Issues Remoting in to Storyline

Hi Brett,

I have the same thing here. My computer is in Cologne and I'm working remotely on it from Belgium.

Have you noticed that when you drag an icon across the window, the screen becomes normal during the drag?

When I preview your scene/slide, all is normal. 

An other issue is when you use the characters that come with Storyline, sometimes they are substituted by lareg red crosses...

I changed my way of working. I do the rough work at home and the fine @ work

Geert

Hi Geert

Interesting. I'm at work now so I can't try it out but will do so later. I wonder if this should be a bug report...

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That Brett,

I don't know, I'velearned to live with it

It’s a bit inconvenientnevertheless I can’t complain.

At home I do the trigger bits,the scene logic and the rough visual stuff.

The rest I do @ work if not myboss might question what I’m doing there :D

Cheers

G.

Yes, I've experienced the same thing. When I was training others in our training lab, they remoted into their PCs as that was where the software was installed. The background of the slide is offset when you remote in - which is very annoying but it doesn't impact what you build. You just have to keep in mind not to align to the offset background because that's not actually the perimeters of the slide itself.

As the other gentleman mentioned, everything previews fine so you can quickly tell if things are lined up correctly or not but it is a bit annoying - I agree.

Very interesting, thanks for commenting. I don't know if this is technically a bug of SL but since we are all experiencing the same behavior I think it's something that should be brought to the attention of the Articulate folks. I'll submit it.

Thanks for the thread, guys!

If you see a white box with a red X when attempting to insert a character into your Storyline project, it means your computer's color depth is set too low. I'm wondering if all these issues may be related to that, as the slide appearing bumped up and to the left is another common symptom of color depth. 

Hey guys,

Just wanted to check back in and confirm that it appears color depth is indeed the culprit for the remote desktop issues described above. Check it out:

Thanks Peter. Very interesting. I don't use Remote Desktop to log in; I use ASG which is browser based and I'm not sure if there is any way to adjust color depth specifically. All of the settings that I'm aware of are at the highest setting (the remote PC with SL and the client, a MacBook Pro and Safari). I wonder if the ASG implementation is hard wired to a lower color depth to save bandwidth. Does anyone know if that could be the case?

That sounds likely, Brett.

Could you share the Screenr above with the Support Team at ASG and ask them if there is a way to modify color depth settings within their application?

That's a good idea (if I can find out who/where they are). Thanks for the help Justin.

Hi All,

I still have the issue. I've set my color depth to millions (and all other variations).

It might be because I'm using an iMac en remote connect to a desktop in the office...

Still some of my colleagues may have a similar problem and it may be a solution for them

On the other hand, it is to me not related to SL, but to the VPN realm...

Thanks for the support guys

Geert

Hi Geert et al,

I checked further last night from home regarding color depth and it does turn out that ASG has throttled back the color depth on the host machine to Medium 16Bit and there is no option to increase it; the Color quality drop down only contains 16 bit. So for my case it would seem that this is the issue. I too am using a Mac to remote in but I don't think that has anything to do with it.