simulation>Record Application - Microsoft Excel 2010. Automatic Recording selected - mode doesn't matter, but Demonstration and Assessment checked. Start recording with red button. All settings default. After lots of moving around, typing, clicking, etc. in window, I can't stop recording using End key - I have to click on the CP icon in the Notification Area icon to stop recording. The resulting project is a single slide without any of the actions recorded. To repeat - I did start Captivate by right clicking on the desktop icon and selecting Run as Administrator.
Anyone resolve this issue? I did try searching the forum before posting, but maybe it isn't IE9 compatible as I got 0 results - even when searcing for "Captivate 4 Windows 7"

Captivate 4 CAN sometimes work fine on Windows 7 64bit systems. It does on mine, but not all users report this success.
Before you go and buy Cp 5.5 you might as well try the different compatibility settings to see if one of them will work for you.
Another thing to be aware of is that Captivate doesn't always capture every single screen event for some programs. So with the project you found resulted in a single slide, were you hearing the camera shutter sound at regular intervals? If not, it may be simply that Captivate wasn't "seeing" the events on screen and you might have needed to do more manual captures to get everything.

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FreeCT wrote:
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I have been using Camtashia and recently move to another
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Captiveate and I am getting very aggrevated! Captivate will not
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Hi Tmy8ster and welcome to our community
No doubt you are frustrated if you are expecting Captivate to
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> converting tooltips into rollover and using full motion
recording option, in
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>
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Captivate 6 Software Simulation Recording Quality

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Ok, I just tried it in a new project and think there might be a wider problem here.
I copied the first (target) and last slide into a new project. I added a slide in between.
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Captivate 4 not recording mainframe emulator demo

I had used previous versions of Captivate to record simulations of our proprietary mainframe system. Since upgrading to 4 a couple years back, I am no longer able to get Captivate to recognize the keystrokes or the screen changes. It captures the first screenshot only and then nothing. Could there be an option/property I have set wrong?
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Hi there
Is this really the same question you asked a year ago?
Click here to view that thread
And if it is the same issue, is it one you never resolved or is it one you resolved for a while and it has since returned?
Sometimes the answer is simple. Perhaps you turned off Automatic recording and have shifted into Manual mode.
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