October 27, 2021
Having trouble limiting screen captures in trying to create an assessment-style software simulation with Captivate
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October 27, 2021
Having trouble limiting screen captures in trying to create an assessment-style software simulation with Captivate
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Hello, folks. I have limited experience as a Captivate user – definitely not an expert. my environment is Adobe Captivate 2019 on macOS Big Sur (11.6). What I want to do: use Captivate to just capture a series of screen shots and then tie these together with click boxes so that in going from screen image n to image n+1, you’d click just where you would if you were using the software of interest in a “live” way – so, a simulated demonstration. I did that once last year, and it worked out just fine, but my memory of how I did that is fuzzy (based on a video tutorial I can no longer locate). Here’s my problem: even though I think I set up Captivate to do an assessment-style software simulation, and I indicated that I only wanted to capture content for a particular application (happens to be my Firefox browser), Captivate seems to capture whatever’s in the “red box” (not just the Firefox window, as desired) whenever I move my cursor via my MacBook’s trackpad (not just when I click on something). My question: How can I get Captivate to capture ONLY Firefox screens, even as, while I’m using Firefox, I also go to a Word document to look up some reference stuff (in other words, don’t capture images of the Word document on my screen), and ONLY when I click on a Firefox screen (not when I just move my cursor)? I’d be OK with just manually pushing a key (or key combo) to capture screen images, and I’ll string them together later – if I were to do that (only capture a screen image when I press a certain key or key combo), how would I do that?

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Nov 7, 2021
Nov 7, 2021

Why not use software simulation in Training mode? You can easily delete any superfluous slides when editing. Or you can also pause the capture while in a non-to-be-captured situation and resume after that situation.

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