These tutorials look great can you tell me how to create a user login in a Captivate Project that can carry through to the results of quiz page?

You can achieve by using a Text Entry Box. Follow the below steps

1. Insert a Text Entry Box in the first slide of your project.
2. From TEB Properties->Options, uncheck "Validate user input" option. Uncheck Hint Caption option if needed.
3. Now select Advanced tab in Properties dialog
4. Enter a variable say "user_name" in the Variable Associated field and close the properties dialog
5. This variable will be automatically created in Captivate and will be available for Projects duration
6. Now go to Results slide.
7. Insert a Text Caption and insert the above variable into it.

Whatever value the user enters in the first slide will be displayed in the Results slide.

Hope it helps.

thanks

Hey everyone...great site!!!

I am trying to use the new scripting capabilities in Captivate 4 to get text fields to be validated without the use of an event like a click button or keypress. I want a user to be able to type text into a text field and if he types the correct txt the movie will move to the next slide. This is for training simiulations and I am suprised more people do not want this functionality. It mimics real world scenarios....Basically I want the user to type 858 into a text field move to the next slide and do something else...I dont want the user to have to hit any submit button or Tab or Enter...Makes sense right?

But how do i do it...The scripting features in Cap 4 only work on an Event. How do I get a script to continual check a field to see if the txt is correctly entered then perform an action?

Please advise...Any help would be so appreciated and would help 100's of others out there with the same problem...

(btw, the shortcut key method does not work because of the numpads)

Thanks so much

Chris from NYC

We are having trouble launching our simulations that include audio. They time out at about 50 to 75 % depending on their size. Any suggestions or tips to help prevent the timing out issue?

Thanks -

Brenna

Hi,

I have created an eLearning project that consists of a flash exe loading numbers of different captivate swfs into the exe.

This is working really well, however I would like to call a function that I have created inside the flash movie at the end of each captivate movie. Is there a way that I can call an ActionScript function from within a captivate movie?

I have seen tutorials showing how to call a JavaScript function which then calls an ActionScript function, but because I won't be loading this via an HTML page (only loading an EXE), this won't work.

Any suggestions would be very helpful.

Kind regards,

Duncan

Hi Chris, this is currently not possible. But it is a good usecase and we will consider implementing it in a future version.
Regards,
Shameer

Hi Duncan,You can leverage the new Widgets functionality in Cp4. Action Script functions can be called only through a Widget.
Regards,
Shameer

Hello,
I have a question regarding Captivate 4.
Our organization used to use Captivate 2. They recently purchased the new version Captivate 4.
Captivate 4 has a new feature: Text to Speech.
When I want to use this feature, I got the message said "Need to install with DVD or download"
What does it mean?

I went to Adobe website to see all the download products. I did not see there is a separate download for Text to Speech.

My question is
1) I got the message said "Need to install with DVD or download"
What does it mean?

2) Is the DVD a separate purchase or free download?

3) If it is a free download, where can I find it in your website?
I had gone to the section of downloading free trials.

Thanks!

Shu-Hua

Hi Shu-Hua, The Text-to-speech voices can be downloaded from the Captivate website www.adobe.com/captivate
Browse to the bottom of the page and under 'next steps' you will find a link that says 'Download NeoSpeech voices for Adobe Captivate'.
Regards,
Shameer

Hello,
Thanks for your quick reply.
I did find the download based on the information you provided.
However, that link takes me to the free trial download and we have to set up an account in order to download it.
Now my question is our library has already purchased Captivate 4…
1) Does that mean one of the staff from our library has to set up an account to be able to download this feature?
2) Since this is a unique new feature that you promote for this new Captivate 4 product, why don't you include it in the product instead of having us download it separately?
3) Our library is owned by the city, there is a guideline that we’re not allowed to download programs on our work computers. Only IT Department has the right to do so.
Is it possible for our IT Department contacts you directly to get the free DVD by mail?
Do they call the general customer service phone number posted on your website or you have separate contact phone number or email for Captivate product support?
Thanks! Have a nice day!
Shu-Hua

Hi Shu-Hua,
If you purchased and chose to download Cp from the Adobe store, the Text-to-speech (T2S) voices would have been a separate download link displayed to you. You can even now return to the store and locate the link. If you purchased a DVD, then the T2S voices are available on it, but have to be installed separately.
Regards,
Shameer

good day

i have faced problem when i want to convert text to speech by NeoSpeech Text to Speech Voices
i think the qality not that so good
it seems like cutting the word
can u help me

thanks

I have read all the books and looked at all the tutorials and can not fiqure out why my failure captions keep defaulting to a font called system (10). I have changed the font, tried apply, tried apply to all, and have set it up as my books say and when I press ok it defaults back to the system font. Do you have any ideas?

Hi Cindy, Delete the .dat file and try again. On XP, you can find this file at: C:\Documents and Settings\\Application Data\Adobe\Adobe Captivate\captivate_v40.dat

Hi,
I'm preparing a one day Captivate training for client. As I'm based in France I would like to know if we can configure Kate and Paul voices to convert text to speech in French ?
I know how to improve the prononciation but not how to change the language...??

Thanks in advance.

Cheers,
Brice.

@Brice: Currently Captivate does not provide language packs in French
Regards,
Shameer

I created a 35 question quizz in Captivate. Includes multiple choice, true/false and one matching. As suggested in quiz Tips, i added the SKIP button to allow users to skip a question. Problem is when the user gets to the last question, there doesn't appear to be any way to go back to the "skip"ed questions. I did not put in the "Back" button as I read somewhere that could alter the number of attempts and proper scoring. Can you give me any information on how I need to set this up?

Are Kate and Paul the only voices, or does neospeech have more voices?

thanks!

I want to open another project from a button,when i run the project and push the button theres a legend that says it´s not possible in the preview mode

I cannot get the T2S Pronunciation feature to work and I have not been able to get technical support to fix the feature for me.

I hope you can steer me to someone who can help.

When I try to use the dictionary feature, I get a message stating that my license has either expired or I need a verification file from a sales representative. My license is valid and each sales person I have contacted has been clueless about what a verification file is.

I have tried every suggestion from technical support to no avail. Since you wrote about the feature on the blog, I'm hoping you can help.

Hello,

I am working on a certificate, is there a way I can add a button to the widget to save the certificate as PDF in the student local computer? the print function works well but not every one has a printer. I want them to save the certificate as pdf or JPG.

Thank you in advance for your answer

hi, is their way to create TOC and note on left hand side.

I've been working on the Username/PW tutorial (chpt. 11) in the "Captivate 4 User Guide" Pdf that comes with the trial version and it doesn't seem like it's written for Cap 4. Is this the case? thx.

I have a button on the last slide of my project that should open a pdf document when clicked. However, it doesn't work. I've done this in the past and checked out how I did it in other successful projects and it looks just the same. In fact, the button worked only a month ago when I used it at a presentation. Any suggestions on what might be preventing the pdf from appearing?

Great site and info!

I hope you can help me. I want to create a listening quiz from the quiz templates. Is there anyway to place a button attached to an audio file in a quiz template? Or do you have another suggestion on how to accomplish that? thanks in advance.

Hi - is there an Australian accent available for the text to speech function? Or a British accent even? Thanks.

I currently have the Macromedia version of Captivate. In this version, I am unable to redirect test/quiz results to a printer. I am looking into purchasing Adobe Captivate v4. Does it have this capability? If not, is there a way to print test results through some sort of script?