Brett Rockwood
Brett Rockwood
Vice President at State Street Corporation
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"Gary, alpha channels do work in SL2 now. Just need to be FLV files. Note that they won't work in HTML5-only environments (iPads/iPhones w..."
  • over 7 years ago10/24/16 at 8:17 pm (UTC)
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Brett Rockwood replied to the discussion Been to any good classes lately?
"Get yourself to one of Articulate's Road Shows. They have something for all levels of experience. Others would Lynda.com as others have s..."
  • over 7 years ago10/21/16 at 12:29 pm (UTC)
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Brett Rockwood replied to the discussion Branching or Scenes
"It was pointed out to me recently that this works a little bit differently in SL2 it seems. When you put your triggers on the lightbox sl..."
  • over 7 years ago10/19/16 at 2:20 pm (UTC)
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"Not much I'd add here. States is what I'd go for. And like Phil said, I'd love to see an example when you're done."
  • over 7 years ago10/14/16 at 2:33 am (UTC)
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Brett Rockwood replied to the discussion Need help with slider functionality
"I like what you're doing here. And the suggestions that Tracy has about emphasis not being on the slider but on the data. I'd probably go..."
  • over 7 years ago10/14/16 at 2:28 am (UTC)
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Brett Rockwood replied to the discussion Next Button Gating
"I won't get into the fallacy of thinking that forcing someone to stay on a slide for x amount of time has any kind of educational value —..."
  • over 7 years ago10/07/16 at 4:53 pm (UTC)
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Brett Rockwood replied to the discussion Using Vertical Text in Japanese and Chinese
"Thanks Ashley. I will put in a request for that."
  • over 7 years ago10/06/16 at 7:29 pm (UTC)
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Brett Rockwood replied to the discussion Using Vertical Text in Japanese and Chinese
"Hi Ashley, Thanks for the reply. Here is a link that may be helpful: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizontal_and_vertical_writing_in_E..."
  • over 7 years ago10/06/16 at 5:49 pm (UTC)
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Brett Rockwood replied to the discussion Using Vertical Text in Japanese and Chinese
"Hi Ashley, I guess I wasn't being very clear... Japanese (and Chinese and Korean) can be written in two different ways. The first is the..."
  • over 7 years ago10/06/16 at 3:59 pm (UTC)
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Brett Rockwood started a new discussion Using Vertical Text in Japanese and Chinese
"Is it possible to have vertical text (top to bottom, right to left) text boxes when using Japanese or Chinese? It seems like I've seen th..."
  • over 7 years ago10/05/16 at 8:20 pm (UTC)
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Brett Rockwood replied to the discussion voice changing plugin?
"Two suggestions I have: 1) make sure you are using a quality microphone and it's set up properly, and 2) check the output setting in the ..."
  • over 7 years ago10/03/16 at 11:50 am (UTC)
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Brett Rockwood replied to the discussion Storyline 2 - character spacing problem
"hi Justin, Here is another side by side example using Century Gothic from InDesign and Storyline Preview."
  • over 7 years ago09/29/16 at 9:23 pm (UTC)
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Brett Rockwood replied to the discussion Storyline 2 - character spacing problem
"Got to agree with you here, Sean. Some typefaces look better than others — and Century Gothic looks particularly bad — but I'm not sure a..."
  • over 7 years ago09/20/16 at 1:32 pm (UTC)
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"Hi Christie, Anything new on this? Haven't heard anything from anyone..."
  • over 7 years ago09/18/16 at 2:41 am (UTC)
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Brett Rockwood replied to the discussion Lorem Ipsum
"Insert text box and type "=Loren()""
  • over 7 years ago09/16/16 at 3:25 pm (UTC)
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Brett Rockwood replied to the discussion Bug using custom navigation in Update 10?
"Hi Ashley, I figured the "bug" word would get your attention... :-) I don't have a video from update 9 and I may well have been using m..."
  • over 7 years ago09/07/16 at 7:58 pm (UTC)
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"Here is a link to a thread on rounding results scores  "
  • over 7 years ago09/07/16 at 12:51 pm (UTC)
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Brett Rockwood started a new discussion Bug using custom navigation in Update 10?
"I think this is a bug in Update 10. Here's the scenario. Create 2 scenes with 3 slides in each. Have the 3rd slide in Scene 1 jump to..."
  • over 7 years ago09/07/16 at 12:21 pm (UTC)
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Brett Rockwood replied to the discussion Is anyone using Storyline for Micro Learning
"As Chris said there is no reason SL could do short micro learning courses. You could create/size them to work on iPhones or Android if de..."
  • over 7 years ago09/06/16 at 5:17 pm (UTC)
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"Byron, one thing I noticed about your buttons was there was no visited state so I couldn't set up conditions on the Next button to force ..."
  • almost 8 years ago08/01/16 at 12:40 pm (UTC)
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"Byron, thanks for sharing this. The hover state happening on selected buttons has always bothered me a little and this is a nice solution."
  • almost 8 years ago07/29/16 at 12:00 pm (UTC)
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"But beware the Format Painter tool. While it can be a great timesaver for simple objects in a single format it doesn't work properly if y..."
  • almost 8 years ago07/22/16 at 12:53 pm (UTC)
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"As Jackie and Phil said, make it open navigation so users can explore on their own. Use realistic scenarios that involve the student maki..."
  • almost 8 years ago07/21/16 at 12:01 pm (UTC)
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Brett Rockwood replied to the discussion Tool to predesign Storyline structure
"I generally  start right out in Storyline creating shell scenes with first and last slides for each. If it's really complex I might map t..."
  • almost 8 years ago07/21/16 at 11:52 am (UTC)
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Brett Rockwood replied to the discussion Text box issue
"I frequently see this issue. It seems especially prevalent in quiz questions and the different states of the answer choices."
  • almost 8 years ago07/20/16 at 11:48 am (UTC)