Scripting Enhanced Interactions in Adobe Captivate 5: Advanced Actions, Variables and Text-to-Speech

by Waylne Pascall

Overview

This book is intended for those who have already mastered the fundamentals on using Adobe Captivate 5. In particular, it targets developers and designers desiring to master using Advanced Actions and Variables to achieve greater interactivity in Captivate projects. This book goes beyond providing mere step by step tutorials on how to use advanced actions, by providing the instruction in the context of five real-life scenarios. Each scenario applies advanced actions and variables in a different way. Each scenario is a little more complex than the previous. They are presented with clear sequential screenshots of each step, so that you can easily follow along using your Captivate software. In addition, one chapter is dedicated towards achieving professional results in text-to-speech projects. If you are a new user to Adobe Captivate 5, we recommend that you also read “Adobe Captivate 5 – the Quick Visual Guide.” Learn Step-by-step on the following subjects :

Introduction to Variables and Advanced Actions
Scripting for Advanced Actions and Variables In 5 different interactions
Scenario 1 – Clicking each image for information
Scenario 2 – Clicking each image for information with navigation control
Scenario 3 – Navigation completely disabled until all objects are clicked
Scenario 4 – A personalized and customized course based on a personality assessment
Scenario 5 – A personalized and customized course based on a pretest
Recommended voices for text-to-speech tasks
Scripting with VTML tags in Text-to-speech projects
How to improve the quality of audio in text-to-speech projects

Product Details

BN ID:	2940013946347
Publisher:	Wayne Pascall
Publication date:	02/15/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	198
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Wayne has a background as an instructional technologist, instructional designer and Captivate developer. Wayne also freelances as an artist, musician and writer. He holds Bachelor degrees in Psychology and Human Resources, with a Master of Science in Instructional Technology. His favorite past time activities include Sci-Fi movies, reading, teaching, swimming, hapkido and creative activities such as drawing, painting with Acrylics, composing music, recording music and writing.