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Mastering Adobe Captivate 2019 - Fifth Edition

By : Dr. Pooja Jaisingh, Damien Bruyndonckx
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Mastering Adobe Captivate 2019 - Fifth Edition

By: Dr. Pooja Jaisingh, Damien Bruyndonckx

Overview of this book

Adobe Captivate is used to create highly engaging, interactive, and responsive eLearning content. This book takes you through the production of a few pieces of eLearning content, covering all the project types and workflows of Adobe Captivate. First, you will learn how to create a typical interactive Captivate project. This will give you the opportunity to review all Captivate objects and uncover the application's main tools. Then, you will use the built-in capture engine of Captivate to create an interactive software simulation and a Video Demo that can be published as an MP4 video. Then, you will approach the advanced responsive features of Captivate to create a project that can be viewed on any device. And finally, you will immerse your learners in a 360o environment by creating Virtual Reality projects of Adobe Captivate. At the end of the book, you will empower your workflow and projects with the newer and most advanced features of the application, including variables, advanced actions, JavaScript, and using Captivate 2019 with other applications. If you want to produce high quality eLearning content using a wide variety of techniques, implement eLearning in your company, enable eLearning on any device, assess the effectiveness of the learning by using extensive Quizzing features, or are simply interested in eLearning, this book has you covered!
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
7
Working with Quizzes
14
Variables and Advanced Actions

Working with the built-in states of buttons

The multi-states feature allows you to define the rollover, down, and visited states of your buttons. This is what you will explore using the following steps:

  1. Use the Filmstrip to go to slide 4 of the Chapter05/takeTheTrain.cptx file.
  2. Select the Continue button in the lower-right corner of the slide. Remember that this button is a rounded rectangle Smart Shape used as a button.
  3. At the top of the Properties inspector, click the State View button.

This action opens the State View of the selected button. All the objects of the slide are dimmed, except the selected Continue button you are viewing the states of.

Also notice that the Filmstrip panel is now the Object State panel. It displays the three built-in states of the selected button. This is shown in the following screenshot:

These three states are as follows:

  • The Normal state is the initial Default state. (You can set any other custom state as default by right-clicking the state...