Advanced Actions - Adobe CAPTIVATE 5 Help Manual

Last updated 4/22/2010
Number of slides in the project (not including hidden slides).
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rdIsMainMovie
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Advanced actions

You can use scripting in Adobe Captivate to do the following:
• Enhance the interactivity of Adobe Captivate projects by handling complex, and condition-based interaction
scenarios.
•
Control the movie.
Advanced Actions model
The scripting for the advanced actions model in Adobe Captivate is based on the Object-Event-Action model.
Events on an interactive object, such as mouse-clicks, trigger actions that are defined for that event. You can handle
complex interaction scenarios by scripting your own actions and applying them to the various interactive objects. The
scripting editor in Adobe Captivate helps you script custom actions for interactive objects.
You can use the following options to define actions for interactive objects in Adobe Captivate:
Provide if ... else conditions with and/or operators when scripting actions.
Conditional Action
Use a single script to run multiple actions in a sequence. Although the user interface provides a way
Standard Action
to run multiple actions, it is restricted to the actions available in Adobe Captivate. During scripting, it is possible for
you to combine actions defined during scripting with predefined actions in Adobe Captivate.
Best practice is that you go through the tutorial to get a better understanding of the possibilities of scripting in Adobe
Captivate.
Create advanced actions
1 Select Project > Advanced Actions.
2 Select the action type:
To create an if ... else condition for your script.
Conditional Action
To customize one of the predefined actions in Adobe Captivate.
Standard Action
3 In the Action Name, specify a name for the action.
4 Click the add icon.
Complete writing the code with the supplied options. Any option that has not been assigned a value is indicated by
5
the red icon. If you do not set these values, it results in an error when you try to save the script.
6 Click Save to save the script.
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