Adobe CAPTIVATE 5 Help Manual page 42

Last updated 4/22/2010
Change keyboard shortcuts for recording
You can choose your own keyboard shortcuts for actions that are involved when recording a project using the
Preferences dialog box. For example, the End key (in Windows) or Cmd + Enter (Mac OS) is used to stop recording a
project in Adobe Captivate. You can change that by entering a different key in the dialog box.
1 Select Edit > Preferences (Windows) or Adobe Captivate > Preferences (Mac OS).
2 In the Preferences dialog box, select Keys from the Recording menu.
3 Click inside the field that you want to change.
4 Type the keyboard shortcut.
Set Preferences for the different modes
Some of the options for recording modes are disabled in Adobe Captivate. The reason for disabling the options is based
on the logic for recording in that mode. However, you can still enable some of the options if you have a special
requirement.
For example, one wouldn't usually add text captions in an assessment movie. So, the options for text captions are not
enabled in Adobe Captivate. You can enable them in the Preferences dialog box if you have a special requirement.
Select Edit > Preferences (Windows) or Adobe Captivate > Preferences (Mac OS).
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In the Preferences dialog box, select Modes from the Recording menu.
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In the Mode menu, select the recording mode you want to customize.
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Option
Add Text Captions
Convert Tool Tips To Rollover
Captions
Show Mouse Location And Movement Displays mouse movements during autorecording.
Add highlight boxes on click
Add Click Boxes On Mouse Click
Automatically Add Text Entry Boxes
For Text fields
Change recording defaults for objects
Adobe Captivate uses a default set of styles when inserting objects such as text captions and highlight boxes during
recording. You can change these default settings using the Preferences dialog box.
DRAFT
Description
Automatically creates captions based on user and system actions performed during
autorecording. The text captions use the labels in the application to describe a step. For
example, if the user clicks File in the menu bar, a text caption with the text, "Select the File
menu" is created automatically.
Automatically converts any tool tips on the screens you are capturing to rollover captions. Tool
tips are small floating text windows that appear when the mouse hovers over buttons. This
option is not selected by default for any of the recording modes.
Automatically adds a highlight box around the area where the mouse is clicked.
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Automatically creates click boxes whenever you click screens you are autorecording.
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Enables or disables the hint, success, and failure captions.
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Sets the number of times the user can click before the movie moves to the next slide.
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Enables cursor display when the user moves the mouse over the mouse areas
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Automatically creates text entry boxes whenever you click text boxes you are autorecording.
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Enables or disables the hint, success, and failure captions.
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Sets the number of times the user can enter text within the same text entry box before the
movie moves to the next slide.
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