Comments on: Pause widget for Adobe Captivate 4

By: Quick Tip: How do you pause a slide in Adobe Captivate | CP Guru - Adobe Captivate Widgets

Fri, 05 Aug 2011 07:55:24 +0000

[...] you are using Adobe Captivate 4 (AS2) then you can use this free Pause Widget from my site to automatically pause your slides 1.5 seconds before the timeline runs [...]

By: Dusty

Dusty — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 11:59:23 +0000

Good deal. Thanks for the link, Michael.

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 13:08:14 +0000

@ Dusty – Sorry I missed your comment ealier.. I wont be updating this particular widget, but James Wheat has released an AS3 version of a similar widget so go grab that one instead – http://wheatblog.com/2010/06/pausemenow-as3-widget-for-adobe-captivate-version-1/

/Michael

By: Dusty

Dusty — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:25:45 +0000

Hey Michael,

So… now that CP5 is out, any chance you’ll be upgrading this handy little widget for AS3?

Not even close to subtle,
-Dusty.

By: Manoharan

Manoharan — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 06:29:24 +0000

Thanks Michael for your quick response and alternative solution.

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 20:14:30 +0000

@Manoharan – This is unfortunately a behaviour that the Adobe engineers have implemented. A click box or interactive object will automatically resume play back after it has been clicked. One work around is to insert 5 more click boxes that will pause your project again after each of your interactive click boxes, but this is not fool proof. Another option is to create the interaction in Flash instead and then have Flash send a “resume” command to Captivate once the objective has been reached. This is how I normally do it.

/Michael

By: Manoharan

Manoharan — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 11:15:44 +0000

Hi,
First I would like to thank for giving this pause widget. I have used in my e-learning project. Its working fine.

My Doubt is this: In one slide I have 5 click boxes(I have checked the option “pause project until user clicks”). Each click box will reveal a text caption by clicking it. (I have this pause widget in very first slide and i have set this available for all slide by setting rest of the project option). In output , in that particular slide, when user clicks any one of the click box slide is getting advanced i mean its going to next slide. Can you help me out to get rid of this issue?

Thanks in advance
Manoharan.A

By: Denise Wilson

Denise Wilson — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 20:14:09 +0000

What if you have 4 buttons on a slide. The buttons navigate just fine BUT if the user clicks on teh slide or waits to long, the slide continues on. I have the slide properties sent to no action on slide exit. I have the button set to if user clicks outside of button no action….now what?

By: Manny

Manny — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:47:39 +0000

The question I have is why would anybody just have a runaway function such as play without the ability to shut the thing off internally. I am trying to do a complex interface with multiple buttons and every time I click anywhere the player takes off. Very fustrating to work with. Should also support property values for things like rectangle fill color or text displays that don’t select when you click them so you could use conditions statements to change status of an object. This tool could be very powerful just need to mature. Can’t wait to see if Adobe picks up on such minor yet powerful functions.

By: admin

admin — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 18:43:31 +0000

Hi Larue,

You mean that this widget doesn’t work for you?

/Michael