Comments on: Adobe Captivate 5 system variables

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 19:47:28 +0000

@Jay – yes you need to edit the certificate.fla file and that is done with Adobe Flash. You can download a 30-day free trial of Flash from Adobes website, but if you haven’t used Flash before then you are going to have a hard time modifying the widget since it’s not as easy as one would think.

/Michael

By: Jay

Jay — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 19:42:58 +0000

@Colin or @Michael -

I am looking to edit the certificate widget for the same reason! But I do not know how to edit or customize the widget file and how to implement this. Do I need to edit the certificate.fla file? If so, how? What tool is required to edit?

I need to get rid of the Course Duration option all together. Please help!

Thanks,
Jay

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 20:18:00 +0000

@Colin,

Captivate widgets can pretty much handle everything and what you describe wouldn’t be a big problem to implement in the Certificate widget.

/Michael

By: colin

colin — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 03:41:47 +0000

Hi,I am looking to edit the certificate widget so it takes the system time information and inputs the date for the date the course was taken. But also to include the expiry date of two years from that date. Can captivate widgets handle that? This would be in the course duration section.

thank you

Regards,
Colin

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 17:24:57 +0000

Hi James,

Great – thanks for the info. I will update the post and PDF with your information

/Michael

By: wheat

wheat — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 19:48:18 +0000

Hi Michael. I did a quick test and determined that cpInfoIsStandalone is used to detect if the movie is playing back as a stand-alone Windows (*.exe) or Mac (*.app) executable rather than as a SWF embedded in a web page. Default is 0. Returns a 1 when playing back as an *.exe. I haven’t tested it on my Mac yet. But it worked on Cp5 on WinXP.

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:38:30 +0000

Hi Abao,

The system variables are for the most part only available to the Captivate system for reading and writing. However, you can create your own user defined variables in Captivate 5 and use that for your purpose.

/Michael

By: Abao

Abao — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:15:51 +0000

Hello CPGuru,

Thanks for posting the Captivate variables! I tried to add a CLICK box to be included in the quiz report but unfortunately it score is not being recorded in the captivate quiz variables. I think that quiz variables only works for objects created using the quiz slides but does not work for objects that you add to a slide. Like a click box or buttons. Is there any captivate variables that records the score of a CLICK box or Buttons?

Thanks