Recording Drag and Drop

"Trying" to record a software simulation that involves
dragging and dropping. Captivate is only capturing my click on the
object and then my next click when I let go at the end - it isn't
showing the "dragging" part of the simulation. Any suggestions on
what I'm doing wrong.... (Using V 2.0.)

Hi there
Assuming I'm understanding the situation correctly it would seem that this is a Full Motion Recording (FMR). By that I don't mean you recorded the whole presentation using FMR. Normally Captivate shifts gears and records any clicks and drags as FMR. So you might see nine slides of screen after screen then see a 3 second FMR as a window is dragged from one location to another.
I suppose you might test the FMR situation by simply trying to record a brief project using total FMR from start to finish. See if that works or not.
Cheers... Rick
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import oracle.adf.view.rich.util.InstanceStyles;
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