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Mastering Adobe Captivate 2019

You're reading from   Mastering Adobe Captivate 2019 Build cutting edge professional SCORM compliant and interactive eLearning content with Adobe Captivate

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789803051
Length 770 pages
Edition 5th Edition
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Dr. Pooja Jaisingh Dr. Pooja Jaisingh
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with Adobe Captivate 2019 FREE CHAPTER 2. Working with Standard Objects 3. Working with Multimedia 4. Working with the Timeline and Other Useful Tools 5. Developing Interactivity 6. Crafting the Graphical Experience with Styles and Themes 7. Working with Quizzes 8. Capturing Onscreen Action 9. Producing a Video Demo 10. Creating a Responsive Project 11. Creating Virtual Reality Projects 12. Using Captivate with Other Applications 13. Creating Accessible eLearning 14. Variables and Advanced Actions 15. Finishing Touches and Publishing 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating the pickMessages() function

In this section, you will create a JavaScript function that will randomly pick one message in each array and save it as a Captivate variable. Use the following steps to copy/paste the code into the JavaScript window that is currently open in Adobe Captivate: 

  1. Navigate to the Chapter14/js folder of the exercise files.
  2. Open the 02-pickMessages.js file in any text editor available on your system.
  3. Use the Ctrl + A (Windows) or the command + A (Mac) shortcut to select all the content of this file. 
  4. Use the Ctrl + C (Windows) or the command +C (Mac) shortcut to copy the content to the clipboard.
  5. Return to Captivate and paste the code (Ctrl + V on Windows/command + V on the Mac) in the empty JavaScript window after the code already present in the window.

The JavaScript window associated with the On Enter event of slide 1 should now look like what's shown in the following screenshot:

The code you just added to...

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