Software Simulations

Hi,
I am doing a software simulation course of Audacity (audio editing app) and was wondering if anyone had any ideas regards events that are somewhat less common while creating Captivate simulations. For example, I want the user to move 4-5 sliders to a certain value. My first and only idea was to so into full motion recording using the shortcut for the parts that use the sliders and then use text-entry boxes in the assesment section.
Another situation is when editing audio, the user must drag-select a portion of the audio and delete it or apply and effect to it. The only thing I could think of was to simply put a click box over the portion of audio that the user is supposed to drag-select and then when they do it in the assessment they won't actually drag but it will trigger that portion of the full motion recording and then they will just have to press DEL to delete it.
Any thoughts?

Some software tasks are simply NOT a good fit for simulation.  Drag selecting a piece of audio is one such task.
As far as replicating the actions of slider controls, there is a widget that would allow you to do this, but whether that's still too much trouble considering all the other things you would NOT be able to simulate is up to you.
http://www.infosemantics.com.au/adobe-captivate-widgets/slider-component

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