Adobe Captivate 6.x Free Widget: Radio Buttons Enhanced

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Radio Buttons Enhanced Widget

This is the stock Adobe Captivate 6.x widget with a few enhancements.  Use variables to control radio button selection with no user interaction.  Create custom quiz questions.

Live Demo

Requirements

  • Publish for Flash Player 9 or above.
  • For swf/htm output only, not HTML5 compatible.
  • Adobe Captivate 6.x
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Persistence

If you need to persist the selected value in the radio button widget, you can use the free Time Based Actions Widget to ensure that the chosen value remains selected even when navigating between slides.

Persistence Live Demo Download Sample Project

Posted on September 16, 2012 by in All Widgets, Captivate 6.x, Free Widgets

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  • Rick

    Hi Jim. I’m just wondering if you’re having issues with this widget since the latest Captivate 6 patch was released too? It has worked for me previously…but now I’m getting a ‘Not a valid widget’ error when inserting it into a project.

  • Rick

    Hi, sorry ignore the last post – I’ve inserted into a blank project and it works fine. My project decided it wanted to play silly buggers with me for a while.

  • Sreekanth

    Hi Jim, when I define more than four options, it is not visible on the slide. Any idea how to resolve this issue?

    • Sreekanth

      Hi Jim,
      I found the solution in a comment for the earlier version of this widget. Thanks.

  • Krishna

    Hi Jim,
    When radio button or checkbox possible answers are lengthy, then the text is wrapping in to the next line. If I increase the width of the widget then the radio button becomes very big. Any suggestions on how to resolve this issue?
    Thanks,
    Krishna

    • http://twitter.com/CaptivatePro CaptivateDev.com

      @Krishna: Unfortunately not. This widget is the stock radio button widget that comes with Captivate… with a few tweaks. I’d have to rewrite the widget from scratch in order to fix those issues.

  • harold bradley

    I have a question.

    Will this widget turn the radio button on and off from one project to another?

    I have a project that has one slide that starts the course the students click a link on that page which takes them to another project. Would it be possible to have a button on the fist page get turned on as the student click the last page of the second project.

    Something like the markings which you can turn on in the TOC, but like i said it would have to make the mark in another swf file.

    project 1

    project 2 project 3 project 4

    project2-1 project 3-1 project 4-1

    All projects would report back to project 1

    Thanks for any help.

    • http://twitter.com/CaptivatePro CaptivateDev.com

      Not out of the box. But you could program this with JavaScript and iframes.

      • harold bradley

        Thanks for the information.

  • Steve

    Hi Jim,
    I need to retain the radio button selection between slides. When I make my selection the radio button assign a value to a variable correctly. Then I change the slide, go back in the prevous slide with the widget and, even if the variable still have the right value, the radio button show not selection, they are all deselected. Any suggestion?

    Thanks a lot

    • http://twitter.com/CaptivatePro CaptivateDev.com

      @Steve : I’ve updated the post to include an example of how you could persist the chosen selection in the radio button widget even when navigating between slides:

      http://captivatedev.com/2012/09/16/adobe-captivate-6-x-free-widget-radio-buttons-enhanced/

      • Steve

        What a man! Thanks Jim, with your example I understood where I wrong. Basicly I was doing the same things but the advanced actions was called by “on enter” so it fails to work.

        Also I see that the time based action widget have to be positioned in the timeline after the radiobutto widget, otherwise it doesn’t work.

        Thanks again Jim!

  • Steve

    Hi again Jim, just a fast question about your great widgets:

    do you think it’s easy to add an option into your widgets radiobuttons and checkboxes so that when clicked, it execute an advanced action?

    Thanks

    • http://twitter.com/CaptivatePro CaptivateDev.com

      @Steve : It’s not easy to execute an advanced action when a radio button is selected and I have no plans to add that functionality.