Use variables to create a custom Closed Captioning option

Question

Hey,
I have a click box and text caption. On click of the click box I want to display a text caption and then on all slides throughout a project want that text caption box to remain on each screen, but want the content in that box to change per screen.
What's the best way to do this?

Answer 1

It is possible to do this but it's a bit involved because it requires that you run a check ON Slide Enter of each slide to find out if the CC captions should be displayed.  And since those captions will be different objects on each slide, you'll need to set up  a different Conditional Advanced Action for each slide.  That's a lot of work just to replicate something that Captivate can do with its own CC text feature.
Here's one way to do it:
You place text captions that share the same style and size on each slide.  Each caption should have the appropriate CC text for the audio on that slide.
Set up a variable to track whether the user has clicked the button to activate CC text, then set an Advanced Action to show the text caption on the slide where the user clicks this button.
For all the other slides, you need a separate Conditional Advanced Action to be executed ON Slide Enter to check the value of this CC variable and then SHOW the CC text caption if the variable is set to TRUE.
If you don't have too many slides in your project then this might be OK.  But if you have a longish project with dozens of slides, you're going to get to hate this pretty quick.