Macromedia captivate 2-getting started User Manual

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Chapter 3:  Basics

The following option is in the Set shortcut key area:

Select keys

  Click to select a key combination for users to press when submitting responses. 

The current shortcut is displayed to the left of the button.

Note: If your Adobe Captivate project is displayed in a browser, set shortcut keys that won’t 
conflict with common browser shortcuts. For example, F1 is frequently used as a keyboard 
shortcut to display help. The Control, Alt and Shift keys map to the Control, Option, and Shift keys 
on Macintosh computers, respectively.

5.

Click the Options tab. This tab lets you design how the click box looks. Select from the 
following options:

Display for 

Specify the timing of the click box appearance. From the pop-up menu, select 

one of the following options. 

■

Specific time

  Choose this option and type the number of seconds the click box appears 

to control the exact duration of the click box.

■

Rest of slide

  Choose this option to have the click box appear the entire duration of the 

slide.

Appear after [#] seconds 

Specify the number of seconds that should pass before the click 

box appears on the slide. 

Hint caption 

Select this option to include a hint caption. (The hint caption appears when 

users move the mouse over the click box.)

Success caption 

Select this option to include a success caption (for example, 

Congratulations!).

Failure caption 

Select this option to include a failure caption (for example, Sorry, please try 

again).

Show hand cursor over “hit” area 

Select this option to have the hand appear when a user 

moves the mouse over the click box. 

Stop slide audio when clicked 

Select this option if you want the slide audio to stop playing 

when the user clicks the click box. This option stops only slide audio, not background audio. 
Also, only a mouse click on the click box stops the audio; using a shortcut key combination 
does not stop the audio.

Pause project until user clicks 

Select this option if you want the project to stop playing 

until the user clicks the click box.

Double mouse click 

Select this option to allow users to double-click the click box. 

Pause for success/failure captions 

Select this option to have the project pause until all 

success and failure captions (see explanations for captions above) have displayed for the user to 
read.