Chapter 12. Using MenuBuilder to Link Movies

MenuBuilder enables you to break complex demonstrations into user-friendly, stand-alone movies that are linked to each other. One of the best ways of dealing with complexity is from a position of simplicity. New Media developers, for example, can break complex projects into manageable chunks that, when combined, form the final project. It is no different in Captivate and MenuBuilder.

Imagine you have to demonstrate how to create a new site in Dreamweaver MX 2004. This requires you to capture a movie that:

• Captures the variety of screens, text input, and mouse clicks required to define a new site using Dreamweaver's New Site Wizard.

• Demonstrates how to use the Advanced Site Definition feature of Dreamweaver.

The result, due to the linear nature of a Captivate movie, will be a rather long movie that walks the user through the process of defining a new Dreamweaver site. However, it does not enable the user to access precise areas of the movie. To learn how to enter the login information in the Advanced Site Definitions, the user must either click the through the movie using the playback controller or simply sit there and wait for the playback to arrive at the point in the movie they are looking for.