unfortunately you do not have layers, states and scenes in Captivate. But there are two little workarounds that you can "imitate" layers and states.
1.) You can try to use "advanced actions". The content of the former layer is invisble in the beginning. Then you can activate it with advanced actions.
2.)Of course, you cannot really rebuild states. Buf if you are interested in the "selected state" - you can archieve sth. similar with variables. You give a variable to a button. If it is clicked in the button, the variables gets +1. Now you know if the value of the variable is 1,3,5,7,9... it is similar to the selected state. 0,2,4,6,8 is not selected.
3.) There are no scenes but at least you can jump to specific slide. This is not an equivalent and there is no workaround - as far as I know.
Captivate has a lot of other qualities and advantadges. Making interactions on a slide in an easy way is not one of them.
You an simulate state changes in CP by using bitmaps and advanced actions. Layers can be simulated with groups of objects, see an example of a lightbox-style popup here: http://dev.keypointlearn.com/xcl70_Cap/DetailPopup/ Instead of scenes like in SL you can organize slides into groups. Hope hat helps.
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Hi Howie,
unfortunately you do not have layers, states and scenes in Captivate. But there are two little workarounds that you can "imitate" layers and states.
1.) You can try to use "advanced actions". The content of the former layer is invisble in the beginning. Then you can activate it with advanced actions.
2.)Of course, you cannot really rebuild states. Buf if you are interested in the "selected state" - you can archieve sth. similar with variables. You give a variable to a button. If it is clicked in the button, the variables gets +1. Now you know if the value of the variable is 1,3,5,7,9... it is similar to the selected state. 0,2,4,6,8 is not selected.
3.) There are no scenes but at least you can jump to specific slide. This is not an equivalent and there is no workaround - as far as I know.
Captivate has a lot of other qualities and advantadges. Making interactions on a slide in an easy way is not one of them.
Best regards
Ralf
Each Captivate version comes with comprehensive Help documentation, here is the one for CP8: http://helpx.adobe.com/captivate/topics.html. There is also a useful blog with lots of tutorials and recorded webinars, see here: http://blogs.adobe.com/captivate/
You an simulate state changes in CP by using bitmaps and advanced actions. Layers can be simulated with groups of objects, see an example of a lightbox-style popup here: http://dev.keypointlearn.com/xcl70_Cap/DetailPopup/ Instead of scenes like in SL you can organize slides into groups. Hope hat helps.
thanks everyone. Some really useful stuff there. Greatly appreciated
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