Text Caption Box Option

For some reason, Adobe 5 is not giving me the option to change the text caption box to transparent.
Is there any way i can change that in settings? I have already gone throught all the setting options and could not find that option anywhere

Hello, welcome to the Captivate forums,
Do you not have this option in the Dropdown list of the General accordion of the Text Caption Properties panel?
Lilybiri

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Text Caption Box not appearing

HI All / Captivate 4 Experts:
I recently upgraded from Captivate 3 to 4. My text caption box is not appearing on certain slides. I do have a click box on them, however when I removed the click box and played the next 5 slides...the text caption box did not appear.
The slides that I have are meant for the user to click on certain areas with the instructions given to them on what and where to click.
Any ideas???
PLEASE HELP!! Thanks!
Jane

Hi there
I happened across a weird issue just last night that was resolved by choosing a different ActionScript version. I'm wondering if you can try this to see if there is a change in behavior.
Click Edit > Preferences > Project > Publish Settings and whatever it's set to AS2 or AS3, try the other option and see if it changes your outcome.
Cheers... Rick
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Text Caption Timing Options Changing after an Edit

I am trying to highlight a matrix in four seperate slides. I
made my text caption box and highlight box on one slide and copied
and pasted for the next three. When I went in to edit the text in
the 3 copied captions, the timing options changed on me. For
example, on one I set the timing to 10 seconds and when I tested I
realized it was showing for only about 3. I have no idea why this
changed. I found an old post from someone and the suggestion was to
uncheck some "calculate timing" box. I am using Captivate 3 and
have found no such box to uncheck. Any help would be wonderful!
Thanks,
Kim

Hi Kim and welcome to our community
Click the Project menu and see if you have a check mark
beside the option "Calculate Caption Timing". I'm guessing you do.
DE-select it and the timing should be left alone.
Cheers... Rick

Text Caption Boxes on imported PowerPoint slides

I have imported a number of PowerPoint slides (with an image)
into a Captivate movie. Text is needed on these slides so
originally I created the text on the PPT slides, but when imported
into Captivate the text formatting and spacing was all messed up.
So, I had to reimport those PPT slides with no text. After
reimporting, I used Text Caption Boxes to enter the text onto those
PPT slides. When published, those text boxes display small white
boxes (white is the text color) everywhere I used the space bar in
the text boxes (after a bullet, etc.) The white boxes do not show
when previewing or editing in Captivate.
Is there a way to get rid of those boxes or does anyone know
of any other solution?
Thanks in advance!

You're welcome. And speaking of "thanks", I have copied the
"fix" for the Transparent Caption Style bug from the guy who has
been a great friend and the best source of real intelligence in the
Captivate "expert" community, Paul Dewhurst. Paul deserves the real
"Thanks" for discovering the cure for this irritation ... his
solution is as follows - and I quote:
quote:
One of the Problems Captivate used to have was that if you used
transparent captions then the text in the published movie would
look blurred, In captivate 2 you can fix this problem and have nice
crisp text all you need to do is select
#C0C0C0 as the highlight colour and highlight part of the
text (you can select just one character) this makes the text in the
published movie display nice and crisp and the highlight is
transparent.
I hope this helps - and by the way, you can find other
great tips from Paul on his website at
this link
Have a great day!

Text Caption Boxes don't last for 'rest of slide'

Hi!
I have created an interactive Captivate movie (i.e. user must
click somewhere to go to the next slide) with various Text
Captions. I've set each text caption to last for 'rest of slide'.
However, in some cases the captions only last for an amount of
seconds whereas Text Captions on other slides, with the same 'rest
of slide' setting, last until you click to move forward.
Any ideas why some text captions do last for the rest of the
slide and some don't, even though they have the same settings under
the Options tab?
Please help!
Thanks!
Mark

Hi Mark and welcome to our community
It is usually all in the timing. For example, if you have a
click box or a button that pauses the slide, it could be that
clicking it moves to the next slide. In this case, let's assume the
slide is a total of six seconds long. But the click box pauses at
two seconds. So you would see the caption for two seconds, then
when the click box is clicked the next slide would display
immediately.
Or possibly the caption is set to fade in and out and the
click box or button pauses after they fade out?
What does the timeline show for the captions that misbehave?
Sincerely... Rick

Text Caption Boxes Not Working

After working on a large project (broken into smaller files
of course) for days... all of a sudden I am having numerous
troubles with Captivate.
Most alarming, I cannot open Text Boxes at all.... to edit or
change them... for no apparent reason.
ANY HELP would be gratefully appreciated. I really don't know
what to do here... this is an Emergency, and has never happened
before.
Thanks, QuizQueen

OH MY GOD, Rick, you are a genius!!! I am sitting here almost
in tears until you showed me this simple little ".dat" file
erase trick and Captivate seems to be working MUCH
MUCH better now.... I didn't know WHAT was wrong with it, it was
hanging and acting really sluggish.
Could this be something I look to do whenever the program
starts to act flakey... bake a new .Dat file??? If so I am your
grateful slave for eternity.
I'll post back when this bear of a project is done. Grrrr...
Rainy

Text Caption will not pop up and go away. It is there the whole slide

I have a Text Caption box that I am wanting to pop up and
give a Hint on how to answer a question slide and then go away
after a few seconds.
I have this in the Options tab for it:
Display for: specific time: 2.2 seconds
Appear after: .3 seconds
Effect: Fade in and out
In: .4 seconds Out: .5 seconds

Welcome to our community
Is this a standard Text Caption and you are inserting it on a
Question Slide? If so, perhaps the buttons or overall construction
of the Question Slide are pausing it so the caption is simply
appearing to remain on the slide the entire time.
If you are unable to futz with the timing to get the result
you want, you might try creating a small Captivate project that
only has the caption fading into view briefly, then fading out.
Publish that as a SWF and insert it on your question slide.
Hopefully something here was helpful... Rick

Editing text captions changes the Duration setting

HI,
I edited a text caption in the Text Caption dialog and closed
it with the OK button. The duration (Text Caption dialog >
Options tab > Timing > Display for:) changed although I
didn't change it. Has anyone had this problem? I looked at the help
file but didn't find any information.
Thanks,
MochaLM

Hi Rick,
I sent my reply, but it looks that it didin't get sent, so
I'm writng this again. Thank you so much for your quick response!!
I unchecked Calculate Caption Timing, and the problem is resolved.
You're great! Thanks so much
!

Text caption character/space limitation

This is probably so obvious that I'm missing it (trying too hard!). I have a TEB that is assigned a variable to return a user's input from the TEB (upon submit) to the next slide, inside a Text Caption box. The variable from the TEB is simply, v_scen1_cp; the capture box is assigned $$v_scen1_cp$$. Everything is good, right? Here's the probem: if a user puts more than 12 characters in the TEB, the Text Caption box on the following slide will not capture all the characters - it drops the characters if more than 12. I would like to be able to assign up to 20 characters to the Text Caption box. Any suggestions?

If you go to the "Format" section of the text box properties and insert your variable by using the "x" icon then right below where you select the variable name there is a field called "Maximum length". The default is 15 chars so you can change it to 50 or 100 if you like and then it will all be displayed in your text caption.
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Text caption timings not working properly on some computers

I've created a module in Captivate 4, published with the recommended settings of AS2, Flash Player 8, and 30 FPS. Audio narration is recorded on each slide separately. It contains a .flv video inserted that plays fine. On several of the slides, text captions are timed to appear automatically as the slide is being narrated. All the timings work fine on my computer (an HP laptop with Windows XP).
This module is viewed by all 800 of our employees. Several employees (one is our department head!) have reported that the text caption boxes come in very slowly, not at all in sync with the narration. For instance, I have the caption set to appear after 5 seconds; on her computer, it doesn't appear until 15 seconds.
This is only happening with text captions. On one slide, I have several transparent captions that the viewer has to click on to make them appear. These are working fine without any delay.
We first thought a common thread among those having this problem was they had just received upgraded computers, although they all run Windows XP with Flash Player 10. However, the IT tech investigating it for us ran the module on a new computer and it played perfectly. So it seems to be a problem in Captivate.
Anyone have any ideas as to what is causing this issue? Thanks for any help you can offer!

Have you tried republishing the movie as AS3 and Flashplayer 10?
Flasplayer 8 was nowhere near as efficient at decoding SWF content.
If all your users are on FP 10, publish to FP8?

Text in text captions disappearing.

I am using Captivate 6. When I save and close my project and then re-open it, the text inside my text captions disappears. I can still see the text caption box, but there is no text. It is also happening with buttons. I can see the text on the thumbnails in my filmstrip, but the captions on my stage are blank. Sometimes the text reappears if I click on the text box, but other times Captivate just shuts down all together (with no warning). I've been having a lot of trouble with Captivate 6 (compared to previous versions) and I thought maybe some of my issues were related to the fact that I was saving and publishing my projects on a network drive. I started and saved this one on my hard drive and still, I'm having this same problem with the text captions. Any thoughts?

Hi! I found a solution to my problem. Having 59 corrupted modules (French and English) including the separate training menus, believe me, I had to find a solution.
My template from 5.0 was a blank one with images I had added (top logo, etc). In order to make my modules as WCAG as possible, I had merged these images in the background (in the master slides). But even before then, I was having the problem.
I created a brand new template in Captivate 6.0 after running the batch file (not sure if this made a difference but eh...). A good point now is that we don't have to merge images in master templates anymore, the system does not let you do it but they are merged automatically on the slides! This is a great new feature I didn't know about. After completing my new template, I created a new project from the template, copied all slides from my corrupted file and pasted them into the new project and it's solved! The text is now appearing, the preferences were created by default.

Text Caption options not applied

Hi,
I'm trying to add a text caption with a transparent style.
however when I try to modify font, font size, or color no change is
being applied. If I switch to the Adobe Blue caption style I can
modify color, but not font size. Any idea why this is
happening?

Hi there
I happened across a weird issue just last night that was resolved by choosing a different ActionScript version. I'm wondering if you can try this to see if there is a change in behavior.
Click Edit > Preferences > Project > Publish Settings and whatever it's set to AS2 or AS3, try the other option and see if it changes your outcome.
Cheers... Rick
Helpful and Handy Links
Captivate Wish Form/Bug Reporting Form
Adobe Certified Captivate Training
SorcerStone Blog
Captivate eBooks

Change Text Box Options?

Is it possible to change the text box options for an entire document, once the type is already flowed in?

If you used Object styles for the frames, it's a piece of cake.
Otherwise, check out the Object tab in Find & Replace -- much overlooked, but most likely powerful enough to do what you want.

Using Item UIDRef, can we get data as set in "text on path option" dailog box for each "text on path" item

Hi all,
I have a Item UIDRef but facing a problem for getting data as set in "text on path option" dailog box for each "text on path" item.
What I did:
- Getting the pointer "IMainItemTOPData" using item UIDRef as
InterfacePtr<IMainItemTOPData> mainItemTOPData(shapesUIDRef, UseDefaultIID());
- This interface has the method GetTOPOptionData () which return ITOPOptionsData pointer
- But SDK don't have "ITOPOptionsData" class implementation.
Second Approch:
- Used "ITextOnPathSelectionSuite" and getting the correct result for Desktop plugin.But I want the correct result in server plugin also.
Anyone who has an idea how to get this using UIDRef, please let me know.
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Jitendra Kumar Singh

Hi Pulse,
Unfortunately, Flex doesn't currently support text on a path. However, I binged it and found this:
http://blog.tsclausing.com/post/49
That might be useful.
-Adam

Text caption capture

Sinc
I have (on my previous computer) captured Captivate
demonstrations where Captivate automatically inserted captions. I'm
trying to create an interactive training simulation and it doesn't
matter what Options I select under the auto-capture, Captivate is
not automatically inserting any captions, rollover captions or
highlight boxes. I have a Dell Dimension 3100 with Windows XP,
Version 5.1 SP2. Does anyone have any ideas?

Hi dalemw and welcome to our community
I'm wondering if what you are seeing is possibly related to
the actual application being recorded. Perhaps Captivate simply
doesn't recognize some of the items in order to insert the Text
Caption. To test this, try opening Windows Notepad and record a
brief movie. See if it inserts captions there. If so, it's the
application you are recording and probably not Captivate.
Things to try:
Restart Captivate - Sometimes simply closing and restarting
Captivate does the trick.
Hunt and destroy the Captivate settings file - you can do
this by viewing the TechNote linked below:
Click here to view the
TechNote
Don't worry, Captivate easily rebuilds this file if it isn't
found. Oh yeah, you also want to be sure and Close Captivate before
doing this. No need to make it wander around your computer all bug
eyed wondering where the file went.
Cheers... Rick

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