Test if text box is empty - advanced actions

Hi,
I have a form that the user is required to fill in. When the user tries to progress to the next slide I would like to test to check that none of the text boxes are empty.
Ideally something like;
if ((Textbox1) == null){
show failure caption
} else {
continue
I know you can use advanced actions however I'm having trouble defining null. I've even tried creating a variable and leaving it blank and testing the textbox against that however it doesn't seem to work either.
I'm probably missing something simple as I am very new to Captivate.
Is there a way to hand code advanced actions using AS?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!!
Regards
Tim

Hi!
I had the same problem.
User has to enter his name.
I predefined the variable of the textbox with an action at the "what should happen if you reach this slide" feature. You can find it if you doubleclick on the slide with your textbox, then look in the area "navigation". I have a German version of Cap4 so the names of features and functions differ...
Declare the variable of your textbox let's say "ABC123".
With an advanded action you can check if the text inside the variable changed from ABC123 to anything else:
if
variable_name is not equal to ABC123
then
else
If the variable is still ABC123 I jump to another slide with an error message.
An example you can find here:
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/446449?
Regards,
Markus

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Here is the procedure how to do it - but it does not work for me.
http://blogs.adobe.com/captivate/2010/12/few-tips-on-%E2%80%98advanced-actions%E2%80%99.ht ml
Could someone please confirm if the procedure mentioned in the blog is working or not, and if it's working, then what did I mess up in the first case below?
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Each object such as an Image, Caption or whatever is generally equipped with a Fade In and Fade Out transition effect. These effects are typically half a second long. So if you pause the slide very near the end of the object display time, the pause is occurring as the transition is fading the object out of view. Thus the "dimming" occurs.
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Edited by: Naveen Kumar on May 23, 2011 4:31 AM

misunderstood =/
Original (Coming - output): "<PAY_TXT>PAYκ Contact your bank or financial institution to make this payment from your cheque, savings, debit or transaction account.</PAY_TXT>"
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sorry but without knowing about source data for forming the xml i haven't ideas about your problem
in db it's "TM " or "™" or ... ?
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Something like XAE or "K" after PAY Value in the xml tag and continued the text value. (Tag value is not getting copied exactly here - i am sorry for that )
that's ok. i need to see the problem not the data as is
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looking forward.

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BUT that perfect outcome seems accidental.
The demo seems to work ONLY when the Advanced Action's success conditions refer to the first entry on each dropdown. That is, if the dropdowns contain values Right and Wrong, IN THAT ORDER, and the Action looks for "Right" and "Right" then you can click Submit and it produces the Continue button.
However, for example, if you reverse the order of the entries in one widget, so Widget2 contains Wrong and Right, and YOU DON'T TOUCH ANYTHING ELSE, then selecting "Right" and "Right" and clicking the Submit button produces the Wrong text box response.
So the order in which entries are listed in the widget has an impact, at least for me.
When you guys replicated my use case, did you replicate the Choose entries in the widgets, or did you simply have two top-level Right responses?
I've uploaded my first demo, without any other changes, to Google Docs, if you want to check it:
https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0Bz2ZZ5mfN3BkMjc1N2U3ZjgtZWZmMC00MmVlLWE3Y2UtZTczMzM5ZjI1N GMx&sort=name&layout=list&num=50

Advanced actions - trying to show a text caption

I have a slide with 5 text captions made from smart shapes, and 5 click boxes. All 5 smart shapes are hidden. I have 5 variables, all of which are set to zero. When a click box is clicked on, the corresponding smart shape shows and the value of the first user variable is set to one. When another click box is clicked on the corresponding smart shape shows and the next user variable is set to 1. Each of the click boxes is set up in a similar fashion. I set up 5 advanced actions, and the On Success action for each of the click boxes uses one of 5 advanced actions. The action for each click box looks something like this (I'm using generic names for this example):
IF variable1 is equal to 0
ACTIONS
Show textCaption1
Assign variable1 with 1
Play Audio sound.wav
Continue
This is working fine, and the corresponding smart shapes are showing as they should when each of the click boxes is clicked on.
But I have an additional feedback text caption that I want to show after all 5 smart shapes are showing. I tried setting up an advanced action that looks like this:
IF
variable1 is equal to 1 AND
variable2 is equal to 1 AND
variable3 is equal to 1 AND
variable4 is equal to 1 AND
variable5 is equal to 1
ACTIONS
Show feedbackTextCaption
But even after all of the click boxes have been clicked (which should set each of the 5 variables to 1), the feedback text caption does not show.
Can anyone help with a suggestion?

@Sreekanth, that is not the correct approach, because a user could click 5 times on the same click box and see the final text caption. Only when you disable an already clicked interactive object this can be used. Jay was right by choosing five different variables.
@Jay How do you trigger that last conditional action? Which event do you use? You explain that the first described action is triggered by the click box, but not what is triggering the conditional action.
I suspect you'll have to combine both actions, and assign them to each click box. That means a conditional action with two decisions:
First decision 'Always' needs the condition 'IF 1 is equal to 1' to create a mimicked standard action, and has to show the text caption, to assign 1 to the variable and to play the audio. I don't know why you added 'Continue'? If the click boxes pause all at the same moment, don't add Continue, let the playhead remain at the same location.
Second decision 'Checker' is the conditional action that you wrote, checking the values of the 5 variables, and if they have all the value 1 to show the feedback text.

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