August 21, 2019
Measure lenghts with Captivate
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August 21, 2019
Measure lenghts with Captivate
I'm a former teacher (and headmaster) in french primary schools. Now I work as a freelance on the net as a webmaster. I used to work with Flash for many years, but now I'm starting to discover Captivate and find it amazing !...
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Hello Captivaters !…

This time, I want to share with you my experience concerning the measurements of lengths with Captivate.

With a simple drag, it’s easy to drag a ruler and make measurements of a segment. But if the segment is not horizontal, we have to rotate the ruler…

I tried many times to drag and rotate an object with Captivate, but so far, I never managed to do it correctly on a leftop as on mobile devices.

Using all the advises found on the Captivate Forum, and as my knowledge of Captivate increases, I finally do this :

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The ruler is in fact a multi-states object. Each state represents the ruler, with a rotation of 10°.

The trick is that the image of the ruler must be a square (or you will have distortion of the object)… with a transparent background. (in green on this image)

(The project on the web is here : http://soutien67.fr/math/activites/longueur/Longueurs_E03/index.html  

Happy Captivating !…

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2020-07-27 16:49:23
2020-07-27 16:49:23

Hi! So I need to make a version of this same type of activity, but I am super new to Captivate. I wondered what type of interaction you used to create the moveable ruler?

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2020-07-28 14:16:54
2020-07-28 14:16:54
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Hello !…

you have first to create a multistate object (the ruler).

Each state of this multistate object represents the ruler with a rotation of 10° (or whatever you like !…)… (see the advices in the previous post).

Then I just add butons and give them the action to “go to the previous (or next) state“ to simulate the rotation.

And that’s it !…

😉

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