![]() ![]() I’ve also seen a restaurant using tablets for the servers to take guest orders. I’ve been observing these workers using a variety of different tablets and in some cases even larger smartphones. For example, you might see appliance repair persons, telecom installers and various others using laptops for managing what was traditionally done with pen, paper and clipboards. In the early 2000s when the price of laptops came down, we started seeing remote workers using laptops. I know that some eLearning designer-developers downplay the importance of responsive design, but look around at some of the remote workers and see what equipment they are using. With a mobile device on the same Wi-Fi network as your computer, you point your camera at your screen, and the course magically launches on your device. Thankfully now I will have access to Live Preview on Devices, a new preview method in Captivate 2019 that displays a QR code on your computer screen. With all the iterations of each module and a total of about two dozen modules, this was time-consuming. Every time I wanted to test a version of one of the modules, I needed to publish it for HTML5, upload the published course to my web server, email myself the URL so I could pick it up on my iPad and then launch the course. No problem for me because I have an iPad. This organisation doesn’t use computers, but each location has several iPads for a variety of purposes including training. This next improvement isn’t an improvement to fluid boxes, but I sure could have used it earlier this year when designing a series of modules for a client whose target device was iPads. You can align the Static Fluid Box any number of ways both horizontally and vertically. Fortunately, with Captivate 2019 you can now choose a custom alignment for Static fluid boxes. It wasn’t always what I had in mind with my design. In Captivate 2017 the Static Fluid Box would always remain centered within the area for that Fluid Box. This means that as you shrink from one screen size to another, the content in a Static Fluid Box always shrinks with it. As we now know, Static Fluid Boxes have to maintain their aspect ratio. However, if you need your content to overlap, or require additional state objects, you need a Static Fluid Box. Regular Fluid Boxes are great when your content is side by side. I think my favourite improvement to fluid boxes in Captivate 2019 is the ability to align Static Fluid Boxes. This works well when I’ve resized something by accident. Adobe has provided a simple button to distribute these object equally. For example, a Fluid Box dedicated to slide titles or navigation controls.Īnother improvement that we’ve been asking for is the ability to correct for misaligned or improperly distributed objects within a fluid box, or for that matter wrongly distributed fluid boxes within a parent fluid box. This is useful when you have a Fluid Box that serves the same purpose on many different slides in your project. From there you can type in a percentage or pixel count, and you’re done. I’m pleased to report that with Captivate 2019 you can select the Fluid Boxes to resize them to a precise number of pixels or percentage by selecting the Fluid Box and navigating over to your Position panel. Even using Rulers and Guides this was a difficult task of precisely setting up Fluid Boxes of an exact size. Resizing Fluid Boxes was done by using the blue selection handles and dragging your mouse. For me, the main thing was resizing of Fluid Boxes. ![]() However, I felt like some aspects needed improvement. ![]() When Fluid Boxes were launched in Captivate 2017 Release, I was pleased with this approach to responsive design. ![]()
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