Question About Using JavaScript in Captivate
I recently got a copy of your book Essentials of Adobe Captivate 2 and would like to explore JavaScripting (i.e., Button--execute JavaScript). Basically we would like to script the "back" button to go back to the exact page last viewed, not the page before the page viewed. Any help you could provide would be great appreciated. Thank you. - MSJ, Raytheon Company.
Answer:
You can certainly attach a JavaScript to a button (show the Properties of the button, select Execute JavaScript from the On Success drop down menu, click the three dots you see to the right and type your JavaScript in the window that appears. The JavaScript you create can force the browser playing your Captivate movie to perform some wonderful tricks. However, jumping back to a "marked" slide won't work without taking your Captivate project into Flash and adding some ActionScript. You can easily take your Captivate project into Flash (that only takes a few seconds assuming you have Flash 8 or newer on your PC). However, it's the ActionScript part that won't be easy unless you have a working knowledge of ActionScript.
Follow-Up to a Question from Last Week
Here was the Question: We have an on-going need to change sections or individual slides and relevant voiceovers in movies. This presents a challenge when trying to splice into an existing movie and maintaining the same sound quality.
Due to our environment, using a professional sound recording studio is not an option. In addition, we need to produce the movies in two or three languages. Completing a full voice over each time is unrealistic.
How can we maintain a "reasonable" level of sound quality without a professional studio or completely re-recording the voiceover. I believe the use of quality microphones and recording equipment may aid our cause--it's also where I'm stuck since I haven't a clue about this area (either hardware or software). Can you help?
Follow-Up
Juan R. Gomez, Quality & Continuous Improvement Manager of Infotech Aerospace Services provides the following:
"You can always have a high quality text to speech software application do the trick for you. They are relatively inexpensive and voice quality in terms of pronunciation and realistic sound has gotten very good and affordable. I suggest the following web-sites to start looking."
If you have additional suggestions on the best way to maintain audio quality for Captivate audio files that you record yourself, please let me know. I'll be happy to publish your responses in this newsletter next week.
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"It's the ActionScript part that won't be easy..."
Fine, that's fine, so where do we go next? Can this be done? If so, what are the steps?
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Posted by: anna | July 07, 2009 at 06:56 PM