Captivate Buttons

Sorry - I 'm a new user and should have read all the messages
before I sent this - It appears others have asked this same
question
Captivate 3 has a great feature for braching frames, but here
is the problem I have
Lets say I have a 5 slide file, and slide 5 is a HELP screen
The other 4 slides have a buton to GoTo frame 5 - that
functions is available in Captivate
Slide 5 needs to have a button that nees to take you back the
slide you came from
The Back button in captivate just takes you back on slide
It says you can put Javascript on the button but I donlt know
javascript
Can some one suggest a solution to ny Back to Previous issue?
WM

The easiest thing for your users would be for you to have one
button on your help page. This can easily be done by copying your
help page once for each page refers to it. Have each one of these
copies be the target of one "Need Help" button. Then have the
"Back" button on each page target the page from which the user
navigated. By doing this you will only have to have one button on
each version of the help page. This should be very easy to do. Your
only long-term problem is that if you ever need to update your help
page, you will have to update all five copies of it.

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On another forum (
http://www.trap17.com/index.php/javascript-close-window_t29518.html),
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unsuccessful. Here is the code that I believe SHOULD work, which
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--Daniel

One of the problems is that IE/Windows will give you a
security warning when you try to close a browser window from
another object. The basic rule is, a command from JavaScript to
Javascript will close without a security warning. Therefore, you
must place the Javascript code - a function - out in your HTML
page. It just sits there - and then within Captivate - you call
that function - and it executes - without an error message :) Note
- the code below works flawlessly - but depending on your system -
i.e. in IE - you might receive a warning for running JavaScript.
You need to run it from a web server from a
http:// address to make this work 100% with no
user actions required.
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<script type="text/JavaScript">

</script>
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does not register the key press in the first instance, but does it
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Mohsin Nabi

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Sounds like a focus issue. There is a variable you may want
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here.
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1. Let's assume there is no way it could be a 'tab' issue
causing you to lose focus. In this case, make sure that your click
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(sometimes this causes issues if they are placed at 0.0). Also,
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tee. Once you have the text entry box on the slide, shrink it as
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typing in, you will be fine.
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HTH,
Doug

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No, if you cover up with text, and user clicks on text, the rollover state will not function.
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