Web Object get rid of scrollbars with table of contents showing!

Well the quick solution is to get a bigger screen.

One option would be to adjust your Articulate player template to 'lock presentation at the optimal size'.  This is under the 'Other' tab in the Player Template window.  This will lock the articulate player at it's intended size and and it will prevent scaling of the content area.  Though this might mean that now on smaller screens that the Articulate player itself it to tall.  When you factor in browser address and toolbars you don't have a ful 768 height for content.

One thing we did to prevent this issue (a bit) was to make sure that when a user clicked the link to launch the lesson that it was opened up in a new browser window that didn't have the tool bar on it, this gets you a good deal of extra pixels for the viewable content area.  Typically you can set this in your LMS or you can do this with straight JavaScript as well if your not in an LMS.

Hope that helps a bit.

Does changing the width and height to 100% in your index file help?

Thanks, both of you. I'll see if they'll allow me to open it in a new window...I wish I could just tell all 5,000 of them to get bigger screens, but prolly better not

The 100% wide tip helped a little...I can now see the whole captivate movie in the window, but the vertical scroll bar is still triggered. Still that might be just fine. It would just be nice if I could not trigger the vertical scroll bar...I just know they're going to ask me to get rid of it, since you can see the whole captivate movie.

See the improvement? http://www.hiveminddesign.co/test/player.html

Thanks again...I'm open to more ideas for how to get rid of that dang scrollbar. Thanks, dear community.

A quick google search for html hide vertical scrollbar came up with this:

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I'm not an HTML expert but there might be a solution out there

Thanks, Blair...a quick search yielded this little CSS snippet that did nothing.

My html now looks like this:

html {
overflow:auto;
}

and the result is this: http://www.hiveminddesign.co/test/player.html

Still there...sigh.

Sorry, I just saw that my post didn't display properly. What I found was:

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Sorry this isn't working for you, I feel your frustration. I had the same issue before and had to settle for opening it in a new window at the full size to remove the scrollbars.

I appreciate that...but even opening it in a new window at full size doesn't get rid of the scrollbars. At least now I can see my entire captivate movie in the pane...but it's annoying there isn't an obvious way to get rid of that vertical bar. It just looks sloppy and I have no good reason to tell my client why I can't make it go away.

Anyone?

Aarrgh, still didn't post properly.

I just tried something different that worked for me, not sure if it will work for you. In your index file set the object height and width to 100%. Then for the embed src height and width set to 99%

smart! I'll try it!

BLAIR! It WORKED! I worship the ground you walk on! I'll send you cookies! THANK YOU!!!! Now, I won't look like more of an idiot than I already am!

http://www.hiveminddesign.co/test/player.html

How on earth did you figure that out?

For posterity's sake, here's the web object code that placed the movie in the right spot and got rid of the scrollbars:

And thank you, again, Blair.

okay...it won't let me cut and paste html now..but it did before...hmmmm

see attached...

Awesome, glad it worked out. I have no idea how it came to me, it must have been divine html inspiration

I love this tip! Combined with this one i am now able to insert my webobjects (from Captivate) into a 'no sidebar' slide and have them look quite oke.

I still have some white space around my webobject, but. I'm satisfied!