Captivate Doesn't Capture Screen Toast

Hello,
We developed an application that notifies users of changes with a screen toast. We went to use captivate to begin developing training material and Captivate does NOT capture the screen toast??!! I'm doing full screen captures which works great as it captures mouse action, the entire desktop, audio, everything BUT the screen toast???
What am I missing??
JB

Hi again
Thanks for the example. Almost thought you didn't supply one as it wasn't visible straight away. Then noticed you elected to attach instead of using the Camera. But at least we can see what you are talking about!
So you taught an old dog a new term. I'd never heard of Screen Toast prior to today.
I'm wondering if what you are seeing is occurring in a "layered" window. I don't believe Captivate captures these beasties. You also see it when you try to capture some full motion clips. As these sometimes appear in layered windows, all you get in Captivate is a blank area where you expected to see the video.
Assuming you are able to capture the area using something like SnagIt, you could insert the "toast" as a separate image object and time accordingly or possibly merge into the background after properly placing it.
You should also report this as a bug to Adobe. (Link for doing that is in my sig line.)
Cheers... Rick
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