Active/Inactive text button

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April 24, 2007
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I use the text button feature to empower my users with a 'Next' naviagational button in some of my slides. For some reason, the presence of the text button interferes with the display of the other objects on my slide. Kindly explain the behavior of the active vs inactive text button.

Thanks,
M

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mm277Author

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Hi Rick,

Sorry to bug you again - when I deselect the 'pause after' option on the text button, the way it doesn't behave as desired on preview. Each slide displays the button for the entire time of the slide (Cntrl+E), but transitions to the next slide without the need to click on the Next button hence making it redundant.

Thanks,
M

Captiv8r

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Hi again

Oops, my bad. Indeed you are removing the pause. You will definitely need the pause there, eh? Sorry about that.

One thing you may wish to consider is using a Click Box object as opposed to a button. You could insert images that resemble buttons, then superimpose a Click Box object over them. Aside from working as invisible buttons, Click Box objects normally pause at the end of their configured time. Thus they don't have the "Active VS Inactive" thing going on. Instead, they are active the entire time until they pause the slide.

Maybe an option?

Cheers... Rick

M

mm277Author

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Hello,

Thanks for your reply. The suggestion surely makes sense. I will give it a try right away.

Cheers,
M

Captiv8r

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Hi M

Buttons and Click Boxes by their very nature Pause the slide until another action causes the movie to resume playing. The button is Active up to the Pause point. It then stops any action. Often, other objects haven't yet had time to make their appearance. Or, they have appeared and are beginning to fade out of view and get paused in mid-fade.

During the Active part of the timeline, the button may be clicked by your user, as it is "Active". Once something resumes playback and the playhead moves into the "Inactive" part, the button is visible, but cannot be clicked upon.

How's that? Make better sense? I hope it does.

Sincerely... Rick

M

mm277Author

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Dear Rick,

That was very well explained and made complete sense, thanks very much! In the case of using the text button as a Next button at the bottom-right corner of my slides, I don't need the inactive part of the button. It should stay active at all times, right? What can I do (besides painfully, manually dragging the partition betweeen active and inactive within the button) to make the button behave as Active only?

Cheers,
M

Captiv8r

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Hi M

One way to do this is to simply double-click the button to edit its properties. You then click the Options tab and DE-select the "Pause after" check box.

Here's the neat part. If you want the same behavior on all slides, you may copy the button to the Windows clipboard. Then select the remaining slides and Paste it to all of them at once. The button should be copied to the exact location it was copied from.

Hopefully this helps... Rick

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