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Hi,
I am working on a project where i have a background image and text in front of it. The text appears as expected in the browser but at the end of the slide, I ask the user to click a smart button to continue. I show a smart object (arrow) pointing to the button. The problem is that the smart object doesn’t appear.
If I move the smart object near the beginning of the slide it shows up fine but towards the end it doesn’t appear.
I am having an additional but similar problem where I am trying to use an arrow to point to text on the screen as I narrate. The first arrow appears but then nothing else shows up. During a preview it looks fine when I scrub the timeline. You can see the arrows appear and disappear as planned. It happens when I publish or click any of the preview options.
I put the smart object to the top of the stack so its not underneath anything.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
Todd
Hi,
I am working on a project where i have a background image and text in front of it. The text appears as expected in the browser but at the end of the slide, I ask the user to click a smart button to continue. I show a smart object (arrow) pointing to the button. The problem is that the smart object doesn’t appear.
If I move the smart object near the beginning of the slide it shows up fine but towards the end it doesn’t appear.
I am having an additional but similar problem where I am trying to use an arrow to point to text on the screen as I narrate. The first arrow appears but then nothing else shows up. During a preview it looks fine when I scrub the timeline. You can see the arrows appear and disappear as planned. It happens when I publish or click any of the preview options.
I put the smart object to the top of the stack so its not underneath anything.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
Todd
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Thank you for your thoughtful reply. I appreciate the suggested list. I’m on it! As a newbie there is so much to learn and I find myself consuming tutorial videos for half my days I’m enjoying the process but wish I could learn twice as fast lol.
I know that seems now the way CP-newbies think they have to learn: just by watching videos. Recently I had quite a lot of trainees for a personalized training who started that way as well, but exclaimed after a couple of really personalized training sessions: OMG, why didn’t I find you before, I am now developing in half the time i used to. You don’t have to believe of course, but due to my decades of experience with software training, I see video tutorials (especially the non-interactive, step-by-step ones) as a good addition, but never the best way for learning.
BTW: could you show me a screenshot of the Timeline? If my suspicion is confirmed I could explain on your timeline what is happening.
Actually it was a silly oversight. My navigation buttons were pausing the presentation. Thank you very much once again! It’s always the small, easily overlooked things that seem to catch me…
I have answered to tons of similar ‘silly oversights’ in the forums’, reason why I classify Timeline as the number 1 stumbling block. Most training programmes don’t even treat it.
I wrote many articles and published movies about the Timeline. Here are two links:
http://blog.lilybiri.com/pausing-captivates-timeline
http://www.lilybiri.com/published/TimelineBlog/index.html
BTW, have also a look at:
http://blog.lilybiri.com/challenges-for-starters
You will read there that I consider lack of understanding of the TImeline as being the first cause of problems for newbies.
Just FYI Captivate has ho ‘smart objects’ which a typical term in apps like Photoshop with a very specific meaning: it cannot be edited in PS but only in the original application (example: inserting an Illustrator file as smart object), thus protecting the original file.
I don’t know why Captivate labels shapes as being smart, but understand ou mean a smart shape. (which is vector-based).
From your explanation I suspect you are a newbie, and have problems with the Timeline (most important panel in Captivate). If you have an interactive object on the timeline, you should see a Pausing point for that object (it will have a green timeline). All objects on the timeline appearing after that pausing point will not show up until the playhead is release or until you edit the Pausing point. I will add some links in another answer, to avoid moderating time.
