Counting clicks in Captivate 7.

Is there a way to count the number of clicks a learner did to accomplish a task in Captivate 7? EG: It should take 5 clicks to complete a task but the learner did 10 clicks. I want to know that to evaluate how well they did.

That will work, but there are some considerations…
The cursor will always be a hand (or whatever it changes to when it’s over a clickable object), unless you modify the properties of the cursor or the big rectangle.
If you program distractors, you’d want to have another multiple-line advanced action which would respond to the incorrect click as well as increment the v_clicks variable.
This will only allow there to be 2 objects- so if you wanted there to be a series of events for the user to complete on one slide, this would not capture all the clicks appropriately, it would not account for clicks on objects other than the body of the slide. For example, if you had a drop-down menu, a text box and a check box that needed to be selected, and then the user should click a button, you wouldn’t be able to count any clicks in the menu, text box or checkbox… only those that landed ‘outside’ of those objects. You could build some workarounds, but they’ll get more complicated (ie. when menu = something-other-than-desired-selection, increment the v_clicks variable.
You could get around the multiple-step interaction problem above if you have multiple slides, with only one object per slide… but then you’ll force the learner into a linear path for completing the process, and a lot of times a user can make selections in any order.
Of course there always workarounds, but it just gets more and more complicated.
Lieve, clickable objects have a “number of attempts” property, which suggests that CP is tracking the number of off-target “attempts” – is there a way to harness that to track the number of off-target clicks??

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Turn OFF Accessibility in Preferences (done)
Add a click box somewhere in the movie with Right Click set as the event to trigger some action. (done)
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UPDATE
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Message was edited by: DPCROW

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Hi jimclennon and welcome to our community
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