Modifying default Project Properties? (Mouse click sound, etc.)

Am I able to configure default properties?
E.g. On every slide of every software demo I create, I have to change the following:
- Slide quality - High
- Highlight Box timing - Rest of slide.
- Mouse click sound - Custom
- Show mouse click - Custom
- etc.
Obviously, this is the most time consuming process and it increases my time investment 20-fold.
Have I overlooked something? Google & searching has been no help...which makes me feel like I'm the only one with the problem...which leads me to believe I'm doing something wrong!

If you open the Edit > Preferences dialog without having any project open, then go to Defaults > Object Defaults, you can set up some of the things you want. For example, you can change the default duration of highlight boxes. But this doesn't allow you to configure the mouse or slide settings the way you want for all projects.
I think your best option is just to set up a Captivate template with all the slides done the way you want and use that to initiate each project.

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I also tried to create a new project with buttons and the mouse click still does not play.
I double checked in the properties for the button and the box for "Disable Click Sound" is NOT checked, so I know that this is not the problem.
I am using Windows XP SP3.
Any advice on how to correct this is greatly appreciated!
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Reduce Volume of Mouse Click Sound

Any way to easliy reduce the volumne of the clickk sound from the mouse without recording a new mouse sound?

Easy way...no. What I had to do was edit the actual sound files for the single and double clicks. The files are mp3's and are located in:
Adobe Captivate 5 --> Gallery --> Mouse --> Click Sounds
You can open the mp3's in any simple wave/audio editor, select the waveform, and decrease the volume. I brought mine down about 3 decibels.
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Hope this Helps.
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How do I globally uncheck the property "mouse click sounds" under the captions section

I am doing software simulation and it produces a large number of slides. I want to remove the mouse click sounds. Is there another way to do that other than
select each and every slide and uncheck the "Mouse Click Sound" checkbox?
Adobe you need to provide that option in preferences!

So I tried it...here are the screen shot. I do have the updated Captivate 7....So you can see they are selected and I used the timeline to bring up the mouse clicks box.
I then unchecked the the 'Mouse Click Box'
I clicked on the slide...and this may be where it goes wrong. I did try to exit by hitting Enter, but that didn't work. I had to click somewhere on the project.
Here you can see that slide 2 has the "Mouse Click Sound" box still checked.
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CP - Mouse click sound

Hi All,
I am learning how to use captivate and have created a video, I want the mouse click sound, but I can't get it to work.
Can you give me any pointers please?
Thanks

Hi KeithJohnson
Sure, just double-click the mouse object in either the
Timeline or on your slide. There on the Options tab is an option to
assign the click sound.
Cheers... Rick

Mouse click sounds

I searched the topics and was unable to locate the answer.
WHat I am looking for is this:
Is there a way to switch the sound of a NEXT and/or BACK (or
whatever button) from the click to a custom sound?
I know I can go into the GALLERY / MOUSE / CLICKSOUNDS and
copy the sound file I want and then rename it.
That would work, but I would really like to change it on ever
3rd or 4th slide's next or Back buttons.
I have tried changing the audio properties on the button but
double click the button and then picking the AUDIO tab and
assigning a sound....but, what that does is when it gets to the
slide, it plays the sound without picking the button.
Thanks in advanced!
dog!

Hi defcon789
Most of the time a button or click box is programmed to jump
to a specific slide as opposed to continuing. Assuming that
continuing is okay, you could insert an invisible object with the
desired click sound attached. Then clicking the button would result
in the desired click sound. I suppose even if you are jumping to a
different slide this would be possible by inserting a blank slide
preceding the slide where you want to link. Then link to that slide
instead. Then assign the sound to that slide so it plays just
before the desired slide appears.
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Mouse Click Sound

Hello, I am trying to create a simple flash game which
involves shooting. I have scoured the internet for a couple of days
to try to find a way to make a gun sound when the mouse button is
clicked, but to no avail. Could someone please point me in the
right direction. I am using Flash CS3. Thanks for your time,
Dave.

dindelus,
> I have very little 2.0 knowledge and even less 3.0, so I
> am using Action Script 2.0 for this.
What you'll need, in any case, is an instance of the Sound
class -- and
I'll show you the AS2 syntax. Presumably, you already have an
instance of
your button symbol (i.e., and instance of the Button class)
on your Stage.
That button will need an instance name so that ActionScript
can pick it out
of the crowd. We're going to assign a function to the
Button.onPress event
of that instance, and that function is going to invoke
Sound.start() on your
sound instance.
As an aside, the following realization may actually help you
in terms of
reading through the ActionScript 2.0 (and 3.0) Language
Reference. Just
about everything in ActionScript may be described as an
object, and objects
are defined by (usually) namesake classes. Classes are
effectively blue
prints for the objects they define, and you'll tend to find
one or more of
the following three categories when you look up a class:
properties
(characteristics of the object), methods (things the object
can do), and
events (things the object can react to).
So to start, here's an instance of the Sound class.
var s:Sound = new Sound();
At this point, that arbitrarily named variable, s, is an
access point
for all the functionality described by the Sound class, which
among other
things, contains an attachSound() method. This allows you to
pull sound
assets from the Library at runtime, so first,
right-click/Command-click on
your asset in the Library, choose Linkage from the context
menu, and give
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kind of nickname
ActionScript uses to pull the asset to the Stage. Then use
that Linkage id
as the parameter of your method:
s.attachSound("gunshot");
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class and
associated it with a sound clip. Now for the button event:
myButton.onPress = function():Void {
s.start();
Badda bing, that's it.
Now, you might want to have the sound appear without the
necessity of a
button beneath it -- though you could, certainly, put a large
button over a
large portion of the Stage. If you just want a free-for-all
sense of
make-the-sound-no-matter-where-the-mouse-is-clicked ... that
might go like
this:
var s:Sound = new Sound();
s.attachSound("gunshot");
var listener:Object = new Object();
listener.onMouseDown = function():Void {
s.start();
Mouse.addListener(listener);
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generic Object
instance acts as liaison for the Mouse.onMouseDown event --
which kind of
makes sense, as you can't really have an instance of the
Mouse class (the
Mouse class represents interactions with the mouse). Again, a
function is
assigned to a relevant event -- you'll see this event if you
look up the
Mouse class entry of the ActionScript 2.0 Language Reference
-- and the
Mouse class itself is subscribed to this Object (named
listener, by chance)
thanks to its addListener() method.
David Stiller
Co-author, Foundation Flash CS3 for Designers
http://tinyurl.com/2k29mj
"Luck is the residue of good design."

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I try to configure automatically the "Symbole für bedingte Deaktivierung" for a project.I have no idea how to translate it. I've attached a screenshot.
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Set default value with mouse click?

Hi guys,
I'm new enough to LabVIEW, and indeed this forum, so I hope you can help. I'm guessing it's a simple problem, but I can't figure out how to do it.
I've got a cRIO taking in 4 analog voltages. Each voltage is from a linear potentiometer which is measuring suspension displacment on a Formula Student race car.
I have a simple formula set up to convert input voltage to displacment. I've set up a table of inputs which allows me to set maximum, minimum,(from previous sensor calibration) and "stationary" value of each sensor.
The "stationary" value is what the sensor should be reading when the car is stopped. This is then used as a baseline for either positive or negative displacments.
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What I would like, is a "calibrate" button which I can press that sets the "stationary" value to whatever the current input voltage is. This way, I wouldn't have to reset 4 values each time the car is modified.
If you have any ideas on how to do this, please let me know.
I'll attach my VI once I get back to the laptop where it is saved!
Thanks,
Kevin Irving
Solved!
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Kevin,
As you have discovered you cannot change the default values on a running VI.
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Modifying project properties of custom project system

I have tried to create a custom project system by walk through https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/cc512961.aspx and succeeded. And now I want to modify the project properties of this created project system. The second part of this walk
through is guiding to create property pages for solution properties. (Solution Explorer-> Right Click on Solution and select Properties) I don't want to modify solution properties, I need to customize project properties (Solution Explorer-> Right Click
on Project and select Properties) by adding new tabs and other items for my custom project system. Please help me as soon as possible.

Hello,
you can't customize the project properties in VS (for any version), you have 2 solutions :
1- You must develop addin for visual studio
From MSDN :>
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/80493a3w.aspx
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/5abkeks7.aspx
From code project (3 Tutorials) :>
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/292073/Extending-Visual-Studio-Part-1-Creating-Code-Snipp
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/324611/Extending-Visual-Studio-Part-Creating-Addins
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/365680/Extending-Visual-Studio-Part-3-Item-Templates
2- you can customize projefct properties from project file, in the links below you find how to create and customize project file :
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc175544(v=vs.90).aspx
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/27931/Customizing-csproj-files-to-autogenerate-AssemblyI
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/31257/Custom-Tools-Explained

I can't hear a mouse click

Hey,
On a slide, after you insert the mouse, isn't there something I should do to hear the mouse click. I've already got all of the buttons checked under the mouse properties(show mouse click and mouse click sound). Now, shouldn't I simply hear a click at the end of the mouse object? Is there some kind of global setting I am missing?
What gives?
Thanks.
Jeff

Hi there
Mouse click sounds exist as an audio file and are not recorded. While I'm not one of the Captivate Development team, it is my understanding that all that is recorded are the starting and ending points as well as the pointer in use.
Of course Mouse object provides click sounds. The evidence is in the dialog.
A bit of a mystery as to why you may not be hearing them. Any chance of sharing your project so one of us may see first hand?
Cheers... Rick
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Why the click sound is not working after publishing?

Hello all.
I have around 190-200 slides in my project. I want my mouse object to have the click sound in some slides and without click sound in rest of the slides.
Using its properties panel I have added click sound for the required slides. But after publishing the project I am unable to hear the click sound. When I refresh the page I could hear the sound. Why does this happen?
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Kartik.P

Hi,
Do you face this problem even with a single slide project? Because this seems to be working fine at our end.
Also, is it an upgraded project, single click or double click?? Does it happen only on few slides or all slides with mouse click sound.
Thanks,
Sikandar

Mouse clicks and keystrokes

When I edit mouse click in mouse properties, it
doesn't always make the sound when it's checked (ticked), and
sometimes makes a mouse click sound when it's not ticked. If you
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3: press CMD-X to cut the line.
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