bullet point list with various bullets (square and that) with auto timing for the bullet text would be amazingly superb.

another one –
slideshare.net is a great place to share presentations. A widgets which should insert a link to slideshare and play it inside captivate as it does for youtube videos.

Retake Quiz – Extra controlls

I would like to control which slide # the retake quiz button jumps to.

Seeing that Mark already posted several nice types, bit difficult. A lot can be achieved with the Drag&Drop widget of Tristan.
1. A combi of multiple choice with sequence: user has first to select the appropriate choices, other choices should disappear, and then he should be able to drag them in sequence. Example: which tasks are necessary (from a multiple choice list) to achieve something, and then put them in sequence.
2. Easy way for Matching Question to use images in one column or in both
3. Possibility to have two correct answers with Sequence question
5. Advanced feedback as exists now for Multiple Choice with one correct answer, for some other types: MC with mulitple answers, Sequence, Matching, Hotspot
6. Hotspot question could use some extra layout/formatting possibilities
7. Probably impossible for the moment: answer should be kind of simple drawing (scientific) p.e. line resulting from a mathematic formula

I’d like to see a way for users of my captivate projects to take notes as they move through the project.

To be practical this would have to let them modify the notes as they go through the project. (so no storing them as a variable that then can’t be modified unless completely written over).

Ideally you would be able to cut and paste objects into the notes also.

Would really appreciate this sort of widget!

Thanks

james

Hi Yves,

I was thinking that there might be a file (perhaps even a simple txt file) that the user could open each time they needed it on their local machine. This way they would have access to their notes outside of the project.

I’m imagining something akin to notepad opening in the project and being saved by the users. There might be an icon on each page for them to open their notes on relevant slides.

This model would also allow them to add to, print etc outside of the project.

Reckon that can be done?

Thanks for thinking about it.

James

Hi Yves,

I may have found another way forward. I noticed that Jim Leichliter’s has produced a widget that allows you to put a variable in the default text box of a caption. I’ve used this to create a variable that works the way I need it to. By placing my variable $$notes$$ in the default text of a caption the last version of the notes is added to text box and the user can add to them. Cool!

My only problem now is that I can’t do much with the text box. No formatting, text wrapping etc.

I know there is a text area widget that ships with Captivate, but when I tried it out with Jim’s widget it didn’t accept the variable as default text.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

james

I would like a widget that will allow me to take URL variables and assign them to Captivate user variables. Jim Leichliter has a widget that will let you do the opposite (Variables in Button URL).

For a language teaching course, I would like to be able to add an audio file to a bubble containing the person’s speech, so that if the learner would like to listen to the audio and not just read the text, he would just click on the text bubble, and the audio file would play. If he wanted to hear it more than once, he would just have to click again and again on the bubble. The slide would not advance until the “NEXT” button were clicked. Currently, the audio file plays as soon as the text object becomes visible on the screen.

Thanks
Stephen

A scrolling text box that can handle html text. I really need this.

I agree with Garry`s post in May that it would be great to be able to add images to the Interactive Label Widget!

Michael, bit puzzled, because I always publish for the latest Flash player, so for the moment the posts have movies for Flash 10, and I doubt that even the ‘old’ ones (blog is only about one year old) were not published for Flash 9.
Bit strange to try to reach me using Yves’blog. Would have expected a comment on my blog, so that I know about which example you are talking because there are several posts. You can also reach me using the Adobe forums, by private message.

Hi Miles,

Beside the Interactive Label, which other widget doesn’t scale?

Whyves

An interactive combo box with partial score wil be a nice widget.

Hi Loraine,

Thanks for the idea. I thought about this too a while ago but never got around to do it.

Maybe in the future.

Captivate gives you a few button widgets…right? BUT it does not have an option to have the button point to “Execute Advance Actions.”

Think about what you could with a button that pointed to user defined events in captivate. I would use it for my own conditional jump to slide, action, or open or hide ToC and CC….and 10 other uses at the top of my head.

The main problem not having this button is to copy and paste a button on every slide because Captivate does not allow you to set a button, click box or slidelet for the duration of the project.

You would make a killing if you made this button (which could be set for duration of project) that pointed to Execute Advance Action.

Please- make my wish come true…

Thank you…