The Adobe Captivate widget updates continue. Here are the latest versions of ClosedCaptionsOn and ClosedCaptionsOff, a pair of widgets for turning closed captions on and off at any point in a slide’s timeline. Use ClosedCaptionsOn at the beginning of the first slide of any project to ensure that your closed captioning efforts don’t go unnoticed. [...]

I was fortunate enough to be on the beta team for Tristan Ward’s excellent new  WidgetFactory 5, which was released today. So, now I’m happy to bring you updated versions of my Adobe Captivate widgets, all of which make use of it. I’ll kick it off with PauseMeNow, a free widget which allows Adobe Captivate [...]

My first trip through grad school was in English, and my primary focus was literary theory. My second trip through was in educational technology. I enjoy theory and philosophy more than your average bear, but my approach to training development has always been a pragmatic, from-the-ground-up affair. I have a general distrust of buzzword-compliant theoretical [...]

I updated my Adobe Captivate 4 widgets to take advantage of the latest version (beta 1.2) of Infosemantics’ Widget Factory API. Here are the download links for the latest (v2) versions: PauseMeNow_AS3 (v2) ClosedCaptionsOn_AS3 (v2) and ClosedCaptionsOFF_AS3 (v2)

ClosedCaptionsOn and ClosedCaptionsOff are two ActionScript 3 widgets for Adobe Captivate. They allow developers to turn closed captioning on and off arbitrarily at any point in a slide. These were developed and tested in Captivate 4. I’ll be testing them in Captivate 5 as soon as I get a copy. [Update: This post links to [...]