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I truly enjoy what I do and I would hope anyone who finds the information, tools or applications I have developed and share here on my blog, useful. I do not charge anything to download and install these applications, however, I do graciously accept donations. Please use the button below to make a donation. Suggested donations are as follows: PowerPoint…

How to disable the Articulate Presenter Sidebar

Have you ever noticed when viewing a published Articulate Presenter presentation the sidebar links and buttons are still accessible even when the the display mode is set to exclude the sidebar? The pink area shown in the image below represents the visible area the end user sees when viewing a published presentation. When switching display modes, either manually or triggered…

How to display a transparent Flash Movie in the Articulate Presenter Panel

Did you know when a Flash Movie (.swf) is inserted into the Articulate Presenter panel, the Articulate publishing engine will apply a border and fill color behind the inserted movie. Typically, this is OK, but what if the movie inserted has a transparent background? I developed the makeMeTransparent actionscipt file that will remove the fill color applied by Articulate Presenter.…

The webOjectLockFix2.0 is done!

This is the new and improved version for the webOjectLockFix, and will now handled all published Presenter panels as shown in the image below; this includes all Engage and Quizmaker tabs and warning dialogs. The instructions for using this mod are the same as outlined in this link; for convenience I’ve copied them below. Unload/Reload the Web Object using my…

Working on webOjectLockFix2.0

After seeing there was a demand for the webOjectLockFix outline here, I thought I would take it a step further by adding some additional functionality. With the soon to be released webOjectLockFix2.0, the Articulate Presenter Bio/Email, Upper Toolbar (Attachments and other Tabs) and bottom Notes panel, will all unload the Web Object and reload when closed. I’m almost done with…

How to reveal content behind an Articulate Presenter Web Object

Did you know a Web Object inserted into Articulate Presenter actually sits above the published presentation player?  Because Flash doesn’t have the ability to embed html content, Articulate Presenter will use iframes in combination with CSS to overlay the Web Object seamlessly, with the Flash player window. Layering html documents is a creative solution to this Flash limitation. The image…