Captivate Buggy Bugs in Bugland

Captivate reorders layers, discards backgrounds, refuses to
save changes, and generally fights me every step of the way. Is
there a more mature release of this product on the way?

Hi jbarker3887
Keep in mind that we have no clue as to what the code has
been through. As fellow Adobe Community Expert Steve said, it's
logically version 6 I believe. It began life (to my knowledge) as a
product called FlashCam and was sold by Nexus Concepts. Then eHelp
corporation bought the technology and rebranded it as RoboDemo.
They had the reigns from version 2 to version 5. Then Macromedia
bought the technology from eHelp corporation and rebranded it as
Macromedia RoboDemo. After this, they soon created Captivate. So
who knows how much of the original code exists? This could account
for the issues. Additionally, as this seemed to be a product with a
niche Macromedia felt they needed to purchase as opposed to create
from scratch, this could account for why it doesn't quite "fit"
with any product Macromedia ever produced.
Cheers... Rick

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Abu_Luke wrote:
I'm creating an online orientation course that includes voice. The problem I am running into is that there are a few slides that are publishing with the audio from other slides in the module. For example, slide 34 plays the audio from slide 89 when published. When I check the audio component in Edit mode it plays the correct audio. Am I doing something incorrect or is this just another bug, of the many, in Captivate (v3)?
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