Right Click in published movie Captivate 4

When I try to publish a movie with right click capability I lose that capability and the movie freezes. The only time it works is when I run it locally from the default save location. I have turned off accessibility and all other necessary switches
How can I make this movie function properly over an intranet with potentially 10,000 users
thedarf

If you are not running the published movie from a server, then you have to add the location to flash security setting in order for it to work.
Following url is where user will have to add the location from where the swf is being viewed.
http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager04.htm l
Locally it is running fine because your local drive must have already been added to this setting.

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Right click on flash movie / SWF file

Why we get flash default menu when i right click on a flash
movie?.
When i enable video bookmark (videomark). user is suppose to
right click on flash movie and select videomark.
is the flash default menu is customizable?. Please let me
know.

Here is a sample script to customize the right-click menu.
Put it in frame 1 of your movie.
var myContextMenu = new ContextMenu();
myContextMenu.hideBuiltInItems();
var thisTitle:ContextMenuItem = new ContextMenuItem("My
prison movie", bla);
var thisCredit:ContextMenuItem = new ContextMenuItem("created
by Paris Hilton", bla, separatorBefore=true);
var thisCopyright:ContextMenuItem = new
ContextMenuItem("© My Intelligence Is Ltd.", bla);
myContextMenu.customItems.push(thisTitle);
myContextMenu.customItems.push(thisCredit);
myContextMenu.customItems.push(thisCopyright);
function bla() {
//insert your function here
this.menu = myContextMenu;
The function can be anything: getURL, load a movie clip, turn
sound on/off, etc. You can add as many ContextMenuItems as you
want. Each one can have a separate function assigned. It seems that
some sort of function is required by the class, so I use an empty
function like in this example if I want nothing to happen when the
user clicks the menu item.

Right click on published SWF not working

Hi, I'm using the latest versin of Captivate 7 and trying to publish a SWF project to work on our webpae.
In the software simulation we have a need for right click to activate a function, but this is only bringing up the flash menu when we play it.
I have Enable Accessability turned off and the file's a trusted location on my computer.
Can anyone help me work out how to make this work?
Thanks
Anna

Are you executing the HTM file or just the SWF?
Right click functionality requires a fair chunk of JavaScript code in order to work. Captivate supplies this JS code in the HTM and JS files that it publishes along with the SWF file. If you are only executing the SWF file then you won't get the JS code. You need to execute the HTM file which will then pull in the SWF and all the additional required code.
You must also make sure you have at least one click box in your project set to use right click. This will tell Captivate that you need the extra JS code to be added to the output.

Right-click down mouse-move gives no onMouseMove event in Safari on Mac

I am trying to detect on-mouse-event in JavaScript, when the mouse is moving while the right-button is down in Safari on Mac. But it seems the onmousemove event is not fired.
Note: I am able to detect the mouse move combined with right mouse down on windows event FF on Mac.
To see also the following links to test:
http://www.codelifter.com/main/javascript/capturemouseposition1.html
http://www.webreference.com/programming/javascript/mk/column2/
Thanks.
Laine

I figured that the form wasn't public, but I asked just in case.
Yahoo in general is not very Mac-friendly, but still, what you are experiencing is not normal and must be very frustrating, especially when someone is looking over your shoulder (isn't that when computers act up the most?).
Because the form works in Internet Explorer, the problem is not a general OS X problem, but if this is the only form that you have problems with in Safari, then my first guess is that the page the form is on is not written to the accepted standards for writing web pages. Safari is one of the least forgiving when it comes to bad or incorrect coding of web pages.
If you have this problem on all or most forms, but things continue to work in Internet Explorer, then one thing I would try is to delete Safari's Preference file. I have seen all sorts of seemingly unrelated but Safari-specific problems arise when this file gets corrupted (which isn't often). The file is named com.apple.Safari.plist. Not all problems are caused by a bad preference file, so this procedure may not work.
First quit Safari. You can copy the file name (com.apple.Safari.plist), click on the Spotlight icon in the upper right of your screen, and paste it in the search box. One entry should be found. If you click on "Show All" in the results window, a larger Spotlight window will appear and you can drag com.apple.Safari.plist to the Trash from that window. You will loose any changes you have made in Safari's Preferences and a new one will be created when you restart Safari.
You might want to consider Firefox as an alternate browser. Internet Explorer is now longer being updated or developed and is now behind the times and renders many pages poorly.

Captivate 2 right-click and drag and drop in simulation

Captivate has been suggested as a suitable replacement for
Authorware since the announcement that Adobe doesn't plan to
continue with Authorware. I find myself in the position to put this
to the test. I'm in the process of recreating a course that had
been created in Authorware in a toolset comprised of Artuculate
Presenter, Articulate Quizmaker, Articulate Engage, Captivate, and
PowerPoint.
The simulation created in Authorware has these feautures:
-learner right clicks on items on screen to see a context
menu then selects option from the context menu
-learner drags toolbar and other items on screen to another
screen location
-learner selects item from Windows Start>>Program and
other application menus. As the learner's mouse moves over the
menu, menu options highlight and flyout menus appear even if
they're not directly involved in the simulation
-learner logs into course with an employee ID number. This
information is stored and is used in the simulation in which they
log into the system being simulated.
Can I do any of these things in Captivate?
I suspect I can simulate the flyout menus with a number of
mouse over hotspots - exactly the way it's done in Authorware.
However, I haven't found any way to do simulate the other items:
-use of drag and drop where the learner performs the action
-use of a variable value to check validity of what has been
entered in the text field
-use of right click to advance Captivate simulation.
I'd appreciate any help you can give me. After all, I've
heard many people claim that Captivate can replace Authorware.
Thanks
Grace Daminato

Hi Grace,
Captivate is indeed a replacement for Authorware, but only in
the way that an Audi is a replacement for a Ferrari. They do the
same basic job, but you need to do some after market modifications
to the Audi to level the playing field somewhat.
1) Flyout menus are indeed possible, if you're willing to
create "rollovers" that display a picture of the expanded menu when
the user mouses over. You are limited to exposing only first-level
menus, however. Captivate does not allow for rollovers on
rollovers, except possibly via Captivate 3's Slidelet
functionality.
***EDIT***: You can also use Paul Dewhurst's rollover widgets
to fake multi-level menu behavior. They are available from Paul's
site here:
http://www.raisingaimee.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=24&Itemid=29
2) Drag-and-drop in Captivate is currently only available as
an add-in Flash object, each of which must unfortunately be built
by hand in Flash. Adobe Community Expert Paul Dewhurst offers
source files for such interactions on his website:
http://www.raisingaimee.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13&Itemid=29
3) Captivate has built-in checking of field values, but you
are limited to hardcoded values only. If you need variable-based
input checking, you must create it yourself in Flash and insert it
as an animation.
4) Right-click is possible in Captivate, but must be added
manually. Captivate community contributor William Heinz has created
a nifty right-click solution for HTML/SWF publication and Paul
Dewhurst again comes to the rescue with a solution for .EXE-based
output:
HTML/SWF-based Output:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/captivate/articles/rightclick.html
EXE-based Output:
http://www.raisingaimee.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12&Itemid=29
Unfortunately, making these modifications to Captivate files
comes at a cost. First, there's the overhead of tracking down and
implementing the custom enhancements. More importantly, Captivate
has no way of "scoring" custom enhancements, so any such
interactions will not be reflected in the user's reported results.
If you're willing to live with these limitations, and a few
others, Captivate can indeed be a suitable replacement for
Authorware.

Move tool, right click should show exact layer

On mac when you right click with the move tool, it brings up the list of all the layers, plus it starts your mouse over the layer you right clicked on. But in Windows, when I right click, it just starts the mouse on the top left of the list of layers. I want it to auto find the layer, like in mac. How can I make it do that? Thanks.

As Paulo said, just click on the image with the move tool when its Auto Select box is checked in the tool's options and this will select the topmost layer containing the clicked pixel. I use it like that all the time. Holding Ctrl will toggle the state of this option. So, if you use the Move tool with this option off, just hold Ctrl and click to select the topmost layer containing the clicked pixel - alternative to Alt + right click.
When you right click, the popup shows a list of all layers containing pixels under the clicked point in the corresponding stacking order with the topmost layer being first on the list - just select it, your mouse is almost there.
Another handy thing if you are like me working most of the time with gazilions of layers is when you right click and press a key with the first letter of the layer's name it selects it. Sometimes this is much faster when I often need to select certain layer/s down a long list.

Flash files with right click imported in dreamweaver files

Flash files created with Captivate which contain rightclick
functionality are imported to html files created in Dreamweaver. In
other words, I don't use the html created by Captivate but another
html file to build up a whole course. But now a couple of those
flash files contain a right click and obviously I have to adjust
the dreamweaver file with some of the script that William Heinz has
created. I am not an HTML expert and I am not 100% confident that I
can do with just endless try&error. Could anyone give me some
hints?
I suppose I need to use the second bit of William's article
"the more complex requirement".
When I insert the flash file this is what I get: (This is
where I am suppose to make the changes????)
<script type="text/javascript">
AC_FL_RunContent( 'codebase','
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,0,0','widt h','746','height','591','title','Schedule
Let
Me','vspace','5','src','Resources/Sched_LM_skin','quality','high','pluginspage','
http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash','movi e','Resources/Sched_LM_skin'
); //end AC code
</script><noscript><object
classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,0,0"
width="746" height="591" vspace="5" title="Schedule Let Me">
<param name="movie" value="Resources/Sched_LM_skin.swf"
/>
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<embed src="Resources/Sched_LM_skin.swf" width="746"
height="591" vspace="5" quality="high" pluginspage="
http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed>
</object></noscript>
I am not sure what to do with the "<Body
onload='javascript:init()..... "etc as suggested by William.
Thanks for any advice on this!!!

I hope there is one person out there who can help me with
this issue.
I have started from scratch and created a blank html with
dreamweaver and inserted the flash file (with right click
animation) created with Captivate.
Then I made the adjustments as per Heinz and also included a
ID=Captivate1 as the RightClick.js refers to that.
The main difference between this html file and the html file
created with Captivate, is that the Captivate one also has
writedocument bit.
Anyway, is there anybody in the world who can give me
atip/hint/suggestion?????

Interactive drag and drop (right clicks)

I'm trying to create interactive training videos that utilize
right-clicks as well as right-click drag and drops. I hope i'm just
missing something. It's important for our training to include these
abilities. Any suggestions?

quote:
Originally posted by:
Captiv8r
Hi katymeredith
I'm sorry to hear you don't view Captivate useful. However,
your post confuses me just a bit.
What is the intent? If you want to just rant, I guess that's
fine. But we are all users here just trying to help one another
out. If you feel Adobe might be reading and making decisions based
on user posts, you would be wrong. They seldom look in here,
leaving it pretty much to us. This isn't a slam against them or
even a bad thing. Just the nature of peer-to-peer support.
I would like to address some of your assertions though.
You said:
The lack of proper right click functionality really makes
Captivate a non starter for serious application training
simulations.
Fair enough. Yes, I agree right mouse click is an issue. But
there are workarounds. Perhaps if the developers hear enough folks
ask about it, it will change.
As does the lack of mouseover transitions.
I'm not sure what you mean. Captivate does have mouseover
effects. Perhaps I'm misunderstanding what you mean by "mouseover
transition". Just last night I posted an example to my site in
order to ask another user if this is what was meant. Take a look at
it and see if you disagree that this constitutes a "mouseover
transition".
Click
here to see example
As does the lack of proper keypress transitions.
Not sure what you mean with that.
As does the lack of proper text entry handling.
Or that either. I use Text Entry boxes all the time with no
issues. Maybe I'm doing it wrong.
As does the fact that you can't properly pause a slide (keep
your browser minimised for long enough, and you'll complete the
course without having to do anything!)
Hmmm, I've never seen a movie that has been paused by an
interactive object just take off on its own again and simply
complete with no intervention. Are you talking about a
demonstration and not a simulation?
Cheers... Rick
Hi Rick
I DO find Captivate useful - just really frustrating when it
comes to developing interactive tutorial simulations. And what I
find most frustrating is that it's a really really good product -
but that doesn't quite do what I need it to do
Hence the rant .....
And what I meant was:
1. Right click - probably the biggest gripe. Yes, I know that
there are a few workarounds, but they all seem to require you to
start coding, or work in some situations and not others; if I'm
releasing a sim to 10000 people with varying setups I need to be
absolutely certain that it'll work.
How many applications do you know that don't use right click?
So Captivate must have full right click interactions (and by that I
mean - anything you can do with the left button you can do with the
right button).
2. Mouseover stuff. That example of yours looks pretty
impressive - not quite what I had in mind though - I really mean
transitions on mouseover to next slide, back to start of slide, to
slide x, etc etc. - example: to activate a submenu by hovering over
it, or to correctly show the change in a button's appearance when
you move your mouse over it.
I know you can do this with a rollover image - at least, you
could if it didn't crash my PC when I tried to open the image
- but that's so time consuming to have to manually
grab and overlay an image for every mouseover. So again, I really
need an 'anything you can do with a click you can do with a hover'
interaction.
3. Proper keypress interactions. I need to be able to detect
a keypress, regardless of where the mouse pointer is or where the
focus is. I know there's a partial solution involving text entry
boxes and jiggling with the shortcut key, but there are pitfalls if
the focus isn't in the text box. What I really need is an
interaction that covers the entire slide and simply detects a
keypress and gives me the same navigation options as a click.
4. Text entry handling. Yes, there's the text box
interaction, if you don't mind it not really looking like your
actual application
- but where's the pre entry text? Most apps will
squirt some default (preselected and editable) text into text boxes
- as far as I know Captivate won't - unless you klutz it using an
image - which you then can't edit.
And when you do edit the text in the box, the highlight
colours don't match system settings. And you can't get the text to
wrap properly according to the size of the text box - it sort of
scrolls horizontally. And the multiple correct answers is good, but
it won't give any leeway to spelling errors - other other sim
builders will allow you to allow, say, 6 out of 8 characters as
being enough to count as 'correct'. Oh, and there should be an
option for Captivate to monitor typing and immediately spot the
correct entry's been typed without waiting for an exit key or
click.
5. I might be about to admit I was wrong here ....
- my understanding was that you couldn't keep a
slide active for more than 3600 (?) seconds in a simulation, and
that if the slide reached its maximum time it automatically went to
the next one? Have to admit I haven't really experimented with that
side of things.
So are you saying that if you have a clickbox interaction
that moves to the next slide, and the user doesn't click it, and
you don't have a playbar, then the slide will just stay there. For
ever? If so, that does make Captivate a bit more useful to me!
Apologies if I've got the wrong end of the stick on that one.
I know all this may sound like minor niggles, but it's very
important to me that my sims look and behave as close as possible
to the original app as possible. I'm more relaxed about demos -
which is where I'm using Cap at the moment. In comparison to the
sim builders you get with LMS systems it looks fantastic and is
miles more intuitive - it's just that they tend to have all the
interactions I really need - and Cap doesn't.
If they can get what I've mentioned above into Cap 3 - or,
hope against hope, 2.1 - I'll be abandoning traditional sim
builders.

Introducing Right Click functionality

Tried to use a click box but cannot find a 'right mouse
button' option. How can I utilise right mouse click
functionality?

Helga
Heinz's solution is working for me in C2 both in preview mode
and publish to swf mode, and should work in 3 as well. Heinz's
solution provides a capture for the right click within captivate
and does work in preview mode, jbradley88 is wrong - Heinz's
solution is not only designed for HTML deployment (there is an HTML
component to handle overriding the Flash player responce to the
right-click - prevents the player from displaying the right-click
menu). jbradley is confusing Shongrunden's solution which uses an
HTML mask to intercept the right click and passes mouse
co-ordinates to captivate, with Heinz's much more effective and
compatible solution of passing the right-click directly to the
captivate embedded swf animation.
Two things I've found in C2 that you need to do get Heinz's
solution to work properly, you may need to do these in C3 as well.
1) In the right-click properties turn syncronize with project
off, the left-click box and right-click animation should have the
exact same start-time and end-time on the timeline, or have the
right-click animation run a click or two past the left-click in the
slide timeline, and have the left-click box start after the
right-click starts in the timeline.
2) import the right-click animation into the captivate
project. In the library file list, Right-click the
RightClickAnimation item. Select properties. Click Import, select
RightClickAnimation.swf if not selected, Click Open, Click OK.
Part 1 of step 1 may not be necessary I've yet to try it
w/syncronize on. Step 2 is essential, for some reason this brings
the swf file animation into the captivate project, one would think
Insert animation function would perform this as a background step,
but software quirks are what they are.
Please feel free to e-mail me if you need clarification for
either of these two steps, good luck getting your right-click
working.

Right-Click to Select Layers

I usually right click to select an object in my workspace. When there are groups however they show up in the context menu no matter where I click. When working on something with ~15-30 groups this can be very frustrating.
Is there a way to make groups not show up when I right click?

This has happened to me a few times. And every time I forget what I did to fix it... lol
BUT...
I figured out that I was in Quick Mask Mode for some reason.... (hitting 'Q' on the keyboard gets you there.)
Hitting 'Q' again to get out of the mode and suddenly... right-click with the Move Tool works again!!!
btw, deleting the preferences does nothing to remedy this. Apparently being in Quick Mask Mode is not affected by preferences and stays selected even when you quick the program.

Right-click functionality has stopped working

Hi everyone, I'm having issues with the right-click functionality in my Captivate project.
I have:
Turned off accessibility
Set the Global Security settings so that the files I'm referring to are in a trusted location
Here's the problem - the files I have are sitting on a shared drive. The users and I all have the same versions of Flash Player and Internet Explorer, and we all have our Global Security Settings set to trust the location (because we've put the settings into the environment so it always applies). The issue is, the right-click works for me, but it doesn't work for my users. The only difference is, I have the Adobe Captivate and Flash software installed (hence have the Flash Player that is installed when they are installed) and my users don't.
Can you please help me? Are there any areas we should be looking at?

It could be as simple as not having the two-finger secondary click function enabled in the Trackpad seetings in System Preferences.
Does Control-Click work? (holding the CONTROL key, while clicking)

CS4 becomes non-responsive when I right click

When I go to open a document in CS4 and then try to right click, delete or move files while I'm in the open screen, Photoshop becomes non-responsive and I have to shut it down and restart it, thereby losing any unsaved work. It's been doing it for awhile and I've tried to find a solution, but haven't had any luck. I've deleted my cache and that didn't fix the problem.
Can anyone help, please?

Check the mouse/driver. The functions you mention are controlled by the OS even though you are in PS.

Right-Click Functionality - Heinz Article

Greetings:
I'm finally faced with the right-click functionality issue in
Captivate. I'm using Captivate 2.
I have done my due diligence and I understand why I get the
Flash Player settings when I right-click in a simulation
(interactive simulations only, a pure demonstration works fine).
And, I have located and read the William Heinz article titled
'Using Animations to Extend Adobe Captivate for Right-Click
Capability'. This article can be found in the Captivate support
section, along with another one (more complicated, it seems) by
Steven Shongrunden.
Here's the URL to the Heinz article:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/captivate/articles/rightclick.html
Everything was going well with the Heinz technique until I
reached step 5 on page 2 of the article. This is where the
animation is inserted onto the slide. For sub-step d, sub-sub-step
iii, it says to "Select the Pause until User Clicks option" in the
Animation dialog box. However, I do not have a Pause until User
Clicks option in my Animation dialog box.
So, is that an option only available for the Animation dialog
box in Captivate 3? If so, then the opening paragraph of this
article is incorrect in stating that this technique works for
Captivate 2.
Or, have I just misread something in this article?
Thanks in advance for any help with this!

Hi Jim
If the article needs improvement, by all means you should
report it so it may be corrected. Perhaps use the Wish Form?
Click
here.
Or if you would like to post here where it is vague, I'll be
happy to feed it back through some other channels I have.
Cheers... Rick

Quicktime Movies on published iWeb require right click to start???

I recently added several videos to my iWeb site. While in iWeb, the movies play fine with a normal left-click of the mouse on the play icon below the "movie screen". However, when I publish my site and go to my URL, I along with anyone else accessing my site, have to either double click the "movie screen" to get the movie to play or have to right-click the play icon. So frustrating... has anyone else had this problem? Anyone out there know how to fix it?
The movies are exported from iMovie using the Export with Quicktime feature within iMovie.
Please help!!!!

The movie is overlapping the footer. Go to the Inspector/Page/Layout pane and increase the height of the content of each movie page by 100 pixels, publish and try again.
Click to view full size
You can see the overlap by typing Command+A while viewing the movie page in Safari.
OT

Right Click won't work in published Captivate 4

I have seen similar questions but, although I have followed any instructions I can find, I still can't get the right click to work once I have published.
The click box was created using a right click and shows the red right click icon
I have also checked under Click Box options and the right click is ticked
I have said "No" to Enable Accessibility in publishing preferences
I have published as Flash 9
I have selected AS2
Can anyone please suggest anything else I can try?

I've done both. Oddly it works in previews just not after it's been published and uploaded

Right Click in published movie Captivate 4

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