Storyline Screen Capture Limitation?

May 21, 2012

Storyline's screen capture tool does not appear to allow a user to select a running application instead of a window or screen area.

In my case, it is limiting me from capturing a VMware application. Once I start recording in Storyline, and bring up the VMware's window, I'm unable to enter text in that application's text fields. However, when I use Captivate's "select application", I do not have this issue.

This is an important feature, should be addressed, but if anyone knows of a workaround, I'd sure appreciate it. I'd hate for this to prevent adoption of Storyline because otherwise it's a great tool!

11 Replies

tHOMAS eWING

almost 12 years ago05/21/12 at 9:24 am (UTC)

Is storyline compatible with studio? Can I use storyline to modify existing presenter files?

Rob Beck
Author

almost 12 years ago05/21/12 at 10:13 am (UTC)

Thomas....you may want to post your question to another thread....this one's subject is unlikely to get you a response.

Phil Mayor
Hero

almost 12 years ago05/21/12 at 11:58 am (UTC)

tHOMAS eWING said:

Is storyline compatible with studio? Can I use storyline to modify existing presenter files?

Thomas you can import presenter files into Storyline, I agree with Rob, it is always best to post new questions as a new thread

Helen Tyson
Partner

over 11 years ago08/07/12 at 6:48 am (UTC)

Any responses yet to Rob's original question?

I have a trainee who wants to capture from a remote desktop and although the capture does seem to work if you record Full Screen there is a white flash at the start of the recording which I think is when you have to select the remote application window.

Any suggestions of how we can prevent, or get rid of this?

Peter Anderson
Staff

over 11 years ago08/08/12 at 10:52 am (UTC)

Hi Helen,

Would you be able to send us a sample file of what you're describing? Use this link, and on the second page, you can attach the .story file. Thanks!

Tomer Rotem

over 11 years ago08/19/12 at 4:54 am (UTC)

Hi all,

I am very imppresed with Storyline. i wanted to procure several licences to my company but i saw this post and wonder if SL will capture our command line based applications.

So i tested Storyline and found out that it fails to capture Command Line applications when selecting one of the Step by Step modes.

BTW, No problem in demo (single slide) mode.

The problem is that It captures text commands as one single command.

You can go ahead and try to capture some CMD commands.
After selecting try me/test mode all the commands will appear as one.

Problem gets worse in other CLI based applications such as putty.

I think it may be related to the technology behind the way SL capture screen commands.

I also tried captivate and as Rob i managed to produce a good result in step by step modes.

Hope you will have solution for this problem..

Tnx

Bruce Graham
Hero

over 11 years ago08/19/12 at 6:29 am (UTC)

Tomer - welcome to Heroes.

Just to be on the safe side can you log this as a bug using the icon at the top-right of the Storyline GUI?

That way it will certainly get picked up.

Thanks

Bruce

Tomer Rotem

over 11 years ago08/19/12 at 6:36 am (UTC)

Hi Bruce,

I am not so familiar with SL and I didn’t find the bug log button in the top right corner.

Can you be more specific or post a picture of this button so I can find it?

Thanks,

Tomer

Bruce Graham
Hero

over 11 years ago08/19/12 at 6:41 am (UTC)

Tomer Rotem said:

Hi Bruce,

I am not so familiar with SL and I didn’t find the bug log button in the top right corner.

Can you be more specific or post a picture of this button so I can find it?

Thanks,

Tomer

Sorry - I was talking complete nonsense....

Try this:

http://www.articulate.com/support/contact/submit.php

Bruce