JS or Effects with Objects with a State
May 9, 2018
JS or Effects with Objects with a State
May 9, 2018
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I learned something unpleasant yesterday and I’m hoping someone can help me get around it.

I want to use either JavaScript or a motion path to move an image off the side of the page (to the left if that matters), change it’s state, and then bring it back on to the page from the direction it left.  The unpleasant thing that I found was that I’d added text captions to the image’s different states (the reason for the motion), but the JS/motion path only moved the image…not that text; which stayed static.

Any idea on how I can move everything at once, or will I have to have different states for each individual item and identify them individually to make them all move together.

As always, thanks for the help.

v/r

Jay

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May 10, 2018
May 10, 2018

Sure, you can do it in Captivate: fill with image and add text, adjusting position of text by editing margins.

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May 10, 2018
May 10, 2018

That is the reason I suggested to have everything in one shape. Did you ever try that?

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May 10, 2018
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I didn’t, but I was trying to keep all of the future editing in one program.

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May 10, 2018
May 10, 2018

I’ve tried a few different things, and it appears that even though I added the text as part of another object’s state, and Captivate won’t let me uniquely identify that text while in the state, Captivate doesn’t treat a “state” as a single object but as a collection of parts in this case. Looks like I’ll end up combining the image/text in PhotoShop and then bringing them into Captivate as a single image. Thanks all for the comments.

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