Working out a Widget length in Captivates Timeline?
I've been thinking about making some easy to use User
Widgets, the kind that users could just throw on the timeline,
tweak a few options and forget about. Many of these I'd like to
have them 'finish' just before the end of the animation in the
captivate timeline. That is, if they are an animation that has
something drag out onto the stage for example, i'd like to make it
automatically drag back offstage when the widget ends on the
timeline.
Since captivate doesn't seem to have the option to tell me
something on the playbars length programatically, (I assume) The
only way I can think of doing this is to use Flash to grab the
"currentFrame" variables from captivate, times it by 30
(framecount) and have the user input the length of the animation in
a text box. Unfortunately this isn't the most ideal way of doing
it.
Anyone else got any ideas how we could accomplish this? Is
there anyway to access a widgets length on the captivate
timeline?
Ah yes, I knew there had to be an easy answer for that one. Thanks!
Problem Solved
Message was edited by: Jake Abramson
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I just saw the Adobe Blog article about Captivate 8 and the statement that Cp8 is an " authoring tool that takes virtually all of the work out of creating responsive courses online".
http://blogs.adobe.com/captivate/2014/05/the-all-new-adobe-captivate-8-blends-authoring-ea se-with-game-changing-mobile-support.html
Methinks this might be a tad overstating the matter. With responsive e-learning courses you effectively need to build the same course three times for the three different device screen sizes.
Gotta love marketing people...Of course it is marketing hype, almost the only feature that everyone is shouting about, but I never did see a work flow, or real time experience described in all those blogs. I never write about some features I didn't explore, so I started with those that are also useful for the many companies that are not turning to mobile or BYOD yet, and have talked about those, including limitation and possible improvements.
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I am busy creating a real responsive tutorial (for Captivate) and will try to explain later on what I learned by doing. Only at that moment I will 'write', marketing is certainly not one of my skills
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Hi,
I am using Flash CS4. Is there any way to adjust the length of multiple timelines at once? I am doing an animation of leaves falling from a tree. The leaves alone have 17 separate timelines on separate layers plus each has it's own guide layer.
If I had the ability to to select all of the timelines together and adjust all of their respective start and end times at the same same time, relative to each other as well as separately, life would be so much easier!
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SabelVThanks! I had a feeling. It's nice to have the answer. Oh well, now I can get back to work and not waste any more time with that part of the puzzle. You've been very helpful and I'm sure your answer is correct. Wish I knew how to rate your answer even higher. Thanks again!
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1.) Select your audio region.
2.) Set the cycle range to the same amount of bars as the loop (NOT the same length as the loop, but if your loop is a two-bar loop, set the cycle range to two bars)
3.) Select Options > Tempo > Adjust Tempo using Region Length and Locators (or Command+T)
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I have recently converted from all types of PC systems and MS OS to Apple. The conversion was based on a few drivers.
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VMware Fusion was installed for those things that I couldn’t live without until I found a suitable replacement like MS Money, Paint Shop Pro, MS Office etc. Installed XP.
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Then to MAIL which is great on the iPHONE as I can easily monitor my 5 email accounts, what a result. But now I come to attach JPG files as I would in outlook and they open into the content of text in the mail and will not stay closed but disrupt the message. Wholly unacceptable to my way of working with no cure.
Scanning next, so I down loaded GIMP to replace PSP which I find useless so back to PSP I go again via XP & Fusion.
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I buy a Panasonic HDC-HS9 for £700 which doesn’t flaming work despite the fact that it should based on all the standards quoted by both manufactures and there are no disclaimers from either party that it won’t work.
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What are the different opinions on why pages should not achieve this?
As far as I know, Apple is free to choose to offer this or that feature.
They never said that they want to clone Word or even compete with it.
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Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) jeudi 9 juin 2011 16:03:52
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Yesterday, after discovering that the email address I used as my Apple ID was about to be deleted, I used my iPad to update my Apple ID to a new one. Everything went fine, until I moved on to my iPhone, which is still asking me for the password for my OLD Apple ID. I can't work out how to tell either my iPhone or my Macbook that this one is out of date and get them to change to the new one. iTunes is changed, but the settings aren't. Can anyone help me please?
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