From the course: Captivate 8: Mobile and Responsive Design

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Working with the mouse

Working with the mouse

- When you create a software simulation with Captivate, Captivate records the mouse movements you make on the screen, and can also insert text captions, highlight boxes and more, for you automatically. And to make sure your project is HTML5 compatible, there's just a few tiny details to mention about the mouse object as it moves around the screen. And here's a software simulation that I recorded using Captivate, which shows me moving my mouse around The Landon Hotel website, and clicking on different things. So here's the small thing to note about the mouse object on the stage. Here on slide one, I'm going to select the mouse on the stage, I'm going to open up my timeline and my properties as well. Now in the properties panel, there are a number of options related to the mouse that come up. If you haven't seen these, you can look through them and check them out. Most are pretty self-explanatory. The one to watch out for is this item down here near the bottom, Show Mouse Click, and…

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