Highlight box object moves to beginning of timeline

In Captivate 4, has anyone else had the problem with the highlight object in the toolbar moving to the beginning of the timeline after entering the properties and clicking OK? Very annoying, as I have to drag it back to where it was first being created each time. This didn't happen in versions 2 or 3...

Hi Trevor,
Adobe recently released an update for Adobe Captivate. Did you install that update? If no, you could get the update information from here
Please install this update and then try your scenario.
Manish
http://blogs.adobe.com/captivate

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I have this project where a slide shows a button in my application the
user should press.
I have this caption with the text "Clique no botão Entregar" and a highlight box with the option Fill outer area checked.
I want to know WHY the highligth box is always going to the upper level, even when my caption is placed over all objects.
This is what I want:
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This is what I got after publishing:
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Hi there
What you posted seems to imply that you just looked at the timeline and ensured the Caption is the top layer. That is totally different than adding a totally new element to the slide.
The thing is, somehow, internally the application has become confused with which object is the top layer. And by introducing a totally new object, it should reshuffle the layering. Then you can delete the original caption.
Now if that's what you did and things aren't working, my guess is that you will need to re-create the slide and ensure things are added in the appropriate order. Perhaps the slide has become corrupt.
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Mouse and highlights boxes

for some odd reason after i publish my project my mouse
cursor is always under my highlight boxes. On all of my slide
timelines my mouse is on the highest layer possible and my
highlight boxes are below it. anyone have any ideas as to why this
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aphexburn, I'm sorry to see that you have given up, but when
reading your last post, a single thought kept resonating with me.
800 slides? Assuming that this wasn't a mistyping and you
really meant 80 slides, I am amazed that you are surprised to have
had trouble!! Astounding!!
To others who might drop by this thread: A Captivate movie is
normally thought of as a project between 40 and 50 slides. Some
very large ones might be as large as 80 to 100, but a project that
size is against best practice. These are not written "standards"
but are recommendations of experts based on thousands of users'
sharing experiences, and the above numbers apply to
all versions.
One of the overlooked reasons for keeping Captivate movies to
a reasonable (shorter) length is because it is easier to go back
and make changes to a 40 slide movie than to a 80 slide movie. It
is easier to find the slide you want to work on, and easier to
apply changes to multiple slides without the "goof" of including
some you didn't mean to change after all (which is why "Apply to
All" can be a fatal trap if not used very carefully).
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product.
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Thanks for reading. This point is important to everyone, and
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this issue and let a single unhappy user mislead others, when all
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Screenshot below
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