New to Storyline - in fact, comparing Captivate to Storyline - How do I display a full screen background image of my own design without the Storyline player borders? I am trying to use a custom design, to include navigation that I have total control over (something Captivate does not offer yet). I used to use Lectora and Authorware before as well as the Articulate Studio. I may get my company to buy this software if we can gain full control of it .
Right-click your slide (in Story View or normal view).
Select Format Background
Insert from: File (and fiddle with the options as you like).
Set the menu and whatnot not to display:
To affect in individual slide:
In normal view, right-click empty space on your slide.
Select Properties
Uncheck everything
Or
In Story View, select a slide. On the right, you'll see the slide properties.
Set Player Features to "Custom"
Uncheck everything.
To affect default behavior (i.e. so if you set Player Features to Player Defaults, above):
Home Tab
Player (button, near the right side of the bar up top)
Features
Uncheck everything
As for what you actually want to know:
You'll find a lot of your player customization stuff in the player menu.
Also check out View -> Slide Master and View -> Feedback Master. With these, you can create triggers, buttons, etc. that will apply to every slide (or feedback box) using the selected Master or Layout.
You can control a lot of Storyline, especially if you don't mind writing triggers.
As you get into writing triggers or using Javascript, you'll find that you do NOT have access to most of Storyline's "under-the-hood" variables. For example, the position of an object on the screen is presumably controlled with numeric coordinates; however, I have yet to discover or hear of a hack that allows someone to write a trigger that interacts with those numbers.
Additional things to check out are Javascript and the Storyline SDK (software developer kit).
If what you want is a custom animation, do be aware that you can embed .swf files into a Storyline slide.
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Short answer:
Insert your background:
Set the menu and whatnot not to display:
To affect in individual slide:
Or
To affect default behavior (i.e. so if you set Player Features to Player Defaults, above):
As for what you actually want to know:
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