Question about Visited slide variables

Hi All,
I have seen an effect in a scorm course that I would like to replicate, unfortunatly it was not in Captivate.
I would like a button to contain a table of contents to appear when you hover over a button/image. Next to the title of the slide I would like a tick to show if the user has visited the slide or not.
There are 20 slides in my module and to represent this I would like 20 small squares at the bottom of each slide. Is it possible for them each to be a button that a) takes user to corresponding slide, b) Is red if it is the slide they are looking at, and c) Is blue if they have visited it as now they can technically jump to any slide.
Thanks in advance everybody.
Chris

Hi Chris
Aside from using the Table Of Contents (TOC) feature, Captivate doesn't really offer anything like this.
If you want to be adventurous, you could construct something like that using images and variables and Advanced Actions to hide and show the images.
Cheers... Rick
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