Playback Control placement

Forgive me if this is a silly question, but I'm a newbie.
Is there any way to place playback controls somewhere other
than the preset options? I'd like to have my playback controls
"float" over my screen so that they are near the caption box.

Hello fahzzy,
No sorry, you cannot float playback controls in Captivate. If
you own Flash and understand ActionScript code then you might be
able to create a custom playback control that can float over you
screen. As a starting point you might like to refer to the Flash
Playback Controls which can be located via the following path -
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Captivate
2\Templates\PlaybackFLA
Regards,
Mark

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Just thinking about this from a logical standpoint.
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