Adobe 65029940 - Captivate - PC User Manual page 228

CHAPTER 10
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Creating custom BMP playback controls
You can create custom BMP video playbars. Each BMP playback control is a series of bitmap images (BMP). The
images are stored in the C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Captivate 3\Gallery\PlaybackControls\BmpBars folder.
A playback control can have the following buttons:
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Plays the project (or restarts the project if Pause has been clicked).
Play
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Moves back one slide.
Back
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Moves forward one slide.
Forward
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Pauses the project (until Play is clicked).
Pause
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Closes the web browser or project window.
Exit
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Restarts the project from the beginning.
Rewind
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Displays information about the project such as name, company, and copyright. (The information that
Info
appears is taken from project properties.)
BMP button naming conventions
Each button has two bitmaps: one bitmap showing the button in its normal Up state, and one bitmap showing the
button pushed down. The naming convention for these two bitmaps is as follows:
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style-playbuttonup.bmp
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style-playbuttondown.bmp
The filename consists of the following elements:
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Name of the playback control ("style")
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Hyphen ("-")
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Name of the button ("play")
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Either "buttonup" or "buttondown"
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Bitmap file extension (".bmp")
To create custom BMP playback controls:
Create new buttons using a graphics software package such as Fireworks or Adobe Photoshop. Save the buttons
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as separate bitmap (BMP) images. Use the naming conventions outlined above when you name and save your
bitmap images.
Create a bitmap that contains a preview image for the whole control and name the file "style-preview.bmp. "
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