Covering text on Word Search widget
Hi,
I am using the word search widget and ther is some faint text on the bottom that saus "click the first then the last letter of the work to ma e a selection"
I am trying to get wrid of that so I can put the instruction text elsewhere on the slide, but the words stay visible, even over some buttons we have got in the fram. Sending to bck doesnt work either. I have also tried covering the text with an image (of background), thenm grouping the widget with the image on front, but then that covers the buttons, even if I use send backwards...
Is ther a way if editing that instruction text so I can get rid of it?
Cheers
Rossco
Hi Rossco
I saw your replies only now as I am in India. Glad that you figured out a way.
To answer your question on how to assign an image to smartshape, you can go to Fill and Stroke accordion and click the Fill dropdown list. Here you have an option to browse and select a custom image.
Sreekanth
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There is already the big confusion: why are there Widgets (they still are included) and Learning Interactions that both are pointing to widgets (hence the generic name), just to make the difference between those widgets that are SWF only and those that are compatible also with HTML5 output (the so-called Learning Interactions or Interactions)? Terminology is to say it very diplomatic, bit 'inconsistent'.
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Another blog post shows all the events that can trigger an action: Events and (advanced) Actions - Captivate blog
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Think I have spent already too much time answering, to try to fill in the gaps in the documentation. I could write multiple articles on Interactions, want to provide more information but free things are not considered valuable at all. Why should I bother -
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Now see the second screenshot below for what it looks like in preview. It looks the same if you SCORM it and load into an LMS. -
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score. Bit the word search is static, no way to attach a score. And even
for those games that are interactive, the score is not given based on the
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Word Search Widget Captivate 6
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Delete or modify tip text in Word Search
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Ia happens mostly in MS Office applicatioms, such as Excel and Word.
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I am using 10G DB + 10G Form Builder.
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I want to do MULTIPLE WORD OR SINGLE WORD SEARCH at this item through FORM.
I've tried by creating the following NON Database Items on the form:
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I've also tried using this in the POST-TEXT-ITEM at multiline_search_text_item:
select table.database_item into :multiline_result__text_item from table where multiline_search_text_item = :multiline_search_text_item;
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GauravWhat you want to do is not clear.
The query you wrote will select records where the table contains exactly what has been written in the search item. You can use LIKE and a wildcard search to find records which contain the search text:
select table.database_item into :multiline_result__text_item
from table
where multiline_search_text_item LIKE '%'||:multiline_search_text_item||'%';
You can use UPPER to make this case insensitive:
select table.database_item into :multiline_result__text_item
from table
where Upper(multiline_search_text_item) LIKE Upper('%'||:multiline_search_text_item||'%');
But I suspect you want either to match the individual words in the search text to individual words in the database multiline field, or find records where the search words appear (not necessarily as whole words). In that case, check out the following:
-- set up a table (multiline and various whitespaces)
DROP TABLE t;
CREATE TABLE t AS
SELECT
ROWNUM rn,
owner||Chr(9)||object_name||Chr(160)||subobject_name||' '||object_id||' '||
data_object_id||Chr(10)||object_type||' '||created||' '||last_ddl_time||' '||
timestamp||' '||status||' '||temporary||' '||generated||' '||secondary AS col
FROM all_objects;
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CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION string_to_tab(
p_string IN VARCHAR2) RETURN string_tab IS
l_string LONG DEFAULT
RTrim(regexp_replace(p_string,'[[:space:]]+',' ')) || ' ';
l_data string_tab := string_tab();
n NUMBER;
BEGIN
LOOP
EXIT WHEN l_string IS NULL;
n := InStr(l_string, ' ');
l_data.extend;
l_data(l_data.Count) := LTrim(RTrim(SubStr(l_string, 1, n - 1)));
l_string := SubStr(l_string, n + 1);
END LOOP;
RETURN l_data;
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-- a match in the multiline field (as a word or part of a word), so SYS
-- matches to MDSYS and SYSTEM
SELECT DISTINCT
t.rn, t.col
FROM
t,
(SELECT column_value
FROM TABLE(CAST(string_to_tab('SYS INDEX') AS string_tab))) x
WHERE InStr(t.col,x.column_value) > 0;
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-- a match in the multiline field (as a word or part of a word), so SYS
-- matches to MDSYS and SYSTEM
SELECT rn, col FROM(
SELECT
t.rn, t.col, cnt_x, Count(*) cnt
FROM
t,
(SELECT column_value , Count(1) over(PARTITION BY 1)cnt_x
FROM TABLE(CAST(string_to_tab('SYS INDEX') AS string_tab))) x
WHERE InStr(t.col,x.column_value) > 0
GROUP BY t.rn, t.col, cnt_x
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t.rn, t.col
FROM
t,
(TABLE(CAST(string_to_tab(t.col) AS string_tab))) t2,
(SELECT column_value
FROM TABLE(CAST(string_to_tab('SYS INDEX') AS string_tab))) x
WHERE t2.column_value = x.column_value;
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t.rn, t.col, cnt_x, Count(*) cnt
FROM
t,
(TABLE(CAST(string_to_tab(t.col) AS string_tab))) t2,
(SELECT column_value , Count(1) over(PARTITION BY 1)cnt_x
FROM TABLE(CAST(string_to_tab('SYS INDEX') AS string_tab))) x
WHERE t2.column_value = x.column_value
GROUP BY t.rn, t.col, cnt_x
WHERE cnt = cnt_x;For your application you would replace 'SYS INDEX' with a variable (the search field). You can use upper() and wildcards for case insensitive & 'fuzzy' searches. You might need to modify the function so it removes other delimiters such as commas and colons. -
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