Does Captivate have a “Button Set” feature?
Here is what I mean by a “button set” feature:
I’m creating a tabbed interaction with 6 tabs. When the user clicks Tab 1, the tab’s state will change to “active” (different shade of blue than the normal state). When the user clicks Tab 2, tab 2’s state will change to “active” and change tab 1’s state to “Visited”, and so forth. However, the user can choose which tab they want to start with, so the user will not always go in order…1, 2, 3, etc.
I have seen in other software where you can group all the buttons together into a button set, so that the button’s will change it’s own state to active and change which ever button was active before the click action to visited automatically. The only thing we as the developer needed to do was indicate which content the action needed to display (and possibly indicate that all the other content that needs to be hidden).
Can this be done in Captivate without having to set up a variable and create a conditional advance action for each button?
Forgot to tell that the Visited state will appear automatically when you have clicked a button, it is the Current state that needs to be set by actions, if it is different from the Visited state . The last one is an InBuilt state, whereas ‘Visited’ is a custom state. Look in my blog for more details about states and state commands.
You cannot groups in Change state. There is no ‘set’ feature which is doing what you want automatically but it is pretty easy to do with shared or advanced actions. The Quick Start projects have plenty of examples of that workflow if you are on 11.5.1.
It helps when you mention the version of Captivate you are suging.
Oh, yes, I’m using 11.5.1.
I was afraid that may be the answer. I was hoping for a short cut.
Thank you for your help!!!
Have a look at the QSPs, the click/reveal slides and some of the menu slides are using Current and Visited states.
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