This is the FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) about the Interactive Label Widget. You will find common problems and their solutions:
Is the widget working in Captivate 5?
Yes! The widget is also working in Captivate 5 but the demo version is only working in Captivate 4.
When I publish my presentation, the Label shows up blurred.
You are using the widget trial version. If you have bought the widget and you are still experiencing this effect, make sure that you have not left any trial widget in your presentation.
The last letter of my text if cut off when I use an italic formatting.
It seems that Flash has some issues calculating the text width when an italic formatting is applied. The side effect is that the last letter is partially cut off. This is more apparent with certain type of fonts. You can try to change your font for Arial as it seems to be immune to this problem. If you really want to keep the same font face, add an extra space after the last letter. Just make sure that the space is the same font size that the letter it precedes.
The widget keeps flickering when at the end of the slide.
It seems that Interactive Widgets in general demonstrate this behavior if their life extends to the end of the slide. The solution is quite simple; just make sure that the widget disappears 0.1 second before the end of the slide. This should solve the issue.
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September 16th, 2010 at 17:41
I’m a little confused by the language of the license. If I purchase a copy of the interactive label widget, am I free to include the widget in the published courses I develop for my clients? Or do I need a different license for each client?
September 16th, 2010 at 21:00
Hi Garry,
If you only develop courses for your client, then you only need to buy one widget per courseware developer. If you are the only developer then you only buy one license for you.
The provision I made was in case someone buys the widget and includes it in a suite of Captivate components that he resells.
Hope that it clarifies it for you, if not, let me know.
Yves
October 12th, 2011 at 02:45
Hi Yves,
How can I add audio to the title and the description text in this widget?
Cheers,
Peter
October 12th, 2011 at 06:20
Hi Peter,
Audio is supported via the standard mechanisms for Interactive Widgets. The trick I use is to add the audio track to the hint and success captions. I then make the captions invisible. Thus, the audio is triggered when the captions are shown but since they are invisible, only the audio can be heard.
Hope that helps!
Yves
October 12th, 2011 at 06:49
Awesome Yves, thanks!
I didn’t realise that audio could be added to the hint and success captions – this solves my problem.
Cheers,
Peter
October 13th, 2011 at 10:30
I am trying to add advanced actions to a slide with several labels on it. What I want to do is make the person read all 5 labels before they can continue. I was using “on show description” as the success criteria and setting up variables for each label to have a value of 0 at first and 1 on success. Can this be done with you widget? It doesn’t seem to be working and I was wondering if it was my setup, or if it was something outside what the widget can do.
October 13th, 2011 at 22:50
Hi Laura,
You can do what you want by creating an advanced action. First, create a variable that will track the number of widgets that have been triggered. e.g. “activatedWidget”. Then create a conditional action where IF (activatedWidget >= 4) continue ELSE activatedWidget = activatedWidget + 1.
That seems to work fine. When you activate the 5th widget, the movie will automatically advance.
Yves
October 14th, 2011 at 09:47
That worked great, thanks!
March 26th, 2012 at 09:26
Hello-
Can you add an image to the text? I used the Interactive label to show areas of an application, and I want to make the users be familiar with icons, and I want it to include it in the text. Is this possible?
Thanks-
Ermie
March 26th, 2012 at 17:49
Hi Ermie,
Unfortunately, this is not possible with the widget.
Whyves
March 27th, 2012 at 08:50
Hello Whyves,
Thank you so much for the quick response. I love your interactive label widget. I have been reading your blogs, and creating widgets interest me. Is there a book or online classes on how to create widgets? What skill sets do I need to create my own widgets?
Sincerely-
Ermie
March 28th, 2012 at 06:19
Hi Ermie,
If you want to take on Widgets, the first skill you will need is to learn ActionScript 3 (AS3). For this, there are numerous books on the subject; just browse the web or Amazon and look at the book’s rating. I’m more of a self learner so I wouldn’t know which book exactly to recommend to you. After that, for Widget specific topics, I suggest that you take a look at this presentation (http://www.flash-factor.com/als2011/ALS11_Captivate_Widget_101.pdf) and that you also take a look at the blogroll on this site. Jim, Michael and Tristan have very good articles describing the widgets and their inner workings.
Hope that helps!
Whyves
March 28th, 2012 at 08:23
Thank you so much for the information!
Ermie
April 29th, 2012 at 18:14
Hi,
I purchased the interactive label widget and need to know how to skin it in Flash to add a different look to it. I opened InteractiveLabelWidget_skinned.fla and read the as comments:
Make sure that your
// movieclip are exported to the first frame and put the movieclip name
// in the second parameter of the function. NOTE: do NOT put the name within
// quotes.
What do I change to skin the button? It’s not clear what I’m supposed to change as the pentagone up, down and over movieclips are already exported for ActionScript.
Thanks,
Dan
April 29th, 2012 at 18:34
Hi Dan,
The simplest is to replace the content of the pentagone clips with what you want. In the cases where you don’t want to have the name “pentagone” for movie clips, you just create your own clips, export them for actionscript and replace the pentagone name (in the function your pointing to) for your own movieclip names.
Hope that helps!
Whyves